Watching The Watchmen Watchers 06: The Original Numbers, Reviews Hitting

* numbers guru John Jackson Miller looks at the original DM figures for the Watchmen comic book series.

* the retailer, reviewer and industry advocate Brian Hibbs reviews the movie. I can't think of anyone seeing an advance screening who won't have seen their advance screening by the end of today.

* so I guess Lee Iacocca's people are dismayed to hear that the former Chrysler head gets aced in the movie.

* the cartoonist Evan Dorkin has no interest in seeing the movie. I sympathize in that I have problems wanting to go see any movie, for the simple fact that I'm afraid I'm going to flip out with rage and murder all the people talking during the film. I cut teenagers and kids slack, because I was a teenager and kid once (not at the same time), but no one old enough to be interested in seeing Frost/Nixon should be talking all the way through the damn movie unless they want me to set them on fire. Filmgoers of America, I hate you for talking and I hate you for turning me into Andy Rooney.

* finally, here's the Rotten Tomatoes page by which you can track the positivity or negativity of emerging reviews in aggregate. It seems strongly positive so far, but I don't know enough about the way reviewers break down to know any possible caveats. I mean, I know I don't recognize many of the names of reviewers involved, but I don't know if that means anything. Update: Tucker Stone just wrote in to suggest that not knowing many of the names of reviewers involved may indeed have an effect. If you click the top critics button on the page linked to above, you find critics and publications you've actually probably heard of, and the movie has gone 0 for 4 with them so far.
 
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