March 2009
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Calibre Manages Your E-Book Collection
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By Jason Fitzpatrick, 3:00 PM on Sun Mar 15 2009, 9,984 views
Windows\Mac\Linux: If you’ve got a virtual pile of e-books but no good way to organize them, Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager, complete with Cover Flow-like looks and network sharing.
Whether or not you have a portable e-book reader, Calibre is packed...
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How to Survive Falling Through Ice
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By Adam Pash, 3:00 PM on Fri Mar 13 2009, 12,979 views
That frozen over pond you’ve been hiking over all winter is warming up, so do yourself a favor and check out Wired’s illustrated guide to survive falling through ice.
The guide is simple and direct, with four main steps and some sound advice for handling the...
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David Fincher's Animated Version of The Goon
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by Alex Billington
Last year during Comic-Con we announced that Eric Powell’s cult comic The Goon was being adapted into an animated feature film by none other than David Fincher. Although I’ve never personally read the comic, it seems like a pretty damn good cult comic, and I’m very interested in seeing how the movie will turn out. Well...
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Finally, Some Real Tron 2.0 Story Details Revealed
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by Alex Billington
Ever since Disney snuck in that awesome sneak peek at Comic-Con last year, we’ve been trying to figure out what the heck Tron 2.0 is all about. We know the basic premise, or at least some of the characters, including the original Flynn and original Tron, but what exactly is going on? A few months ago I started to try and piece together some of...
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Ridley Scott's Monopoly Movie All About Our...
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by Alex Billington
No matter how much I continue to hear about the Monopoly movie, I still feel like it’s all just a big hoax, created by Hollywood for no legitimate reason. I can’t really imagine that Ridley Scott, the man behind Alien and Blade Runner and Gladiator, would want to direct a movie based on a board game?! Oh, but he does, “I have to...
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Will Jon Favreau Direct The Avengers?
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by: Peter Sciretta
It’s no secret: Jon Favreau would love to helm an Avengers movie. He’s has gone on the record multiple times talking about the possibility. But after Marvel announced their overly ambitious release schedule, Favs was forced to admit that the production schedule would likely prevent him from doing so.
I would love to. Clearly I have stated that The Avengers would be...
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OutlookAttachView Lets You Save All File...
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Windows only: Email attachment searching utility OutlookAttachView has a killer feature: You can export or delete multiple attachments at once—so you can finally get your files out of your inbox.
Using the utility is extremely simple—just launch the executable and it will search through your Outlook profile for every attachment, though it might take a while if you have a large...
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A Brief Look at Watchmen’s Long Journey to the...
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Posted by Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 3, 2009
When I was fourteen years old, I read a graphic novel called “Watchmen.” At this point, it had already been published for over a decade. I came late to the game purely because I was only two years old when it was published originally - but when I got to it, I was hooked. I’ve...
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McG Wants Robert Patrick for Terminator 5
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by: Peter Sciretta
It seems to me that all the excitement over both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton’s potential involvement in Terminator Salvation has gotten McG a little cameo crazy. The director tells FearNet that he has an idea to cast Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in the potential sequel to Terminator Salvation.
“I like the idea...
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DisplayFusion 3.0 Manages Everything Across...
Downloads: DisplayFusion 3.0 Manages Everything Across Multi-Monitor Setups
By Jason Fitzpatrick, 6:30 AM on Tue Mar 3 2009, 25,393 views
Windows only: If you’re looking to manage windows and wallpapers on multiple monitors, it’s tough to go wrong with the reasonably priced, and recently updated, DisplayFusion.
We’ve...
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Screedbot: Animated Scrolling Typewriter Text...
Screedbot: Animated Scrolling Typewriter Text Generator
Screedbot lets you generate an animated GIF file with your own scrolling typewriter text. Just write some text into the field and press “Create Screed”. Modify image width, text colour, text font size and the background colour. When you are done, save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.
Features:
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SXSW Advanced Review: Anvil! The Story of Anvil
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Posted by Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 12, 2009
Everyone has a dream. The mail room worker who dreams of being a hot shot agent. The girl playing guitar in her dorm room that dreams of being a Rock Goddess. The cubicle worker that hopes to make it big as an advertising genius. Hell, there’s even an American Dream. A country has its own dream....
