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Originally Posted by ZombieMessiah
Schoolboy error!
Anyway, it's a film based on an Alan Moore comic - if history's anything to go by then it's going to be bollocks. Shame, that.
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The trailer's pretty promising, though, isn't it? The visual style is way off, but things like the sand palace rising from the surface of Mars and Ozymandias clobbering the assassin with the pole are so faithful to the comic it hurts. Let's just hope they don't do something daft like changing the ending to make it yet another 'Summer Blockbuster' showdown with a supervillain.
Publicity shots like that are keeping me hopeful. Maybe they'll pull it off somehow. Harder things have been adapted well - LA Confidential, for example.
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Originally Posted by DoodgeGant
Allan Moore's been a bit of a douche when it comes to him picking the right people to do his comics
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He doesn't pick anybody, mate. In fact, he's refused to have anything to do with film adaptations of his comics since The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and generally doesn't see any value in them. These artistic ventures are ususally by people who can't read anything without wanting to leave their mark on it, and have to shoehorn it into a different medium to feel like they created something. And earn a lot of money.
Snyder seems determined to make Alan Moore's Watchmen, though, and not The Warner Brothers' Watchmen. Hollywood has certain ideas about what a superhero film should be, and Watchmen doesn't fit any of them. It's a bit hard to see who the film's supposed to appeal to, really. Could anybody who hasn't read the comic get into it? It's going to be pretty funny listening to kids at the cinema asking why there are all these people in rubbish costumes, and why Batman's in it.