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"Watchmen" Fanatic Derangement Syndrome... (Debbie Schlussel responds to critics)
debbieschlussel.com ^ | March 5, 2009 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 03/05/2009 11:55:58 AM PST by EveningStar

I guess I shouldn't be amazed at the number of slacker ignoramuses who are up in arms about my frank review cutting down the absolute crap they worship a/k/a "The Watchmen", coming out in theaters late tonight. The e-mails they send me and the comments they make about how "deep," "edgy" and "profound" this vile piece of trash (which is none of these) reminds me of the blind statements of followers of Jim Jones. And we all know what happened after they drank he purple Kool-Aid. If only this movie could achieve that result, it would be the most fantastic exercise in natural selection ever conducted in America.

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KEYWORDS: culturewar; debbieschlussel; fanboys; gibberish; hollyweird; ignorance; postmodernism; rant; vilepieceoftrash; watchmen
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1 posted on 03/05/2009 11:55:59 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: a fool in paradise; al baby; Allegra; Berlin_Freeper; BJClinton; Borges; Brad's Gramma; ...
Take a valium, Debbie.

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2 posted on 03/05/2009 11:57:11 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I plan to see it tomorrow.


3 posted on 03/05/2009 11:58:15 AM PST by Enterprise (A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
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To: EveningStar

yah...I’m bettin’ you didn’t think much of Harry Potter, either...


4 posted on 03/05/2009 12:01:17 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: EveningStar

For that last time, it wasn’t Kool-Aid!! It was poisoned Flavor Aid.


5 posted on 03/05/2009 12:04:23 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: EveningStar

“Take a valium, Debbie. “

Or at least switch to decaf. My God, you would think she is talking about war, poverty and death, not some movie.


6 posted on 03/05/2009 12:07:08 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: EveningStar

Her signal to noise ratio approaches zero.


7 posted on 03/05/2009 12:08:11 PM PST by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: EveningStar

If nothing else, the article is remarkable for containing two words I’ve never seen in this order:

“Poor Hitler.”


8 posted on 03/05/2009 12:15:01 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: freedumb2003

I usual agree on some level with this woman but she needs to lighten up on the perpetual outrage.


9 posted on 03/05/2009 12:16:27 PM PST by Callahan
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To: Pyro7480

LOL.


10 posted on 03/05/2009 12:18:01 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: freedumb2003

She’s only one critic. Once in a blue moon, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin miss their marks and they get theirs from the free-thinkers. It’s unfortunate because she’s got a nice rac..I mean, it must be a blonde moment for her.


11 posted on 03/05/2009 12:18:05 PM PST by max americana
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To: Callahan

Oh yeah. The idea that every cultural artifact should be appropriate for children is just asinine.


12 posted on 03/05/2009 12:18:37 PM PST by Borges
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From her review:

“If this move is “conservative,” who the heck needs liberal?”

That was my impression of “Dark Knight” also.

[ducking..]


13 posted on 03/05/2009 12:18:46 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: EveningStar

DEBBIE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD: (As far as I am concerned)!


14 posted on 03/05/2009 12:18:58 PM PST by JSDude1 (R(epublicans) In Name Only SUCK; D(emocrats) In Name Only are worth their weight..)
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To: Enterprise

Well, what can I say, enjoy the numerous glimpses of glowing blue penis.


15 posted on 03/05/2009 12:19:00 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: EveningStar

I say good for her.


16 posted on 03/05/2009 12:20:19 PM PST by beandog
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To: Enterprise

I’m intrigued too.


17 posted on 03/05/2009 12:22:29 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar; Mojave
I particularly enjoyed this comment left below the article. Ouch!

You are absolutely insufferable. How dare you insult people who just happen to have different tastes than you. Who the hell made your opinion the be all/end all of opinions? Get off your moral high-horse and write about something you're familiar with, which from the looks of your articles, isn't much.

