Poll: Who will watch "The Watchmen"?

[watchman 2353]

In the trailer it is sad that his true line is not in it, i feel that it was one of 2 that made the movie it actualy reeds:
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and policians will look up and shout 'Save Us!'... And ill look down and whisper 'no'."

 

[watchman 2353]

Roarsarch talked about Ozymandias being posably gay in his journal. It was made to be that way.

New sub topic what do you think of roarsarch.
I, being an objectivist, saw him as a becon of hope in a sewer of violence.

 

[Eyclonus]

But he's not meant to dress like Fabulor the Fruity...

 

[ManBarrel]

I'll watch it.

 

[jdog345]

I'll probably see it, haven't read the graphic novel though, but saw the preview, looks incredible.

*Gasp* Blasphemy!

Great book, the movie wont be as good though.

 

[Eyclonus]

The propoased game sounds aweful, the talking head said that Rorschach and Nite Owl were two complete opposites. I hope they can it and just leave us with the movie.

 

[GenHellspawn]

I realise the trailer is absoultely freakin' awesome, but am I the only one that thinks that perhaps they've screwed the pooch re: Ozymandias? I just really hope that they capture the aesthetic of the comic rather than the big-budget aesthetic, you see the comic was a superhero story that was just nasty in it's aesthetic. It's not stylish, it looks like just a normal comic book but with something just askew, the colour palette just a little bit darker and in that lay one of the many layers of meaning in the comic book.

I personally think it should only be made on a budget of 50M max to avoid it becoming just another big-budget superhero film. It's so...so much more than that. It's the antithesis of the normal comic book.

God I hope they don't screw this one up.

The trailer is pretty bitchin' to somebody who's already read the book. But when my friend saw it, he had no idea what it was about. I mean, think about it, you basically get a bunch of disjointed scenes thrown at you with almost no voice overs. To him, it would've been like "OK, there's a flying submarine. OK, now there's some guy getting hurled out of a window. OK, now theres random blue people.". They really should make another one that makes more sense

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Err...


<< What do you think?!

 

[SomeBritishDude]

New sub topic what do you think of roarsarch.
I, being an objectivist, saw him as a becon of hope in a sewer of violence.

I just see him as a phyco. He is the real Batman.

Thats partly what I love about watchmen. If really questions what kind of person would put on tights and goes around saving the world, and looks all the possible mind sets, from what a truely otherworldly hero would be like (AKA the superman) to the Streetwise Vigalanty (AKA the batman).

 

[Razzle Bathbone]

New sub topic what do you think of roarsarch.
I, being an objectivist, saw him as a becon of hope in a sewer of violence.

Rorschach is one of the most unforgettable characters you'll ever meet.
His defining trait was his absolute inability to process moral ambiguity. The mask he wore was the symbol of this trait: black and white, always touching, never mixing. His inner world was completely Manichean. Everything that exists is either pure good or pure evil. Grey simply does not exist. Nuance is for faggots and commies. It's a tool of the weak, used to excuse corruption and evil.
Whenever he acted, he did so from complete confidence that he was absolutely correct. His beliefs were structured so as to allow no possibility that he could be wrong. It was that confidence that gave him the strength to do the things he did. There was nothing he was not psychologically capable of, within the limits of his world-view.

Spoiler

He also had a massive death wish. He hated the world, and wanted out. But suicide was immoral to him, and so he needed another way.
To Rorschach, any compromise with evil is evil. His refusal to compromise was a matter of honour, and in the end, this was how he got the death he craved so badly. He knew that Doctor Manhattan wouldn't let him go. And finally he could end his life, free of compromise.
But by then he was already dead, because he had already compromised himself by not killing his landlady. When he and Nite Owl returned to his apartment after the jailbreak, the landlady was there. She had lied to the press about him, telling them that he had made sexual advances and such. Honour demanded that he kill her. "Slur on reputation. Very bad. How much did they pay you to lie about me, whore?" But it wasn't her pleading that stayed his hand. Her children were there too, screaming and crying. He looked into the terrified eyes of that boy, snot streaming out his nose, tears pouring down his face, and saw himself when he was a boy. And he made his choice. He compromised.
From that moment, he was a dead man walking.
God, I love that story. What a great character.

