A cracking way to start a Tuesday morning - thank you. And yes, everyone who possibly can should watch Watchmen. It's truly stunning - never lets you drift into thinking you know what's going to happen next, but keeps you hooked at the same time.
You don't need to have read the comics or seen the Snyder version (I hadn't), or be a fan of Alan Moore (problematic but undeniably influential). Any attempt to describe the plot would spiral horribly and just put people off - alternate history, the Tulsa Massacre (which you've probably never hear of), super beings with whacky powers, squid falling from the skies, etc. Give it time, and it comes together - somehow saying more about America, its relationship with the past, and with power, than any more worthy effort could. And while it's doing that there are delights and gut punches galore, propelled by a superb cast (Regina King, Don Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jeremy Irons the standouts). Cannot recommend it highly enough.
I too would have told Rufus Sewell what his Middlemarch performance meant to me. There’s a scene where he gets angry/upset that I used to rewind and play back a LOT. (And let’s not dwell on the fact that Dorothea and Ladislaw actually only talk a handful of times.)
A cracking way to start a Tuesday morning - thank you. And yes, everyone who possibly can should watch Watchmen. It's truly stunning - never lets you drift into thinking you know what's going to happen next, but keeps you hooked at the same time.
You don't need to have read the comics or seen the Snyder version (I hadn't), or be a fan of Alan Moore (problematic but undeniably influential). Any attempt to describe the plot would spiral horribly and just put people off - alternate history, the Tulsa Massacre (which you've probably never hear of), super beings with whacky powers, squid falling from the skies, etc. Give it time, and it comes together - somehow saying more about America, its relationship with the past, and with power, than any more worthy effort could. And while it's doing that there are delights and gut punches galore, propelled by a superb cast (Regina King, Don Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jeremy Irons the standouts). Cannot recommend it highly enough.
I too would have told Rufus Sewell what his Middlemarch performance meant to me. There’s a scene where he gets angry/upset that I used to rewind and play back a LOT. (And let’s not dwell on the fact that Dorothea and Ladislaw actually only talk a handful of times.)
“telling him how “formative” his performance in the 1994 Middlemarch had been.”
Oh.
Oh no.
Bruv…
Let it never be said you aren’t brave