Watchmen!
 

For anyone who is a fan of comic books or anti hero films

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

What dya reckon?

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Yep, got a couple of comics hidden somewhere. :-)
Interested in the movie, just hope that the story is good.

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All the clips I've seen are pretty faithful to the novel & the director's pretty good so it *should* be a decent adaptation.


Apparently the ending's been altered to make it more dramatic for viewers.

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looks good

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Hell. Jeah. Roll on March!

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How can they alter the ending - it's awesome - the bad guy...

... well I won't ruin it. ;)

Dave Gibbons has been with this from the start and is reported as being very pleased with the whole process - but The greater god that is Alan Moore still hates Hollywood and everything in it - so I guess he's still a little reserved. ;)
Hell everything else he's written has been shafted on its trip to the big screen so I don't blame him.

I'll reserve judgement until I see the whole thing - though I am disappointed that William H Macey was not cast as Rorschach to start with - so I'll need some convincing - though I do really like the director's stuff so we'll see.

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I quite liked the adaptation of V for Vendetta. Some parts were, imho, better than the book.

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Heretic. ;)

To be honest I also found certain parts of the film a bit 'easier' to watch than they were to read if you get my drift - but then I'm an avid fan of both film as a medium and Alan Moore as a writer...

... and can luckily compartmentalise many of my views regarding work that crosses the boundary of written to visual - LotR being a good case in point. :roll: But I can also see the passion someone can put into the creation of the original written work, and how hard it then must be for them to perhaps appreciate the demands of another medium.
Part of the problem in Moore's work, as opposed to say, Frank Miller's is that whilst the writing of it is sublime, it's not always backed up with such a strong visual impact as Millars.
Don't get me wrong, Dave Gibbons is a great artist - but not what you would call strongly stylised. The same is true for the majority of Moore's work - the weight is in the writing rather than the graphics...

... when it comes to translating this to film - well - in Hollywood writers are ten-a-penny compared to directors. So the emphasis is always (well, Ok, more often than not - Del Torro is a glorious exception) going to be on how the written work can be bent to meet the director's visual needs. Let's face it - with Watchmen, there is just too much writing to fit into a film; mini-series yes, but not a single film.

There are very few parts that could bear to be cut - the death of the original Nite-Owl is probably the main one as it serves no real purpose in moving the main plot along - but so much serves to form the characterisations that it's going to be 'interesting' to see how much they can shave off and still retain the depth of personality. :confused:

As usual chances are that bits will go missing, motivations will be altered and the story will end up (because motivational politics are so central to Moore's writing) being not so much the film of the iconic graphic-novel, The Watchmen...

... but being a stand-alone film; one piece of fiction that happens to have drawn inspiration from another great piece of fiction. Viewing it will tell if the film can stand on it's own two feet to gain my praise. ;)





So ner.:smt019

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geek :p

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Never read the book, love the film though