 

[MarcusStrout]

According to Murphy's Law, there is really no way the movie will be as good as the gn, but there is some hope for the "interpretation" to be more than half-assed. As long as they look at what has happened to the other book-to-movie titles out there, there will be a significant amount of hope for it.

P.S. I am not -comparing- Watchmen to Harry Potter, I'm comparing the way they were transcribed to the silver screen. They screwed the already maimed series with the movies. Crossed fingers for a better try for Watchmen.

 

[maxusy3k]

Given the impact The Dark Knight (and apparently Iron Man) have had over this summer there's hope for any adaptation from here on out. The bar has been raised, there's no way to argue that regardless of what you think about the above films, and I'd hope that Hollywood execs and company realise that a half-ass cash-in won't cut it anymore.

 

[Uncompetative]

Apparently Terry Gilliam was going to direct it at one point, but after assessing the material he passed on the project. His view was that it would make a good TV mini-series, but a movie's shorter length would mean too much would have to be cut out. Movie adaptations work when the literary source is a normal length comic, short story or novella. Consequently, I predict major fail.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

I'll watch the movie, but it'll never live up to its source material. You have a giant onion of a story- layer after layer of meaning and subtext, something orders of magnitude beyond what most comic books manage- and less than three hours to tell it. Something will have to go.
As I said in another thread, it's like putting a five-course dinner prepared by a Cordon Bleu chef in a McDonald's Happy Meal. There's too much "content", something will have to go, and whatever changes you make will inevitably be for the worse.

Oh well. The director is undeniably trying to recreate the visual style, let's home he sticks to the original storyline as well. I've heard unhappy rumors in that direction, as well.
*edit* Just so we're clear, the movie will probably still be awesome. I just don't expect it to live up to its source material.

Ah, Rorschach... Like everyone else, he's my favorite character out of the bunch. I don't see the world in black and white these days, but I have a certain admiration for him and love some of the lines he had. (I'm not in here with you, you're in here with me!) I have half a mind to make a Rorschach costume for when I take my son trick-or-treating this Halloween. Not too difficult, it's a matter of finding an appropriate hat and trenchcoat.

 

[Shadow-Knight]

From the trailers it looks like their staying true to the story, so theres no need to worry. Besides, it looks fantastic, and I don't say that lightly.

 

[Corven]

I just finished the series, and will most likely see the movie, it looks pretty good from the trailer I saw.

 

[The Shade]

Ah, Rorschach... Like everyone else, he's my favorite character out of the bunch. I don't see the world in black and white these days, but I have a certain admiration for him and love some of the lines he had. (I'm not in here with you, you're in here with me!) I have half a mind to make a Rorschach costume for when I take my son trick-or-treating this Halloween. Not too difficult, it's a matter of finding an appropriate hat and trenchcoat.

I found it easy enough to piece together my Rorschach costume for this year. And next year. I wanted to go as Rorschach THIS year because by next year the movie will be out, and everyone will probably be able to buy a Rorschach costume.

I don't think Rorschach is a good person at all. He's deeply messed up, he's massively right-wing, and has some strange ideas about morality. Still, to his credit, he stuck to the motto that the Ends don't justify the Means. (See the ending of the Watchmen). He knew how it was all going to end, but he didn't try to avoid it. He walked right into it.

 

[Copter400]

I hated the Graphic Novel. I felt it was boring and stodgy.

You're a brave man saying that here.

Still I think he's entitled to his opinion.

Really? I don't. Let's sacrifice him to Alan Moore!

 

[RufusMcLaser]

Really? I don't. Let's sacrifice him to Alan Moore!

Yeah, Al does kinda look like someone who would appreciate a human sacrifice.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

By the way, if you haven't already read it, MAD magazine did a terrific send-up of Watchmen in about eight pages. If you haven't read the comic, don't read it- there's a spoiler on most every page.
If you have enjoyed the graphic novel already, here you go. [http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/downloads/mad-botchmen.pdf]
Warning- it's PDF.
But worth your time anyway.