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...ROAD TO HELL?...
...Watchmen” has always been the legacy of its inspiration, the classic 1986-7 graphic novel written by Alan Moore. Moore, who deliberately divorces himself from all film adaptations of his works—including “V for Vendetta” and “From Hell??—left a daunting task for eager filmmakers. Any worthy onscreen adaptation would need to capture the gritty depth and scope that have made the book so influential, while preserving the pace and stylistic flair of a thriller.In conveying the book’s events...
...disgusting fear.” It has become a landscape “where Russia’s expansionism and Europe’s spirit went to war,” and one that has anticlimatically subsided into an achromatic wasteland. To Vargalas, Vilnius is the worst kind of hell??an inferno devoid of flames and full instead of gray—made in the likeness of its own architects, “Them.” “They” are the silent, gray majority of shapeless shadow beings that are inexorably draining Lithuanian life...
Sadly, the album manages to get much worse than this. “The King of Hell?? is shockingly bad, coming off as closer to “Flight of the Conchords” than Bob Dylan. “Saint Isabelle” also offers plenty of unwilling comedy. Its chorus, “I will always stand beside you, defend you and mend you, sanctify you,” might have seemed romantic in 13th-century France, but anyone born since then will recognize it as ridiculous...
...Town break into song, and you are suddenly reminded of how truly eccentric Tim Burton is. Extra points if you can sing along. 2. Every time you’re reminded of a costume from Currier’s “Heaven ‘n’ Hell?? party. 3. Every time the scientist makes inappropriate sexual advances towards Sally. 4. Every time the mayor changes from his happy face to his concerned face. And also spin in a circle. Try not to fall down. 5. Every time Sally detaches one of her limbs in order...