I enjoyed Watchmen. I am not depraved. I am not a serial killer. I am not a violent person in any sense of the word. I have a good high-paying job (my screen name hints at what I do for a living), am well educated, and I don't PASS JUDGMENT on people who enjoy different hobbies.

I am spreading the word to all that I know that you are a pathetic hate-tank. A hack Ann Coulter wanna-be. At least Ann Coulter has some charisma and a sense of humor. You are a slimy, pathetic loser who seems to have so little self-esteem that you personally insult those with even the slightest difference of opinion.

You give Conservatives a bad name, you judgmental blow-hard. And yes, I made this personal, because YOU made it personal.

Posted by: doc at March 5, 2009 02:59 PM


18 posted on 03/05/2009 12:23:10 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Pyro7480

Yea, these false statments are giving Kool-Aid a bad name.


19 posted on 03/05/2009 12:23:56 PM PST by jaydubya2
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
"Well, what can I say, enjoy the numerous glimpses of glowing blue penis."

I read about this on another thread. I still plan to see the movie. Thanks for the "heads up."

20 posted on 03/05/2009 12:23:59 PM PST by Enterprise (A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
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To: Constitution Day

She was just looking for some attention.


21 posted on 03/05/2009 12:25:28 PM PST by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: JSDude1
Do you think depicting something fictionally is a defacto endorsement? Macbeth endorses murder, Lolita endorses pederasty and so forth?
22 posted on 03/05/2009 12:25:37 PM PST by Borges
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To: Enterprise

I might see the movie.

Except, with three young children, I rarely get to see any movie.


23 posted on 03/05/2009 12:27:13 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: EveningStar
Well, my 15 and 16 year olds aren't going: Rated R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language
24 posted on 03/05/2009 12:27:34 PM PST by bobsatwork
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To: EveningStar

At least Debbie has the sense to be outraged and angry at the state of our “culture.”

And perhaps, just perhaps, there is a connection between the state of our souls, the state of our culture, and the state of our politics.


25 posted on 03/05/2009 12:29:13 PM PST by mojito
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To: mojito

Are you offended by the sex and violence in Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy? Or in D.H. Lawrence?


26 posted on 03/05/2009 12:31:09 PM PST by Borges
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To: EveningStar

If anyone is a fanatic, it’s this slobbering twit. Too much bleach in her hair dye apparently.


27 posted on 03/05/2009 12:31:36 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
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To: Constitution Day

You enjoyed that comment because it’s such a cartoonish self-parody?

“You are absolutely insufferable....

“...I don’t PASS JUDGMENT on people who enjoy different hobbies.

“...you are a pathetic hate-tank...a slimy, pathetic loser who seems to have so little self-esteem that you personally insult those with even the slightest difference of opinion.”

Well.. at least he doesn’t PASS JUDGMENT on people!


28 posted on 03/05/2009 12:32:31 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: EveningStar

Memo to Debbie: take a deep breath, relax. It is just a movie.


29 posted on 03/05/2009 12:32:52 PM PST by ChurtleDawg (voting only encourages them)
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To: EveningStar

Fact: Japanese children regularly encounter depictions of rape, slaughter, mayhem, war, dismemberment, disfigurement, homosexuality, transsexuality, people having sex with aliens, robots, and tentacle monsters, and much worse in their entertainment media. Yet few grow up to practice these things. I wonder why?


30 posted on 03/05/2009 12:34:43 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: bobsatwork
16... maybe. 15, no way. Depends on how level headed your kids are.

Err on the side of caution though. Too many idiot parents are going to bring their kids to see this as it is...

My wife and I are planning on seeing it in IMax. Not for the big blue penis, but for the story line. I wouldn't mind seeing Malin Akerman (Silk Specter II) nekkid either... ;-)

31 posted on 03/05/2009 12:37:03 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
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To: EveningStar

Hey, Debbie, hyperbole much?


32 posted on 03/05/2009 12:37:47 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: B-Chan
I wonder why?

