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[NNR07]

and I'll look down and whisper "No."

Did anyone go to see the new Watchmen movie? It came out Friday.
I heard it was VERY close to the original book, down to nearly every detail, but that the ending was a little rushed. My friend went to see the movie yesterday and she's going in Imax sometime later this week, and I bought a paperback version of the Graphic Novel for $20 yesterday.

I also heard that Rorschach was perfect in the way he was portrayed. I personally thought so.

For those of you that want to see it, it's about 3 hours long: so brace yourself!

[infractus]

Definitely a movie I'm planning on going to see very soon. 3 hours is nothing after going to see all the Lord of the Rings movies, hah.

I would've liked to have gotten through the rest of the comic before hand, but I let my friend borrow it to read and he hasn't gotten all the way through it yet.. leaves me with the eternal debate, see it or read THEN see it.

[Lady Spritzy]

I've seen Watchmen! It's really good-
But extremely violent. And it has... adult situations, to be nice about it. Don't bring little kids to go see it with you, that's about all I've got to say on that matter.
But besides the gore and sex, the character developement and plot are pretty good, the idea behind the plot is awesome, and though the ending isn't quite the happiest, it is all over a good movie.
I suggest seeing it, but be careful who you bring.

Note- I haven't read the graphic novel, just seen the movie, so I can't say squat on that matter.

[NNR07]

I bought the graphic novel and I'm currently reading it, and from what I've seen the 'adult stuff' in the novel is more implied in the graphic novel. However, I haven't gotten to the romance sections yet so I wouldn't know P:.
But yeah, it's rated R so definitely not something you want to bring younger kids to. There's also a lot of scenes in the graphic novel that aren't too violent, but are still emotionally troublesome like

Spoiler

The Comedian's murder of the pregnant Vietnamese Woman

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Definitely a movie I'm planning on going to see very soon. 3 hours is nothing after going to see all the Lord of the Rings movies, hah.

AHAHA, i lol'd. Yeah. 3 hours is nothing after you sit through a lot of 'epic films' :B.

[viperxmns]

Read the book a while ago (rereading now), interested to see the movie, whenever that may be..

..hurm.

[NNR07]

First read for me; I love Moore's style in Watchmen might I add <:.
I also have slight interest in seeing the comic-to-episodic version of the book that was released awhile back.

[Mitsuu]

I really don't want to see this movie and I guess that's that. Loved the book, though. Anyways, does anyone besides me think the dialogue in Watchmen (and any Alan Moore comic for that matter) wasn't that great? Each character has their own personality, sure, but the each character's dialogue sounds the same, except for Rorschach. It all feels the same. And a lot of the dialogue just seemed unrealistic.

[Nemoide]

I like Moore's dialog but I'll admit that it can be clunky at times. I found that especially the case in his "1963" miniseries.

Anyway, I'm hoping to avoid the movie because it seems disrespectful to Alan Moore, even if it was created to be as "true" as possible. Just pointing a camera at re-creations of the comic seems a little pointless, doesn't it? I also don't really like how everyone now refers to Watchmen as a "book" or a "novel" (or even "graphic novel" which is pretty much just a marketing term) instead of a comic. It's the high-art/low-art divide I'm not a fan of?
But if the movie gets people reading Alan Moore and turns people on to brilliant ideas and high standards of writing, then that is good. If folks are inspired to create their own works that are of equally high caliber, than that is excellent.

[Mitsuu]

I like Moore's dialog but I'll admit that it can be clunky at times. I found that especially the case in his "1963" miniseries.

Anyway, I'm hoping to avoid the movie because it seems disrespectful to Alan Moore, even if it was created to be as "true" as possible. Just pointing a camera at re-creations of the comic seems a little pointless, doesn't it? I also don't really like how everyone now refers to Watchmen as a "book" or a "novel" (or even "graphic novel" which is pretty much just a marketing term) instead of a comic. It's the high-art/low-art divide I'm not a fan of?
But if the movie gets people reading Alan Moore and turns people on to brilliant ideas and high standards of writing, then that is good. If folks are inspired to create their own works that are of equally high caliber, than that is excellent.

Well, I just don't think the movie will be any good. And... I refer to all comics as books. Though, the other day someone tried to convince me that Watchmen was never a serialized comic.

[NNR07]

I always thought they all sounded different. It's the way I read it, though, I suppose.
For instance, I see Dr Manhatten's speech as a little bit more void of emotion (not by much, as it is obvious that he isn't emotionless) and a bit more technical and even proper than everyone elses, while Dan/Nite Owl's is a bit more... nerdy, for lack of a better term :P. And I also see Ozymandias as being more proper and trim in his style of speech. It's a bit subtle for all the characters, personally.

Also, I always refer to Watchmen as a Graphic Novel because that's generally how most people read it now, opposed to comic edition, as well as the fact that it won Time's "Best 100 Novels" award as a... well, Graphic Novel novel xD;;.

[iLLViLLAiN]

I really enjoyed that movie. I cringed a lot though. So gory. Still I can see myself watching it again. I still need to read the comic though.

[NNR07]

Yes, very gory indeed.
Yeah, the book is a bit better. They edited out the comic that parallel's

Spoiler

Veidt's scheme

from the movie, and instead are giving it a movie version in the director's cut/DVD if I recall.
Also, this made me lol:
http://www.newground...tal/view/485797

[marymont]

I think I like that flash animation more than the movie, not that it wasn't good, but boy, did they drag it out.

[DylanJohn]

I thought it was pretty good, about the best you could do with the source material. Things are missing or changed or streamlined to fit it into a reasonable running time, but it still works fairly well, things still make sense, and it's still entertaining. Could do with a bit less slowmo and more realistic fight scences without bones snapping out of arms or whatever, but I can deal with that stuff after the general faithfulness Snyder managed to show.


Looking forward to the director's cut.

[NNR07]

Oh, yes, compound fractures don't happen that easily I'm afraid to say!

Same. I hear Tales of the Black Freighter is coming out in a few days; a friend of mine who works at a rental store already has a copy of it.