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...this, set to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'," is revealed in an opening-credits salvo that's among the zippiest, most thrilling assemblages in modern movies. The rest of Watchmen--which Zack Snyder, of 300 fame, directed from the wildly admired comic-book serial written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons--can't match this Mach 2 ride through alternative history. Nor is the movie likely to live up to the hype it and its source novel have generated. Derisive laughter was heard at a critics' screening, and a Hollywood Reporter review predicted that...
...When Snyder showed this four-minute sequence in New York last fall, Gibbons was in the audience and rose to say, cheerfully, "Didn't suck too bad." I'd go further, and say it's among the zippiest, most thrilling assemblages in modern movies, and the film's single great burst of creation and concision. Three times I've seen the credits sequence, and repeated viewings help harvest new goodies - like the few second showing Silhouette in bed, with another woman, murdered, and WHORES scrawled in blood on the walls in her bed (which is different, by the way, from...
...Incredibles has those characters, that heart. And after that poignant stretch of family dysfunction, the movie brings on its supervillain--Mr. I's onetime groupie Incrediboy, now the cunning, gadget-obsessed Syndrome (Jason Lee)--and explodes into the year's wittiest, zippiest adventure, with each knockout action sequence eclipsing the last and with echoes of '60s James Bond films and Fantastic Four comic books. But it's still unusual: in its length (nearly two hours), in its rating (PG for "action violence," a first for G-loving Pixar) and in its cast of human characters...
...even slicker, consumer-oriented spinoff. "When we started," Charney says, "there wasn't even Betamax. There weren't any satellites. Now everything is coming together. Video is the place where TV, newspapers and books and photography and movies really meet." Charney's vid mag, the zippiest of the small field, suggests some piquant possibilities for reaching a wider audience. If snappy visuals can make the rag trade look exciting, consider what video could do with show biz. Variety on video could be the Ed Sullivan Show of the 1980s...