Watchmen

I don't see why you have to be a geek to watch and enjoy a comic book movie. *shrugs* I'm sure the odd cool person must be watching these films too, otherwise they wouldn't keep making so much money.

Nite Owl is supposed to the everyman of the story. The one you can relate to. The normal one. The geek. I guess it's necessary to have a character like that, especially in a story like Watchmen, where most of the characters do questionable things. I've never liked Laurie though. And she's even more annoying in the graphic novel. ;)
 
I actually like the updated version of Nite Owl II - it's more in keeping with the Blue Beetle of the 1980s (which the character is based on rather than Batman - although the Batman parallels are obvious).

Moore's just getting abit cranky these days - he's always complaining about folks adapting his works, but to be fair to him he doesn't except any money from them nowadays so he can say what he wants without being accused of being a hippocrite.

However, his gripe with DC was that he & Dave Gibbons were never paid what they were owed in the first place & never had intellectual property rights to their work in the first place (which is a common practice with DC that I've learned from bitter experience). They argued that they retained the rights to the characters, even though they were character adapted from the Carlton Comics series they had just purchased.

To be honest, DC management these days are a joke - look at the way they treated Chuck Dixon recently - and we shareholders have been voicing our displeasure the only way we know how...

Oi vey - the latest update on the legal side is that they were talking about a revenue share option, but Warner's are prepared to scuttle the entire project rather than share the revenue with 20th Century Fox...
 
I Agree,any pandering to Warners PG-13 sensibilities would have ripped the integral heart of the Graphic Novel out,and Alan Moore would be spitting venom even more than he is at the moment,i reckon even a 15 rated version wouldnt have done the Graphic Novel justice,it had to be 18 or not at all:)
 
Wow. I absolutely LOVED that. I couldn't have asked for a much better adaptation considering a movie's length. The stuff they dropped wasn't missed too much, and the stuff they kept was pretty much bang on. Even the "big change" they made to a part of it probably felt far more logical to the story in fairness.

So glad I've got the next week off work - I'll be back! ;)



Did you watch a different show? He said it was a great movie, albeit not necessarily one that'll have as much a broad appeal as a Dark Knight kind of film. He said that it was as if the movie was made for him (as a comic book geek) - that's a great review in my book too! Unless he loves awful films...
 
I've never read the comic and so never had the source material to compare it to. Perhaps that's why I thought this was quite a good film.
It didn't feel too long like Curiously Boring Benjamin Button - which is the same length.
 
I think the problem is that the only characters they even remotely developed was The Comedian and Rorschach. Barely.
I understand it's difficult to include so much in only 3 hours but there were many scenes that could have been cut in favor of showing some depth for the rest of the characters.

And this complicated material just doesn't translate very well on film, no matter who directs it.
 
Quite correct. Miller is a notorious mysoginist when it comes to his writing, and frankly he's incredibly overhyped as a writer. He wrote The Dark Knight Returns, which was fantastic, but everything else he's touched turns to pants pretty much. Robocop 2 and 3 anyone? :D
 
I am always amazed that some people can wait 6 months untill a film comes out on DVD. As if its a film I really want to see then I cant wait to see it. Im not being critical but I just cant understand the waiting 6 months because its a long film!
 
DC have a long and less than honourable tradition of stiffing people, probably starting with Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. It took them decades to get any form of justice so Alan Moore had better be prepared for the long game.:)
 
Just watched the first episode - it's brilliant - it's animated in the sense that the original storyboard is there with little flourishes by the artist himself (so it's a bit like captain pugwash... well it isn't but you get the idea)

I'm definately going to buy the series (downloaded the first few by other means) - it's 6 hours so I'll watch it before the film - then probably watch it again on my ipod cos I fly off the next day!

if you're a fan of the book this is a must see!
 
Has anyone seen the tv trailers for Watchmen. At the end it says experience the film in Imax.

My local Imax cinema isn't even showing the film yet they advertised it on their website for the past 6 months! (However it's now been taken off).

I called them up to find out why and they told me there were contractual agreement problems so now it won't be shown.

Does anyone have any more info on this?
 
This strikes me as a film that will benefit from being seen on the big screen, i can't see it being quite as visually stunning on a home theatre set up.

It's only about 10 minutes longer than 'The Dark Knight' and i saw that in the cinema twice!
 
I am reaaallly confused. I remember clear as day watching the show and he was saying how he found the whole movie very confusing and boring and was surprised it even got made?!! I was shocked by the review, but thought it might of been because he was a comic book fan boy and it was a particular comic book he didn't like.
 
Yes. The lot of them, excepting Dr. Manhattan, were at heart people who like to dress up.

I thought the Owl Man movie costume works about as well as the Batman Dark Knight. Silk Spectre actually looks quite sexy and dangerous. Veidt/ Ozymandias, in the brief clips we've been shown, does seem to capture that arrogance.
 
Back
Top