{"id":634,"date":"2009-03-14T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=634"},"modified":"2009-03-16T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T18:00:17","slug":"how-not-to-watch-the-watchmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/how-not-to-watch-the-watchmen\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Watch the Watchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t make the mistake of re-reading the book before seeing the movie.  You&#8217;ll get too distracted by the things added and removed from the flick.  I would have enjoyed it more if I went in with only a vague memory of the book.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping for a great movie.  Instead, I got a pretty good movie.<\/p>\n<p>It inspired me to name my next rock band &#8220;Dangling Blue Wang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change, of course, is the ending.  Sorry fan-boys, but the movie ending is <em>better <\/em>than the book.  It was true to the spirit of the story (I was afraid they were going to do this with a happy ending) and tied everything together better than the original comic did.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re a real fan-boy, if you just can&#8217;t handle the new ending, I&#8217;d suggest seeing the movie and then going out for some calamari.  But it has to be great calamari.  Mind blowing calamari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t make the mistake of re-reading the book before seeing the movie. You&#8217;ll get too distracted by the things added and removed from the flick. I would have enjoyed it more if I went in with only a vague memory of the book. I was hoping for a great movie. Instead, I got a pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}