Who Plays With The Watchmen?

That is uncalled for and completely wrong. The story was from Entertainment Weekly, not Slashfilm -- so the source was credited. Just because your favorite site posted it doesn't mean they have the exclusive.

Every site from SuperheroHype to CHUD has it posted by now -- all from EW. You better e-mail every single one of them with the same claim of theft. Once again, it was not Slashfilm's exclusive. Your loyalty is commendable but entirely misguided.

And the reason these things were never posted before was they didn't have a geek like me posting them. With your incredible detective skills, you clearly failed to notice that a fairly NEW name was accompanying "this kinda stuff." Why not click on my name and see my coverage for yourself? I have plenty of geek cred to back me up -- and I am far from the only one on Cinematical who does.

Wait a second, whoremembers, so you're saying that if it's something cool, something movie related and something online, that we cannot post it because Slashfilm has automatically claimed all cool things on the internet because they have a column called Cool Stuff? Are we serious now?

Elisabeth's story originated over at EW, who had the exclusive to it. Whenever we spot a cool post at Slashfilm, like the Star Wars photos, we give them credit. You will see, as we do with all sites, we give credit.

Please do some research before you run around this house spewing hateful remarks. Our writers do not deserve it and this site does not deserve it.

Thanks,

Erik

But it *didn't* originate on Slashfilm! It originated at Entertainment Weekly, who was given the exclusive! Even *Slashfilm* credited it.

I honestly went to Slashfilm after your shrieking (I hadn't seen their write up at all), expecting that somehow Peter and I wrote the same thing, word for word. And what do I find? The dude copied and pasted the text from EW. Everything I wrote was original.

It's not an "awfully big coincidence" it was a cool story by EW. Everyone posted it. Google "Watchmen figures" and 1,000 sites and blogs will pop up. I guarantee over half of them have no idea Slashfilm wrote a single thing on it.

I posted it because it was Watchmen related, and I'll post any scrap I get associated with that movie. I don't post toy related stuff otherwise, it's not the focus of Cinematical.

And I do post my own cool stuff -- it's called The Geek Beat. Last week, the column was even Watchmen related. Amazingly, Slashfilm is not the only site written by people who have ever heard of the movie, or read the graphic novel. Coincidence, I'm sure.

Just for you, V.M.L. :D Maybe that can be a Geek Beat focus some week!

whoremembers, Geek Beat was a column we introduced wayyy back in 2005, but it disappeared when the person writing it had to leave the site. Just recently, when we brough Elisabeth on, we decided to bring back the column. So this is not an idea we got from Slashfilm or any other site -- it's something we've had for awhile. Maybe they got it from us???

Oh, and not once has Elisabeth's column talked about a toy or geeky collectible -- she wrote about cosplay and costuming yesterday because she actually does that sort of stuff. So stop saying we're stealing ideas from Slashfilm -- the girl hasn't written anything in that column that's directly interfered with something over there.

Also, we're a blog. We're not Variety, the Hollywood Reporter or some other site that only reports news. We report on all things cinema -- be it through fan rants, discussion posts, cool videos, reviews, interviews or toys we find online, etc ... When we pick that up from another site, we'll send them love as always.

We've been covering the SXSW film fest for years now. Slashfilm, I believe, covered it for the first time this year. So should we assume they stole that idea from us?