You Know What’s Good About the Watchmen Movie?

As noted here, there are a few bright spots (scroll down). Another is this: Apollonia Vanova as Silhouette, specifically the bit in the credits sequence where she steps up to a girl and scoops her in for the great Times Square V-Day kiss.Watching Vanova’s five seconds, you get the idea she actually could beat up people for fun; she seems exactly like a piss-elegant, fighting superheroine.  She’s got a tiger’s stroll, like somebody in Doc Savage


I thought Vanova might be a runway model just doing the sort of walk the trade calls for, but it says here she’s a mezzo soprano and sculptress and competes as a fitness model (which means working out but not getting bulky). What she wants on her tombstone: “She lived for art.”

UPDATE: edited because I didn’t like the original

0 thoughts on “You Know What’s Good About the Watchmen Movie?

  1. I think that your “here” link in your first sentence links to something internal for you only, since it sent me to the sign-in page and keeps looping me back to the sign-in page, though I am signed in.

  2. Thanks Sheryl. As lord-high-blogging-muckety-muck, I was able to fix it on Tom’s behalf.

    There’s a kind of interesting article about the kiss and subsequent death scene here. As a bonus, the post sneers at Valley of the Dolls. I hate that movie.

  3. Sorry about that. I cut-and-pasted that sentence (and its link) from one screen to another.