At least the Doom Patrol movie isn't likely getting made...

[r_lex]

Wandering down Granville street, killing time before meeting up with Rheanna. Walking past the Golden Age, I pause to look at the enormous Watchmen display in their front window. It’s been weird for me, seeing bus stop ads, street posters and copies of the book for sale at the supermarket. I was 16 the first time I read Watchmen, a battered copy of

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[mildred_strange]

I sort of know how you feel. With the Neil Gaiman movies though. They make me sad. Stardust almost made me lose my faith in humanity, and now they're talking about a Death movie. But you're right. It's not mine, and Mr. Gaiman can do what ever he likes to make sure he sleeps on mountains of gold.

It's the painful part of being pretentious. We eventually have to share.

[littlegirltoast]

What if everything that ever meant anything to me growing up is destined to be commodified and sold off as tacky merchandise?

I grapple with this in a slightly different way - I know for certain that practically everything that ever meant anything to me growing up was designed to be commodified and sold off as tacky merchandise. Now THAT is a rough one.

[glassk]

i really liked Stardust as a movie. And I really liked Coraline. In 3D!!!!!

Although the way you phrase it sounds very horrible.

i didn't "grow up" with any of this, so to me its all new delightful things. I'm sure there's some impressionable young kids that are going to like these things as much as you did when you were little.

I wish things I'd imagined got hugely popular. I think I'll go make that happen now...

[adamkjohnson]

Fifteen years from now the movie will be made and gone (with maybe a horrifying straight-to-DVD sequel or two), the action figures packed away and the Now A Major Motion Picture versions of the book showing up on used bookstore shelves.

But you'll still have the book and the memory of how you felt the first time cracked it open to read the story. It is yours. And it doesn't stop being yours just because it gets famous for a little while.

[logik]

"At least the Doom Patrol movie isn't likely getting made... "

Give it time.

An knowing a little of how Hollywood works... it will probably star Will Smith as Cliff.

*shudder*

[r_lex]

I always thought Bruce Willis would make a good voice for Cliff.