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Captain America, Thor, The Avengers, and...
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Marvel has announced a series of new release dates for its upcoming comic book films. The new dates make more sense from a production standpoint than the old ones, and logically lead to the eventual release of The Avengers film, which promises to combine many of Marvel’s characters, in 2012. Hit the jump to see the new dates. Thor, which was originally scheduled for a fairly soon July...
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Scarjo and Rourke Get Into Leather And Whips For...
Iron Man 2: Scarjo and Rourke Get Into Leather And Whips For Iron Man 2
By Meredith Woerner, 11:21 AM on Thu Mar 12 2009, 4,252 views
Scarlett Johansson is slipping into the leather catsuit and filling the high-heeled boots of Black Widow, while everyone’s favorite Wrestler, Mickey Rourke, is getting his own cybernetic whips in Iron...
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‘Taken’ Sequel, Americanized ‘District B13′ In the...
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In the best lower-budget, blow-out action film news of the morning, it appears as though screenwriter par example Robert Mark Kamen will be un-shockingly pairing with Luc Besson to bring a sequel to the box office steamroller Taken at some point in the near future. Also coming through the chute for the pair is an American re-imagining of District B13, a film that parkoured...
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League Of Super Evil Is Ren And...
League Of Super Evil:
By Charlie Jane Anders, 1:09 PM on Thu Mar 5 2009, 4,426 views
A ragged gang of supervillains make their debut on Cartoon Network tonight, and you may just be one of their first conquests. The League Of Super Evil brings cuteness and slapstick to mega-villainy. Spoilers!
I watched a few episodes of League at...
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Use Texter to Supercharge Your Repetitive Typing
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By Adam Pash, 9:00 AM on Thu Mar 5 2009, 15,001 views
Web development and design site Nettuts goes in-depth with Texter, our very own text replacement application, detailing how Texter can streamline your email replies and coding to save bundles of time.
We’ve got a couple of quick video demos on the Texter...
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Discuss: Is Graffiti a Viable Means of Film...
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Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 5, 2009
Is Warner Bros. paying street marketing teams to vandalize public property in New York City? Well, when put that way, it sounds like something the film industry monolith wouldn’t want to own up to. Whether or not they’re responsible, the words “Who Watches the Watchmen?” have appeared in spray-paint on...
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CookThink: Find Easy Prep Meal Recipes
CookThink: Find Easy Prep Meal Recipes
CookThink is nice food recipe search tool that lets you find recipes according to your food cravings. You can search for recipes by ingredients, dish types, cuisines and moods. All listed recipes are easy prep meals and dishes, ideal for quick home cooking. Each recipe is tested in-house or by site’s contributing recipe partners such as top food bloggers,...
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Gazaro: Hot Deal Comparison Site
Gazaro: Hot Deal Comparison Site
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Gazaro is a deal comparison site that helps you get the best deals on products you want. The site crawls deal offers across online retailers, sorts them by price histories and reviews allocating...
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First Look: Angelina Jolie in Salt
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by: Peter Sciretta
Yesterday, Columbia Pictures released the first two photos of Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt in Phillip Noyce’s thriller Salt. But the photos weren’t much to look at, just Jolie wearing different color wigs. Today the good folks at Columbia Picture have sent me a third (better) photo of Jolie as Salt. Click on the image above to enlarge. The film tells the story of a...
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What's On Watchmen's Cutting Room Floor?
Watchmen:
Translating Watchmen into a single movie is next to impossible, without giving some plot lines and characters the axe. But what can you live without? Find out what was cut from Watchmen, including spoilers.
Sweet Chariots And Segways:
Two things from the above Watchmen comic panel are completely missing in the movie. Yep, gone are Rorscach’s pocket full of Sweet Chariot sugar...
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Mark Strong Reveals Details on Sherlock Holmes...
