the watchmen movie

[coopertoons]

i want to see how many people are excited about the watchmen movie

 

[silentsentinel]

I would be excited, but I have no idea how they are going to transfer it from comic form to movie form.

And congratulations on your first post.

 

[anNIALLator]

Yeah, it should be interesting how they convert it to film. When's it out?

 

[wgreer25]

I am, but I am nervous. I loved the novel, but don't know how well it will transfer to film.

 

[desert_fox]

I'm extremely excited about this movie, but like a lot of people I'm worried about how the content will transfer over. So far though I'm happy with how it looks. All the characters were pretty much spot on. I was especially excited at how Dr. Manhattan turned out. The only other thing that is troubling is the lawsuit Fox issued against Warner Bros. It'll probably delay the film from it's March 2009 release. I just hope the movie as a whole doesn't get canned. That would be such a waste.

 

[Break]

It'll be a decent enough movie, but pale in comparison with the original, and completely mangle several important plot elements, as well as many of the ideas the author had tried to convey.

Stock description of anything-to-cinema transitions. Considering it's Watchmen we're talking about, no matter how well it captures the spirit of the book, or how true it keeps to the plot, it will have to ignore one of the largest factors that made the comic book so important. It's simply impossible that it won't.

Even so, I was kind of looking forward to it, but then I watched the trailer. They raped Rorschach's line. I now expect it to be a generic Hollywood superhero movie.

 

[ace_of_something]

I'm excited. But trying to keep guarded so as not to let them break my heart.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I quite excited for this movie, as you can imagine

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I heard a rumor that Alan Moore, who ofcoarse is famous for hating hollywoods renditions of his storys, said that the script was as close to the origanal as it could be. Wheather the director and Actors are up to scratch is a different matter. Still, I have a massive nerdgalasm ever time I see the trailer.

 

[Verigan]

I'm not so convinced. This is also the guy who directed 300, which I might actually have enjoyed (somewhat) except for his ridiculous overuse of slow motion. If Watchmen inherited that, no matter how much I like the source material and no matter how competent the adaptation, I'll still hate it.

 

[JordanDH]

The story is unbelievably good, but there's no way it can work properly as a film. It might be good, even excellent, but it won't live up to the GN. Maybe a series of short films. There's so much stuff to fit in, that the story will have to change drastically.

 

[Rankao]

I'm not so convinced. This is also the guy who directed 300, which I might actually have enjoyed (somewhat) except for his ridiculous overuse of slow motion. If Watchmen inherited that, no matter how much I like the source material and no matter how competent the adaptation, I'll still hate it.

It didn't bother me that much but I think I understand where you are coming from.

 

[coopertoons]

i love the book and from what i've seen in the trailers i looks spot on to the book the and they are also releasing the tales of the black freitghter on a dvd

 

[curlycrouton]

What's The Watchmen?

 

[Redlac]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

It looks OK to me. Me and my buddy have made a pact to see it in our nearest Imax Cinema. It's not going to be as good as the comic, no book/comic to movie can ever truly succeed because everyone has their own mental image of the characters voices and so on. As long as it's mostly there I'll be happy.

 

[Corven]

I dont know anything about Watchmen but its directed by Zack Snyder so thats good enough for me.
He proved himself with Dawn of the Dead.

Okay just looked at a few screen shots. Watchmen is basically just ripping off a whole lot of other super hero characters... interesti*falls asleep* Superhero movies suck >.<

If you haven't read the comic(graphic novel) you don't know what your talking about.

 

[Space Spoons]

When I heard that a Watchmen movie was coming out, I was skeptical. After some research and serious thought, I decided that the way they handled Dr. Manhattan, visually, would be my deal breaker. I had accepted that there was no way the story would translate seamlessly to the screen... I would settle for seeing Dr. Manhattan portrayed properly.

Well... They did it right. I have no idea how they pulled it off, but they did it right.

After seeing the trailer and several screenshots, I've gone from "skeptical" to "cautiously optimistic." I was surprised by how many images from the film seemed to be shot-for-shot remakes of shots from the comic. It's a good sign.

 

[GenHellspawn]

They really, really need to make a new trailer. Nothing wrong with it, but unless you've read the book, you won't have any idea waht's going on.

 

[catalyst8]

Even so, I was kind of looking forward to it, but then I watched the trailer. They raped Rorschach's line. I now expect it to be a generic Hollywood superhero movie.

I couldn't agree more (or Moore - ahem, sorry). I think that they've miscast Haley as Kovacs/Rorschach entirely. Whilst Snyder is excellent at recreating Miller's work on the screen and he'll undoubtedly do a wonderful job with Gibbons' visuals, he'll completely drop the ball when it comes to doing justice to Moore's cynical but honest satire of human nature and Machiavellian politics. It's one thing to adapt something like Miller's 300, which is essentially visually driven and published as storyboard anyway, and quite another to attempt the same with something of such a narrative complexity as Watchmen.

I really hope I'm wrong, but given Snyder's track record and the Hollywood propensity for condescending to its audience it seems unlikely.

 

[Reillk]

Still holding out for hope that Watchmen won't turn into some generic action superhero comic, although I don't really see how they could do a completely faithful adaption of the GN.