They are dealing with declining birth rates and skyrocketing suicide rates though. Could that be the trade off?

33 posted on 03/05/2009 12:38:44 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
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To: B-Chan

The Japanese are also close to extinction because they are not real-sexual enough to procreate a new generation.


34 posted on 03/05/2009 12:40:23 PM PST by bvw
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To: B-Chan

Oh, btw, you got your Monarch now, just how well do you like Emperor Obama?


35 posted on 03/05/2009 12:41:35 PM PST by bvw
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To: EveningStar

News headline: Comic Book Geeks Pwned by Strident Blonde Hottie.


36 posted on 03/05/2009 12:43:53 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Borges
Are you seriously comparing Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to the latest “entertainment” from Hollywood?

Are you really asserting that Watchmen has any artistic or aesthetic merit?

When Oedipus blinds himself after committing years of incest, is the audience titillated? And why didn't Sophocles depict the incest itself? That would have been very titillating indeed.

It's very convenient to lump it all together: One murder in a work of art, say Crime and Punishment, is just the same as a murder in the latest teen sex slayer film.

I gather you actually endorse that view.

It sounds to me as though Watchmen is an orgy of gruesomeness served up to delight those how enjoy carnage for carnage's sake, who enjoy vivid depictions of cruelty and savagery as a kind of light entertainment.

You see nothing morally or culturally corrosive about this.

I beg to differ.

37 posted on 03/05/2009 12:44:38 PM PST by mojito
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To: bvw; B-Chan

Oh, good grief, don’t pick on the guy because he’s a monarchist. Obama is about as far as from his ideal as you can get.


38 posted on 03/05/2009 12:45:21 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480

A King is a King. You want an Ideal? Fantasy!


39 posted on 03/05/2009 12:46:02 PM PST by bvw
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To: Borges

To compare this to Shakespeare or any classic literature is a BIG stretch.


40 posted on 03/05/2009 12:46:05 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: EveningStar
You don't realize you're still just as dumb, you're IQ just as low and probably lower.

Deb, you might want to watch your spelling, grammar and punctuation when you're expounding on the low intelligence of others.

41 posted on 03/05/2009 12:46:24 PM PST by Sloth (The tree of liberty desperately needs watering.)
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To: EveningStar

It’s really nice how she starts off with the insults to make sure we know she’s discarded logic. Saves us the trouble of having to read the rest.


42 posted on 03/05/2009 12:46:58 PM PST by razorboy
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To: mojito
A great film is a work of Art no different in how it should be considered than a great novel or play. I'm not defending this film per se because I haven't seen it. But neither have you. I have the graphic novel. Which was quite serious in intent and certainly not ‘titillating’
43 posted on 03/05/2009 12:47:05 PM PST by Borges
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To: bvw

Why don’t you read the rest of his profile instead of carping about that one thing?


44 posted on 03/05/2009 12:47:14 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Enterprise

My husband is taking me to see it tomorrow. But I am really holding out for “Terminator Salvation”. I am not so interested in the Wolverine flick.


45 posted on 03/05/2009 12:47:40 PM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!! I am no LEMMING!)
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To: EveningStar
trashy

Oooh, I like trashy. Maybe I should see this.

46 posted on 03/05/2009 12:47:45 PM PST by colorado tanker (Oh my God, am I hoping for change.)
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To: Pyro7480

Oh, ruffled your feathers too? Just when do adults stop bragging on comics to the point of not taking legitimate criticism?


47 posted on 03/05/2009 12:49:21 PM PST by bvw
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To: Dead Corpse

Nope. The Italians, Germans, and Russians have the same demographic problem — not enough babies. If it weren’t for illegals, it would be the same here in the USA.


48 posted on 03/05/2009 12:55:04 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: bvw

So he’s a monarchist. Why did you bring that up in the first place? It’s just asinine.


49 posted on 03/05/2009 12:55:21 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: bvw

LOL


50 posted on 03/05/2009 12:55:29 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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