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by Alex Billington
We’re still waiting to see a trailer for Sherlock Holmes, so until that shows up, all that we know about it comes from past news articles or interviews. Last year when I interviewed British actor Mark Strong, he mentioned that he was shooting Sherlock Holmes with Guy Ritchie, but didn’t say too much about his character. Total Film (the...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Joins Nolan’s Mind-Job Movie
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Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Christopher Nolan’s new mysterious new science fiction action movie. While I’m excited about pairing these two talents, I’m still dying to know more about this movie, Inception.
All we know about Nolan’s next work is that it’s a “contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.” So...
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Creepy Photos of Comedy’s New Legends, According...
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I have no problem with being biased, so I’ll say it-I love Judd Apatow, and I refuse to apologize for it. Since the days of Freaks and Geeks, I’ve followed and enjoyed everything with his stamp, and say what you will, but I loved every minute of it (to varying degrees, of course). Maybe it’s because I’m an awkward foul-mouthed geek myself? Who knows. But I truly feel like...
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It's Confirmed - No Judd Apatow for Ghostbusters...
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Earlier this week, a rumor that Ghostbusters 3 had become a Judd Apatow Production started spreading. I didn’t write about it because I just didn’t believe it, or at least, I didn’t trust Production Weekly. Well, the LA Times talked with Columbia Pictures’ president Doug Belgrad and got an official “it’s not true” today. It was...
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Have Crockpot Chicken Tacos Waiting When You Come...
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By Kevin Purdy, 5:30 AM on Wed Mar 4 2009, 22,466 views
If you dig slow-cooked meat, and you like tacos, WikiHow suggests dusting off that thanks-for-the-kind-gift crockpot, loading it before heading to work, and coming home to rich chicken taco filling—and scoring some versatile leftovers, too.
Photo by Dvortygirl.
We’re...
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The Cast of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
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Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 5:22 pm by: Peter Sciretta
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Mama Mia), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Abbie Cornish (Stop-Loss), Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Across The Universe), and Emma Stone (Superbad) are in talks to join the all-female cast of Zack Snyder’s Sucker...
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7 Things the Uninitiated Should Know Before Seeing...
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So far, there have been exactly 238,928 articles regarding Watchmen running around the internet. I counted. Yet exactly none of them are aimed at the large population of people that haven’t actually read the graphic novel. As mentioned before, the project is an odd cultural icon that is loved by many and unknown to more. Still, there are going to be a ton of viewers...
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Review: ‘Ink’ Is a Visually Arresting Dark Fairy...
Indie Spotlight: | Film School Rejects
The word “indie” has a certain connotation now. Like it or not, after years of building up a reputation and sliding more and more into the mainstream, indie films bring some standard features along for the ride - or at least evoke those standard features in the minds of viewers. Most indies are character-based, dialog-based studies without a lot of bells...
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Songbird 1.1 Grabs Album Art in One Step, Runs...
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Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o’ little tweaks.
The killer new feature is a single menu option, under “Tools,” that scans your entire music collection and grabs the...
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10 Unique YouTube Channels You Should Watch
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Why is YouTube so cool? Well, because you can watch what you want, when you want, and the variety of material you can choose from is just amazing.
Although you can not yet (legally) watch a whole lot of classic...
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James Cameron Not Messing Around With His ‘Avatar’...
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James Cameron takes his craft very seriously. And rightfully so, as Cameron’s upcoming film Avatar has built up some impressive buzz and even mightier expectations. Fans expect that the man who pioneered cool CGI effects with Terminator 2 and took scale to the umpteenth level with Titanic will deliver something truly remarkable with his next film, said to be another...
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A Lesson Learned: Fans Want Familiarity
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In our continued effort to understand the American moviegoer’s psyche, we uncover a diamond of truth revealed to us this weekend during the Watchmen premiere. At the expense of throwing away originality, we love stories that we already know.
Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the greatest graphic novel of all-time has received the most polarizing set of reviews we have ever...
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Edit your Content Online with “CopyTaste”
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I currently use Real Time HTML Editor to edit my content online but I’ve confronted a similar website today known as “CopyTaste”. It is a free web based service that allows you to publish text online. Unlike some other editors it features a multifunctional WYSIWYG text editor. It also gives you the option to add your images and videos.
