Watchmen

18 is too harsh. Alien babies bursting out from pregnant women in AVP2 only merited a 15. Some of the deaths in the Final Destination series were pretty gruesome and some of those were 15 IIRC.

I suspect that the completely unjustified furore over The Dark Knight getting a 12A resulted in the BBFC not taking any chances this time...typical.

Ah well no kiddies!!!
 
I think this is the case. I seem to remember on Comics Britannia recently they talked about the likes of DC head hunting AM and other British comic writers. The writers made a lot of money, but had no ownership over the material.
 
Agree with soul-less, that's pretty much my impression of it. A pale copy of the graphic novel. I've not read it for a few years so dug out my copy and am flicking through it inbetween bouts of work. The movie is pretty in places but I didn't like the gratuitous violence; the novel was much, much more subtle.

Lazy script and direction in some instances. The alternative ending kind of worked but in my mind you don't tinker with the fundamentals.

I'm actually quite warming to the film version of "V for Vendetta" now!
 
The fact that AM signed over the rights to his properties in exchange for lots of money back in the day (he could always have self published) makes it seem to me that his constant public crying about DC actually using these properties just makes him look like a jerk - and spoils a legacy of decent (if often overrated - yes I'm looking at you V for Vendetta) comics.
 
Lucky bugger. The Imax in Glasgow (only one in Scotland) has decided not to show it as it unsuitable for a family audience. The managed to show The Dark Knight, which in my opinion is equally as violent and disturbing in many places. :(
 
From the reviews I've read it seems that aside from the violence, the fact that there is a sex scene and one of the characters is pretty much naked throughout the film is the reason they've given it an 18 certificate.
 
That'll do for me. :)

I don't buy many DVD's, but will probably shell out for the Watchmen, as there's supposed to be a lot of stuff, being filmed, just for that version.
 
Yes, except in rare cases like using Robert Downey Jnr for Tony Stark/ Iron Man. That was inspired casting.

Considering the time it has been made, casting unknown of lesser known people is a great idea. Had Watchmen coincided with actors from the past at the right age, I'm thinking that Michael York would've made a prefect Ozymandias, and the Comedian was made for Dennis Hopper.
 
This week's quote from AM doesn't strike me as indifference:

"Will the film even be coming out? There are these legal problems now, which I find wonderfully ironic. Perhaps it's been cursed from afar, from England. And I can tell you that I will also be spitting venom all over it for months to come (...). It is as if we are freshly hatched birRAB looking up with our mouths open waiting for Hollywood to feed us more regurgitated worms. The 'Watchmen' film sounRAB like more regurgitated worms. I for one am sick of worms".​
Given that AM gladly took the cash from DC to sign the rights of his work over to them, I can't help but feel such comments make him look a bit of a berk. He took money for signing over the rights to his stories to DC and having them published by this mega-corp. He then cries that DC use the rights as they see fit (in this case, to make films). He has been paid for his intellectual property, and was under no duress or obligation to sign those contracts (there are many that self publish, or retain rights to their characters and stories through smaller publishers). Moore went for the big publisher - for which there were big rewarRAB - happily took the downside of signing over the rights to use his stories as they saw fit.

I find his predictable petulance a shame, because as a writer, he really did have his moments, and often these films are a gateway to people picking up his books.

A friend of mine recently said to me "I can't help but love Alan Moore - partly because he's so clumsily opinionated".

Personally, I think that is generous.
 
V For Vendetta updated the Thatcher era milieu of the original to encompass Islamophobia.

The results were mixed but it did make the film seem topical.

Watchmen on the other hand is so faithful to the original it's virtually a period piece.
 
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