The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I'll look down and whisper 'No.'
that's actually the watcher from marvel comics who has nothing to do with alan moore's watchmen. but yes, i have read watchmen and i used to love it. but i don't know, there's something about zack snyder. i felt like he located the most morally repugnant elements of 300 and really brought them to the forefront. watching the trailer for watchmen made me go back and read the wikipedia entries about the series which then led me to question what it was about the series that i actually liked. i can identify lots of elements i don't like, but i can't really put my finger on what i do like anymore.
I like the parts of the Watchmen about how the heroes/vigilantes are basically just as flawed and broken as the criminals they are fighting. I could do without the rest of the story.
it's definitely a milestone for the genre of comic books. i'd say that in that sense, it is definitely very innovative and in a sense it's a very well crafted story insofar as it takes a medium that no one really fully believed could bear a thematic load like this and proved that it could.
but i guess what i'm saying is that lots of books or works of art could fit that description while having very few people who would say that they liked them-chaucer's the caterbury tales, for example. it's the first literary work in vernacular english and was written at a time that the english language was thought to be too crude for true literature to be written in it. and while very few would question its significance and many would even say that they appreciate it, very few would say they enjoy it.
in any case, the more i think about it, the more watchmen strikes me as an interesting exercise in style and craft with very little at its heart. its cast of characters is cobbled together from various other comic books. and ideologically, it seems
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but i guess what i'm saying is that lots of books or works of art could fit that description while having very few people who would say that they liked them-chaucer's the caterbury tales, for example. it's the first literary work in vernacular english and was written at a time that the english language was thought to be too crude for true literature to be written in it. and while very few would question its significance and many would even say that they appreciate it, very few would say they enjoy it.
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