The Watchmen

[Moosetroop11]

I remember Rorshach yelling for Dr M to kill him, but not quite like that... But it was the presence of Dan that I was annoyed about, it kinda changed the entire dynamic of the scene.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy the film. It was good- waaay better than I expected, actually. It's just easier to describe the little bits you didn't like than go through all the other scenes and go "that was pretty good. That was pretty good too."

[Red Giant]

I'm not saying it's okay to gut the important parts. I'm saying that, no matter how much the movie crew does to try to turn a book or a comic or a play or whatever into a movie, fans of the original media are always going to be pissed about one thing or another. As Kirby sort of tried to say, movies are movies and not books or comics. Things have to get changed for silver screen. If fans expected an exact replica of the graphic novels, word-for-word and scene-for-scene, they were kidding themselves in a rather stupid way.

It happens with every movie like this. Fans complain that this or that isn't perfect. I have no patience for it anymore.

If anything, I'm GLAD I haven't read the novels, because that way the movie can't let down my expectations.

As a fan, shouldn't any sort of movie adaptation make you happy, no matter how much stuff they screw up? At least they're out there, trying to deliver to your more content. And if you decide the whole thing is just irredeemably awful, you can dismiss it as a "well, that's just their take on it. Oh well" kind of thing.

That's the problem, this was almost a word-for-word adaptation, but with none of the soul. I am a big fan of Nolan's batman series, which morph and modify every detail of the universe to fit the "realistic" universe, but preserve the core themes. I am not your fanboy who complains when I hear a word out of place, and I hate that attitude as much as you. But this is not nitpicking, this is a wholly different complaint.

I am not in doubt that this is about the best possible watchmen movie that could exist. But as I had said before, watchmen is just not fit for cinema. We talk as though a watchmen movie was some kind of cosmically fated event that no mortal could have averted. They could have just, you know, not made a watchmen movie. I am jaded with our entertainment culture that calls for arbitrary adaptation of any damn thing that has a chance of turning a dollar. But I guess it's not fair to pin that on watchmen alone.


I suppose it is a good thing that more people will be turned towards the novel.

[Razor]

Your all gay.
It was my movie of the year. It had EVERYTHING.

Obviously I haven't read the novel BUT DARN TOOTIN' I WANT TO.

[ZeroKirbyX]

I still loved the "Good friend Daniel," scene.

[Ben]

Your all gay.
It was my movie of the year. It had EVERYTHING.

Obviously I haven't read the novel BUT DARN TOOTIN' I WANT TO.

I love you so much that if your anus and or inverted penor was around me, i would unbirth and climb into it.

[Razor]

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL

[Archem]

I would start sealing up all of my orifices.

But that's just me.