Graphic Adaptation
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Ugliest Richard Nixon Ever! This guy just looked so fake, I hated him.
From www.metronews.ca:
Zack Snyder is no stranger to controversy. The slick, visionary director wet his beak in the medium of music videos before raising universal horror geek ire when he chose, as his first feature, a remake of the epic cult classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead.
But he emerged from that experience relatively unscathed - with his fresh, breathlessly-paced thriller being embraced by both mainstream critics and hardcore genre buffs alike.
Now, after tackling graphic novel greatness with the thundering 300 (and receiving similar flack for being both racist and historically revisionist), Snyder is poised to unleash his most high stakes and potentially controversial effort yet: A gigantic - and mostly faithful - rendering of Alan Moore’s celebrated anti-superhero allegory Watchman
Opening Friday, it’s a picture that at first appears to be another comic book film but is, in reality, light years removed from Spider-Man.
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