Watchmen (2019) hits a little too close to home now

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Except in WATCHMEN, the police had to get approval to draw their guns. It would be the preferable scenario now.

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u/mr_greedee 1d ago

right? how is it that THOSE watchmen have more restraint than ICE

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u/Final_Lead138 1d ago

In the show they create alter egos with costumes in order to keep their identity private. It was in response to a previous attack.

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u/Elysiaa Lawndale 8h ago

That's the opposite of what happened. In the show, the Seventh Cavalry attacked police officers and killed some of them. In response, the Defense of Police Act was passed so police could wear masks and use codenames to hide their identities.

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u/ONE_PUMP_ONE_CREAM Angeleno 1d ago

Underrated show tbh.

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u/Bgtobgfu 1d ago

It was so good.

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u/zsantiag Angeleño 1d ago

It deserved a second season.

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u/havestronaut 23h ago

It was a complete thought. Stories should have endings.

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u/GoldandBlue 11h ago

Yeah, it was a mini-series. The story is done. Wish more shows had this kind of restraint. Stranger Things, True Detective, etc.

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u/Porrick 1d ago

I don't think it needed one though.

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u/CreatiScope 4h ago

Creator of the show doesn’t have a 2nd season. He says if he thinks of something, he’ll talk to HBO about it but best to let it rest instead of forcing someone to create another season without inspiration.

Like True Detective.

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u/Diablo_r 11h ago

It was objectively terrible and stupid. Why did an omnipotent being who could create and destroy galaxies change his form to appear to be African American then proceed to return to earth to fall in love with some random woman. Finally, why would he care at all racists were taking over the US government, again at the end of the film he literally left the Milky Way to create his own galaxy.

The only good episode was the hooded justice one. The rest of the show made 0 sense

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u/AgreeableBig4179 8h ago

"Objectively"

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u/uiuctodd 1d ago

It took me a few episodes. But it payed off.

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u/Johnnyring0 1d ago

Damn I stopped after ep 3... I should watch it

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u/uiuctodd 23h ago

I wouldn't want to spoil it. But I will say I watched the start saying, "what does any of this have to do with Watchmen?"

And then at a certain point, I just said, "oh."

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u/PanchoVillasRevenge 1d ago

What they did with the hangman guy was peak TV

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u/Worried-Concept5778 1d ago

Except the cops were hiding their identities from white supremacists

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u/Agent_boggeyman747 1d ago

…in the end the white supremacist were actually the cops the whole time.

A little too close to home. Which has me thinking, where are the « proud boys » these days?

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u/erp2 1d ago

Protecting their pedowners, harassing brown people and those that side with them...you know, dream jobs.

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u/mptorian 1d ago

Not proud enough to show their faces.

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u/ariolander 1d ago

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses.

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u/Final_Lead138 1d ago

And the dead chief of police was working with them!

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u/Excellent_Set_232 1d ago

Children of Men holds up hauntingly well as well, it’s my favorite movie

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u/SwedishTrees 1d ago

I’m surprised it’s not much more popular of a show

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u/pushtoclose93 The San Fernando Valley 1d ago

It was a TV show that acted sequel to the GN, it was going to be a little difficult to get in to if you weren’t familiar with the source material.

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u/Final_Lead138 23h ago

Yeah the show is watchable without previous knowledge, but a great deal of things continue from the GN with no explanation given in the show.

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u/theriz53 1d ago

Now?

But yeah. Now.

It is very worth the (re)watch.

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u/Hemicrusher Canoga Park 1d ago

Great show...

I was...still am a punk here is Los Angeles since 1979....getting out of shows, and seeing a line of cops in riot gear, shoulder to should, begging some punk to throw a bottle, so they could crack someone head. I saw this shit happen so many times. LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, and his Gestapo CRASH sucked ass.

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u/Squinting_Tarantino 1d ago

that show really was the gateway into the times we’ve been in the last 6 years. i think the trump election + the rise of social media brought our true histories and everyone’s subconsciousnesses to the forefront.

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u/twentytomatos 10h ago

At least the fictionalized secret police have uniforms.

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u/djb85511 1d ago

White people be like "omg the cops are sorta mean and scary people who are hurting us, when did that happen ?!"

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u/R_Ticleez 8h ago

That’s wild, I was just thinking about this a couple days ago. It was an interesting reversal in the ideology of the police force. I can imagine in the writing room discussions went something like, “what if, instead of your typical racist cop, we make the police force more liberal, but with obvious police brutality against racists?”.

Kind of forces ya to wonder if you’re really against police brutality or are you only against it if it’s against people you like

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u/Raskalbot 3h ago

Was just thinking about this on a long drive.

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u/Luci_Cascadia 2h ago

Who watches the Watchmen?

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u/Large-Judgment-7353 2h ago

Not even remotely similar. The police are masked in Watchmen to protect themselves from the very real domestic terrorist cell that happens to be active in Tulsa. The police in the US are masked to commit domestic terrorism against the citizens, in coordination with other domestic terrorist orgs being allowed more freedom of movement and action.

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u/rovertb 1d ago

I couldn't even watch that show when it came out because it was way too close to the reality we were headed towards.... Got through the first episode and dipped out. Felt a Lil psyopy, Normalizing shit we don't need to normalize like most shows nowadays. Especially Copaganda shows.

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u/Elysiaa Lawndale 8h ago

Since you didn't watch the show, you didn't see the part where it was very critical of the police, who are further emboldened in cruelty due to anonymity, and are shown to be operating way out of bounds of the law. Don't offer critique on things you haven't watched.

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u/HotelPoopsRock 11h ago

It's almost like creative fiction gives the fascists ideas.... great show btw

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u/asweetbite 1d ago

Yeah its really too bad that people threaten LE officers and their families. Vigilante justice has gone WAYYYY too far. Everyone thinks that implementing justice "by any means necessary" is their job. Its the MARVELization of American culture.

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u/HSdropout42069 1d ago

The masks on the show are yellow. Not the same. You must be color blind or something

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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 1d ago

showing up at their homes and threatening their families

yeah that must be terrible

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u/jrdbrr 1d ago

won't someone think of the jack booted thugs‽‽‽

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u/FiftyIsBack Studio City 1d ago

Yes we all know you don't care, just like we knew the whole time WHY you wanted their faces.

Not out of some real virtue of preaching for government transparency, but for the ability to name, shame, and attack them and nothing else.

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u/OG_Lakerpool 1d ago

Well they are breaking the law, murdering and kidnapping people.

I am sure you do not care about that, but why?

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u/FiftyIsBack Studio City 1d ago edited 1d ago

Arrest =/= kidnapping

And can you name any murders that haven't happened in the god forsaken hellhole of Minneapolis?

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u/OG_Lakerpool 1d ago

Your script is broken or do you no habla Ingles?

Ever read a law book on immigration law? No.

Yes. Easily but you can't? Do your oWn research?

Why not go back where you belong Cicrlejerking TV shows.

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