Watchmen

[picklemonkey]

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welcome back highsteppa!

[floridaorange]

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^ Highsteppa, I too really enjoy your posts and appreciate your knowledge on these films. Very interesting and thought provoking.

[res0nat0r]

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going to see this tonight!

[fletcher]

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Lets face it, it sounds like this adaption could have been A LOT worse. Im going to see it on thursday, and am still excited. There is always positive and negative commentary on any film, so ill make up my own mind.

[res0nat0r]

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I thought this movie was great. I liked how they stayed very close to the book adaptiation, and I loved the use of the 60's/70's soundtrack. I also appreciated that during all of the fight scenes they didn't do a standard Jason Bourne thing and cut around the damn fightscene every .5 seconds so you can't focus on anything going on.
Also I loved the Nixson war room scenes, nice homage to Dr Strangelove.
Zack Snyder has a great eye for movies like this, loved his directing, very well done.
Also Rorschach was great...

[RiseandShine]

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Had no idea about the comic and didn't really enjoy the movie - good visual and some fun things but just way to long
Too much effort on character development that didn't work for me
Plus, I thought the whole message behind it was just stupid in the sens that it didn't take a phd to make the same reasoning as "one of the most intelligent person on earth"
would of loved more action

[simonr]

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I've just d/l'd the 1-12 comics (was thinking of buying the Absolute Watchmen hardback box-set ... but the price is rather too high).

So ... big question ... should I get through the 12 x series 1st or do it after the film ?

[feather]

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Would go with the movie first then the comic if you're new to it. The comic is very very exhaustive. The movie will feel like a primer while the comic will open up a whole new world to it.

[Highsteppa]

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I say go through the series first. There's a fair bit of dot connecting and stuff that's implied in the movie that pans out a fair bit more in the graphic novel.

[res0nat0r]

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you can just get it off of amazon here in one book for 12$ and its about 400 pages.

http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Alan-Moore/dp/0930289234

[picklemonkey]

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[Corven]

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lol

[res0nat0r]

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blenis

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[feather]

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Wow, just saw the movie. I had low expectations and didn't really like the trailer, but the movie was just, WTF. Easily the most cerebral and provoking comic book adaptation ever.

The movie was probably both a success and a failure. A success at adapting the comic and pushing the fancy CG stuff and executing those comic scenes for the big screen. But a failure not so much its adaptation but the very nature of the comic defied adaptation.

The movie was never gonna adapt the comic fully but while it did a good enough job for me, I can imagine the flocks of cinema goers who're not familiar with the movie will be sitting through it thinking WTF because that was exactly my friend's reaction. Kept mumbling to me 'this movie is damn wierd.'

It's also easier to dive into the comic's alternate history, I think the act of reading triggers the imagination and suspension of belief on the reader's part and makes the reader complicit in whatever Moore was trying to pull over our eyes. Watching a movie, it's a lot lot more difficult to suspend the disbelief of this alternate history because firstly superheroes don't exist in real life, and the almost-perfect re-enaction of scenes and the saturated colours make it doubly hard to lose myself in the movie.

All up, it's not surprising that fans might hail it a success while a lot of casual watchers will either be bored out of their pants or at worst, think it's some indulgent wank.

[feather]

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I thought this movie was great. I liked how they stayed very close to the book adaptiation, and I loved the use of the 60's/70's soundtrack. I also appreciated that during all of the fight scenes they didn't do a standard Jason Bourne thing and cut around the damn fightscene every .5 seconds so you can't focus on anything going on.
Also I loved the Nixson war room scenes, nice homage to Dr Strangelove.
Zack Snyder has a great eye for movies like this, loved his directing, very well done.
Also Rorschach was great...

Did you notice when Ozymandias was looking at the world through his bank of TV screens in his Antartic fortress, the screen next to the one showing Rorschach and Night Owl was playing Apple's 1984 ad?