Reed of the Valley People wrote:

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Watchmen. I'm optimistic. The images in the trailer seem pretty direct from the comic. But this trailer seems to be really for the fan boys.

Are fans of the comic getting excited about this then? I didn't think they would be, considering Alan Moore's standpoint and the way his comics have been butchered in the past.

I haven't seen the Dark Knight yet. All the gushing's put me off, and I don't like the director and cast. I'll watch it in a year or two, when everyone's stopped going on about it!

You don't like Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, or Christian Bale?

Do you also hate icecream, justice and fun?

I wondered when Mark Felt would turn up, and evidently missed it. That's an excellent post.

Just in case that wasn't a rhetorical question - no, I don't like Nolan, Ledger, Oldman and Bale. Or to be precise, I haven't liked any film they've been involved in.

Crikey. There's some good films you've not been liking.

Such as?

Leon. True Romance. The Firm (kinda). 3.10 to Yuma. Shaft. American Psycho. Fucking Pocahontas even.

Unless you mean that you've never liked any film they've been involved in *together*.

Shaft!!! I don't like any of those enough that I would want to watch them again.

What films do you like?

Ten off the top of my head: Battle of Algiers, Quick Change, Stray Dog, Prince of Darkness, 12 Angry Men, Sabata, The Hill, El Topo, Manhunter, Assault on Precinct 13.

Apologies for the temporary hijacking of the thread.

Tightly-wound-as-a-Swiss-watch?

Maybe-a-swiss-watch-that-got-run-over-by-the-Batcycle.

(Sorry,Im-reduced-to-making-bullshit-snarky-comments.Im-getting-paid-on-Friday.)

Batpod;

I'm-not-getting-paid-until-Monday.

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Are fans of the comic getting excited about this then? I didn't think they would be, considering Alan Moore's standpoint and the way his comics have been butchered in the past.

It's the usual drill. Some, like me, are looking forward to seeing how it turns out and like the visuals that have been shown so far. However, as usual, many fanboys with blogs are doing their usual bitching and moaning. If a film (or, in this case, the film's trailer), isn't exactly like the comic they'll say that its horrible, a disaster, a sellout, shit, sucks, whatever. It's very tiresome, actually, so I don't read those blogs.

There can be a "cry wolf" problem with those types of nerds. The studios think "Oh, the fanboys are never going to be happy, so we'll just do whatever we want" and then we end up with crap like that awful Catwoman film, the Schumacher Batman films or, to a much less crap extent, the most recent Superman effort.

Fortunately, with the success of Spider-Man and the last two Batman films, the trend in Hollywood is to stick fairly closely to the source material while also trying to make a good film.


Alan Moore isn't involved in this, but that's got more to do with his falling out with Warner Brothers over his rights to stuff he did for DC and his overall weirdness. It doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't like the script. He probably hasn't read it.


V for Vendetta wasn't butchered. The film wasn't as good as the comic, but only by a bit. Its not really that great of a comic.

The film of From Hell bears such little resemblance to the comic that it can't be said to be an adaptation at all, so it's not a butchering of the original. The only things the two have in common are the title and the general subject matter of the Jack the Ripper murders. I've only got about a quarter of the way through the book. It's about 7,000 pages and has a lot of endnotes. The film wasn't great, but at least Johnny Depp is very good in it.

I never read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but I gave up on the film about 10 minutes in. That might count as a butchering.

I liked V a good deal better at the cinema actually. I found it better paced, more morally ambigious, and less misogynist.

Yeah, all of those things, but the book had more about V's experience at the concentration camp, which I thought helped the character, and a bit more on the background of how Britain became fascist. Even though all of that in the book was supposed to have happened in the 1980s, I thought it gave the whole story a bit more depth.

I watched the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film last night and in comparison that really sucks ass.