It also offers a Firefox extension that lets...
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iDailyDiary Securely Records Your Private Thoughts
Downloads: iDailyDiary Securely Records Your Private Thoughts
Windows only: Personal journal application iDailyDiary stores your daily musings in a simple interface, locked away behind a password-protected and encrypted file.
iDailyDiary is extremely easy to use—just give your first diary a name and password and start typing away—each day’s thoughts are accessible through the easy-access...
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Review: ‘Tokyo!’ Is A Film Worth Visiting
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Anthology films are a tough sell for various reasons. The audience has less time to invest themselves in the characters, the filmmakers have less time to tell their stories, and the film as a whole depends on each segment working in unison. The best anthology films invariably end up as genre pics, like Creepshow and The House That Dripped Blood, but recently the format...
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CodeFetch: Programming Code Searching Tool
CodeFetch: Programming Code Searching Tool
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CodeFetch is an online tool for code searching that can be quiet helpful for starting programmers. The application searches published programming books and brings code snippets matching...
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Upit.to: Unlimited File Storage & Sharing Online
Upit.to: Unlimited File Storage & Sharing Online
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Upit.to is one click upload file hosting service that provides you with unlimited file storage and sharing. The service is absolutely free and you can upload files upto 5GB in...
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Danny Boyle NOT Directing New James Bond Movie
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Last week The Sun reported that Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is being offered the chance to direct the 23rd James Bond film. We speculated at the time that it was probably an inaccurate story...
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Patton Oswalt Says People Complaining About The...
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Patton Oswalt has always been one of my favorite comedians. Career-wise, his appearances on Reno 9/11 have shown he’s not afraid to make fun of himself, while his starring role in Pixar’s Ratatouille made him the envy of film nerds everywhere. In his stand-up, I love the way he is able to combine nerd/geek topics with a withering righteous indignation. Take, for example, the...
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Sony's Poster for Harold Ramis' Year On
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Meet your ancestors… Sony has unveiled the official poster for Year One, the upcoming biblical comedy from director Harold Ramis. It’s designed to look a lot like the Superbad poster (also a Sony release), but instead, it has Jack Black and Michael Cera with long hair and dressed in animal skins. While I didn’t think any of the TV spots...
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Arnold Talks About His Terminator and Expendables...
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I’ve said before that this may finally be the year that we see Arnold Schwarzenegger return to the big screen, if only just briefly, but it looks like it will happen. Arnold appeared at the 2009 Arnold Classic and TheArnoldFans.com was there to ask him about appearing in both McG’s Terminator Salvation and Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. He gave a...
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Watchmen Screenwriter Asks Fans To See Watchmen...
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Screenwriter David Hayter has been working on a big screen adaptation of Watchmen for almost a decade, which means he’s invested not only a lot of time on the project, but also a lot of energy. And like a lot of people in Hollywood, the fear of a one weekend payoff is scary. Hayter has written a letter to fans on HardcoreNerdity, where he asks for anyone who liked the film to return to...
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Will Sam Worthington Steal Bale's Batman?
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There’s a crazy rumor circulating that after Christian Bale’s little Terminator set outburst, Warner Bros. is looking to replace Bale in the next Dark Knight picture, with his Terminator co-star Sam Worthington… Riiiiiiight.
According to “industry gossip” (which means: lots and lots of papers got excited about something they read, but can’t remember...
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Legally, Terminator Is The New Watchmen
Terminator: Salvation:
Now that Watchmen has made it to theaters, we need a new SF film to be threatened by legal action. Thankfully, Terminator: Salvation has stepped up to the plate… and into the courtroom.
Salvation producer Moritz Borman has started legal action against fellow producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek (as well as their production company, Halcyon), claiming breach...
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Everything You Need To Know About Watchmen
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Feeling Watchmen information overload? Let us help! Here are io9’s greatest essays, interviews and features about the classic graphic novel adaptation, opening tonight. (With some possible spoilers, especially for graphic-novel virgins.)
What’s On Watchmen’s Cutting Room Floor? Translating Watchmen into a single movie is next to impossible, without giving some plot...