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dark_angel1383

Watching the Watchmen

Dec 10, 2008 11:37

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."

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movie, watchmen, comics, dork

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rae_beta December 10 2008, 18:24:06 UTC

I love Watchmen, which is, in large part, why I'm dreading the movie. As I see it, Watchmen isn't just a story told in comics format--it is a comic. The form is inseparable from the story. That doesn't mean it can't be adapted to a new medium, but it does mean that it should be adapted based on the spirit rather than the letter of the original, with changes that allow the story to integrate with its new form as completely and consciously as the original. Snyder seems to have done the opposite--stuck slavishly close to the original story, at the cost of much of what made it revolutionary to begin with. He's too wrapped up in the wrong details, missing the forest for the snazzy computer-rendered trees.

I have no doubt that Watchmen will be a visually breathtaking movie, and probably even a good movie, but I also can't imagine from what I've seen that it'll come anywhere close to doing the original justice. The best works in any medium resist adaptation, and Snyder just doesn't have the chops to make a movie that is to film what the ( ... )

dark_angel1383 December 10 2008, 19:08:59 UTC

I'm also nitpicky when it comes to movie adaptaions of comics, although I'm not limited to that. My grumpiness about adaptations carries over into the land of tv shows and movies based of any written work to which I've attached myself.

Watchmen is one of the books I read when I was still practically a kid and it blew my mind. I'm apprehensive that the movie will be the sort of movie that would make Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons proud. Every scene will be rendered similarly to the comic, right down to the newspaper vendor but it will feel hollow, and things will be lost. I've heard the ending will be dramatically different but still encompass the spirit of the comic's ending. I'm going to be pissed if everyone lives happily ever after. I'm trying to keep an open mind and succeeding thus far. We'll see how I do when it actually comes out ( ... )