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Av-merican
Un-Tenured Professor of Hockey
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 Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: First stills from the "Watchmen" film... |
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http://www.filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1275
For those who don't know, Watchmen was a ridiculously good miniseries created by the British duo of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons back in the '80s. I have serious doubts this will be any good since the last three major adaptions of Moore's work (V for Vendetta, From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) failed to convey all the depth Moore puts into his work. And yes, kids, believe it or not, some comic books do convey some depth. 
Nonetheless I'm definitely looking forward to this. |
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Tuzer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: First stills from the "Watchmen" film... |
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| Av-merican wrote: |
And yes, kids, believe it or not, some comic books do convey some depth.
Nonetheless I'm definitely looking forward to this. |
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the New Cunning Linguist
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This was well after my time (what isn't these days?) but I've always enjoyed the look of these graphic novels on the big screen. Heard a lot about the Watchmen - The movie geeks at AICN have been wetting themselves for years about this movie...
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Av-merican
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:10 am Post subject: Re: First stills from the "Watchmen" film... |
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| Tuzer wrote: |
| Av-merican wrote: |
And yes, kids, believe it or not, some comic books do convey some depth.
Nonetheless I'm definitely looking forward to this. |
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Damn straight!!!  |
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Bell Centre Ghost
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I really enjoyed "From Hell" - what was missing?
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Av-merican
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Bell Centre Ghost wrote: |
| I really enjoyed "From Hell" - what was missing? |
Actually I did too a great deal, and in defense of the Hughes Brothers trying to put the real depth Moore put into that story would've likely made the film about 8 hours long. One minor complaint I did have was that while it was graphic and haunting and brilliantly performed, it just wasn't nearly as scary as it should have been...
For Watchmen the problem is tenfold. There are so many details to every single character, even minor ones, that IMO make a movie version true to the source impossible. |
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Bell Centre Ghost
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Av-merican wrote: |
| Bell Centre Ghost wrote: |
| I really enjoyed "From Hell" - what was missing? |
while it was graphic and haunting and brilliantly performed, it just wasn't nearly as scary as it should have been...
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Ah. I thought the Hughes Bros. didn't make it scary because the graphic novel WASN'T scary. IIRC, I think they even left that out of the DVD extra that compared the graphic novel to the movie.
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