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Post by Amazing Mr. K on Mar 25, 2009 20:27:45 GMT -5
So, what do my fellow forumites think of it?
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Post by Lore on Mar 25, 2009 22:06:05 GMT -5
Eh.
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Post by MalkavianMarine on Mar 26, 2009 9:17:24 GMT -5
I never have read the graphic novel so I didn't go into pissed off like most of my friends.
I liked it.
I liked how everything progressed, I LOVED how everyone got a back story (Rorschach, holy crap!), and I thought the ending was fitting.
The BIG blue penis really didn't bother me like it did some people I know, it is film and that is art.
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Post by nefariousdro on Apr 8, 2009 19:00:45 GMT -5
I'm not sure what my opinion is worth, but after watching a couple of trailers, I decided to not see it. The graphic novel is so layered and complex, how could any movie do it justice? I really wish they'd have left it alone.
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Post by Lore on Apr 8, 2009 22:14:30 GMT -5
Yeah, honestly, if you love the book, there's really no reason to see the movie unless you really want to see the character's portrayed and moving around. It was fine I guess but it just fell flat with me. Fun to watch but otherwise wasn't impressed.
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Post by nefariousdro on Apr 12, 2009 9:27:27 GMT -5
It might seem counter-intuitive at first, but I've found myself thinking that comics are fairly difficult to translate to a movie. The problem is partly because comics are so visual, how do you keep the look of the comic, but make it practical for people to move around in and such? Comics also have the same difficulty a good novel or short story has: a big part is up to the imagination of the reader, and you can layer your stories with subplots, etc. that are hard to convey in a 2-hour movie. Especially if you're dealing with characters that have been in long-running books that have alot of history. I think one of the best illustrated story to movie conversions I've seen lately is still "Stardust" and that's because they stayed true to the spirit of the story, but were allowed to make alot of changes to make it work as a movie. Watchmen has so much going on, to do it just you almost have to make a series of movies, and even then... how do you include the parallel stories of the kid reading the pirate comic and the newstand guy, and the events of the wider world? I hear they left all of that out of the movie, but that's kind of the point in the book: so many coinciding events, is anything truly random? I have alot of great memories of so many good things that got trampled when Hollywood got their hands on it, I knew a movie would come out, eventually. I'd probably be better off if I'd never have read the book.
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