Watchmen Trailer

[Kimiden]

Please god, don't let this be another Casshern...

 

[Skinwalker]

Bah, Allen Moore didnt want ANY of his stuff translated to movies.

He may be a brilliant author, but he can be a dick sometimes when it comes to Hollywood.

Except if you think about the book it's clear it can't transition to film and still retain its glory.

 

[HaiTien78]

By a movie based on a comic which is not supposed to be adaptable as a movie, as stated by the author? :rolleyes2:

With the right vision and mindset anything can be adapted to anything :rolleyes2:

 

[Skinwalker]

With the right vision and mindset anything can be adapted to anything :rolleyes2:

not necessarily well. :rolleyes2:

 

[HaiTien78]

not necessarily well. :rolleyes2:

Well neither of us know if its going to be done well or crappy yet, we'll just have to wait 8 months and find out.

My predictions it will fair like V for Vendetta, will do spectacular as a movie itself but comic book fans will think its ****. Then again comic book fans think almost everything is **** when it comes to hollywood.

 

[Skinwalker]

Well neither of us know if its going to be done well or crappy yet, we'll just have to wait 8 months and find out.

My predictions it will fair like V for Vendetta, will do spectacular as a movie itself but comic book fans will think its ****. Then again comic book fans think almost everything is **** when it comes to hollywood.

screenplay was bad. But yes, it'd probably go the same as V for Vendetta (Which I haven't read).

 

[Skyknight]

Bah, Allen Moore didnt want ANY of his stuff translated to movies.

He may be a brilliant author, but he can be a dick sometimes when it comes to Hollywood.

Yeah, but half the films based on his comics suck anyway...he's of the opinion you ought to read a comic, not watch it at the theatre.

That soundtrack is the remix of a Smashing Pumpkins single that's available on the soundtrack of Batman and Robin

 

[MattComix]

I think Watchmen is grossly overrated. Yes, I said it.

Add to this that so many creators who have followed in the wake of it have all just imitated the violence and grimness to the point of total friggin absurdity and it's still going. Even the guy directing this thing has said in interviews "Everyone thinks Watchmen is a love letter to superheroes. It's not, it's a death threat!"

I never thought they deserved to die in the first place.

 

[Misfits923]

So, I finally got the see the trailer in HIGH DEF at the IMAX last night. The release date for this movie is 3/6/09, according to my theater. Also, the Watchmen will be released as an IMAX movie as well.

 

[Tanuki]

I read Watchmen and while I will admit that it is a good piece of literary comic writing. I fucking HATE it! It, and Batman the Dark Knight are the reasons that comics stopped being about heroes and started being about dicks with guns with no moral compass. Seriously, none of these people are actually heroes (Okay, Owlman is- but he's alone with assholes and sluts in this story) and in the end they accomplish nothing. Allan Moore only knows how to write pessimistic stories with a pornographic bend that cater to the base nihlism of the 1980's "Me Generation."

The example set in this comic paved the way for Wanted which is such an adolescent piece of crap - yet because it follows the Moore pattern of "Bad guys win and the good guys have to be worse to win" with ample cursing, and killing that people think it's brilliant. Watchmen and Allan Moore turned comics into an excuse to indulge base violent fantasies on paper.

That Said. I understand that I don't have to read it and that they have the right to publish it. I understand the idea of free speech and all that jazz, but I still feel intense dislike and dissappointment for what Watchmen did to comics and what it would have done to comic movies, had they not already have been ruined by movies made by later Alex Moore comics