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Great idea for a competition!
I only got the first two. Are you sure the last one is Judge Death Lives? I thought it was The Judge Child

Hmmmm, 'Judge Death Lives'. That's a bit rich, isn't it?

That is -- however -- a very minor niggle.

That's racist.

And plenty of clueless parents brought their young kids

It's a fucking adult rated movie. Clueless is the word - you can't blame a film for cinemagoers being stupid.

There were so many disgusting, violent, morbid, grisly scenes and acts of killing, I had to start writing them down, lest I forget.

Yep, always best to keep a record of what outrages you in case you don't remember to be outraged. Fool.

But just because shameless whores and crack dealers of Hollywood deal this stuff out, doesn't mean you have to buy it and poison your kids' minds with it

 The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

silly voiced, silly costumed goons wandering around pretending this stuff is serious.

I think that was pretty much one of the points Alan Moore was trying to make, and that a lot of the characters realise in the graphic novel that that is all their role is as costumed crimefighters.

That's racist.

Now that's more like it, young man.

So did your FACE.

No, no, no, it should be so HAS your face, given that the clause that prompted it is in the present perfect.
Ahem. (Pushes glasses up nose).

My brother's ex was an English teacher and found the abbreviation 'LOL' in a few essays. They'll be naming their kids 'k8' next.

Bananaman totally lost his edge in the transition from page to screen.

True - I was a reader of Nutty, and would have expected a Scorscese-directed three-hour-long grim and gritty 18-cert masterpiece.  He wouldn't have missed out the bits where Eric Wimp is kicked around like a football at school on a daily basis, thus destroying his already-fragile childhood self-esteem.

Haven't seen it yet but may I ask some interim questions?

Is the news stand as central if at all there?

Are there any 80's songs in the film?

Is Jimi's "all along the watchtower" in it?

Yes you may.
It's there but not half as central.
Yes, including one 80's classic about nuclear war. In German.
Yes.

Just resurrecting this thread to ask a question inspired by reading the new Viz. Here goes:
Can your hair really turn white as a result of getting a fright or shock?

But that big blue mickey put me to shame

Excellent! I personally feel the word mickey isn't used half as much as it should be.

As for Rorschach's voice, it's pretty much how I imagined Rorschach's voice to be. And I really don't imagine Rorschach has this accent:

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FS60iN0g2I

No, this is the comic which found a a smiley face on Mars

The weird thing was, Alan Moore didn't even know there was a real smiley face on Mars when he wrote that bit. He found out afterwards.  Crazy shit right there

All this talk of Watchmen has just made me realise something i never noticed before; i.e. the irony of Veidt calling himself Ozymandias. In the P.B. Shelley poem, the famous line about 'Gaze at my works, ye mighty, and despair' is clearly ironic, considering it's written on the single leg of what used to be a mighty statue of the leader of what used to be a mighty kingdom, but what is now a 'bare and boundless' desert.
[spoiler]So, just like the real Ozymandias, Veidt's mighty empire is fragile and ephemeral, ready to be toppled, wiped out completely and forgotten (such as if that hand in the final frame should grasp Rorschach's journal).[/spoiler]
 
sorry if i'm preaching to the converted but I've only just realised that. I read it first when I was about 21 and not nearly as smart as i thought i was, i didn't even cop that [spoiler]Rorschach was the doomsayer[/spoiler] till the second reading.  It  also took me a look at the internet to realise the Robert Redford joke, and the fact that Nixon was president in it went over my head the first time round too.

Crap, forgot about Halo Jones! I'll put it in after Dredd, edging BAD company out, but the last one was gash anyway

...the Irish government think that sending all drunk people out of pubs at the same (early) time will improve the problem of angry drunk people on the streets.

But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."

Oaf. I thnk i could dream up some far, far greater pains for him if he'd ever like to call round and put his life into perspective.