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Post by Calcifer Boheme on Sept 11, 2006 22:18:22 GMT -5
Well, being as it's louted as the greatest series of all time, I of course had to read it.
I finished it last week, and all I can say is wow.
It was an amzing book, everything I'd hoped for and more. The characters were brilliant, the plot was very thoguht provoking, and it was all around an amazing book.
what are everyone elses thoughts on this?
What do you think about the possible movie? I think it will be ok. They should spread it out over 2 or 3 films though... But I'll wait till I know ore about it to judge
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Post by The Sam Kinnison Corps on Sept 12, 2006 12:52:21 GMT -5
I just ordered the regular version over the weekend. If it's really as astouding as I hear, something tells me I'll get the Absolute edition down the line.
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Post by cosmicspidey on Sept 12, 2006 15:25:56 GMT -5
I have the Absolute edition but still haven't got around to reading it. Well worth the $75 just to have such an amazing version of the greatest superhero story ever told.
I think the movie should not happen. It can most certainly not be pulled off live action, and CG rarely looks realistic enough (well, maybe if Squaresfot was doing it...). The only way I see an adaptation of Watchmen succeeding is as a 12-episode series on HBO, with each hour-long episodes adapting one issue, animated in the style of Dave Gibbons.
Furthermore, I don't think Watchmen SHOULD be adapted. Watchmen is the pinnacle of comics, something even non-comic readers will read because it's so great. Making it into a movie sort of takes away from the fact that the story transcends the medium in which it was told.
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Post by Calcifer Boheme on Sept 12, 2006 17:45:50 GMT -5
I think you make valid points. But I think it could work as a movie. It's not going to be easy, obviously, but it can. I mean, look at Sin City
The watchmen was set up at a very cinematic pace anyway. It's just the depth and length could be an issue.
I don't know if adapting it is the best idea, but I'm sure I would enjoy it... And I'm not a stickler for it beign perfect, as long as it's good... Unlike some Allan Moore adapataions (League of Extrordinary Gentlemen, I'm looking at you.)
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Post by Thumper: One Year Later on Oct 14, 2006 19:30:30 GMT -5
It is a great story, which should go without saying becase Moore wrote it. It could come out all right on a movie, just depends on the script and how it is done. I think it would best be done as a big tv miniseries. I am not sure how the non-comic public would react to it because it looks like a superhero movie, but none of them are really recognizible.
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Post by Raoul the Great on Oct 15, 2006 12:06:36 GMT -5
Watchmen is awesome.
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Post by GreatJunta36 on Oct 15, 2006 13:38:41 GMT -5
The Watchmen's what made me "grow up" when reading comic books. I say this all the time when people ask what my favorite book is. The Watchmen is a book with so many HUGE ideas that I had to read it 3x in a row to grasp the big picture. I've gotten lots of my friends hooked on the story over the years. Unfortunately the movie situation is a heartbreaking one. I was let down when they announced it and dropped it, then again when it was announced (they even started an official Watchmen message board!!) and dropped again. Then I got excited once more when they said it was greenlit but then they switched directors and dropped again... and I think the last of it (to this point) was that they're trying to shop the rights around to other studios but no one seems to want to pick it up. I'm actually looking forward to a The Watchmen movie. I wasn't until I saw how they treated X2, Batman Begins, and Sin City. Those movies restored my faith in a good comic book adaptation. As long as The Watchmen gets the respect it deserves, I won't have a problem watching the flick (if it ever gets made)
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Post by jerrysafunnyguy on Oct 24, 2006 4:45:10 GMT -5
Greatest comic ever written. I think that's an international consensus, because everything great that has come after it has taken something from Watchmen. It just is that profound and conceptually broad. It's anything a comic COULD be about all jammed into one book. Every archetypal character, setting, action...and it's all related to real human life.
As for the movie, I have faith in Zack Snyder, I think he's a capable director, especially visually, not so sure about storywise (I've only seen one of his movies...hell, most of the world has) but one thing that disappoints me is the David Hayter script being tossed out. Every single person I know that has read it said it was simply brilliant, something like 150 pages and it captured everything that Watchmen is or means. But they threw that out and hired the guy that wrote Sucka Free City.
......ok. That's the Hollywood Thought Machine hard at work for you.
I agree with Terry Gilliam, the only true way to do a filmed Watchmen would be a 12 hour series of films, whether 12 one hour parts, or 6 two hour parts....but nothing can be left out and still have the entire meaning of the book remain intact. There is just no way.
If the movie comes out of course I'll watch it, but it's just one of those works that I don't think really can be fully transferred to a moving visual medium. And that's because so much of Watchmen's greatness lies in what isn't said, and those are the things that would be trampled in a movie.
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