Haven’t seen Watchmen
April 7th, 2009I was trying to figure out why I have so little interest in seeing the Watchmen movie and I think it’s because the adaptation is supposed to be so faithful to the original.
In that case, what’s the point? It’s not going to be better than the original.
I wanted to see Sam Raimi’s take on Spider-man, Jon Favreau’s take on Iron Man, Bryan Singer’s take on X-Men and Superman, Christopher Nolan’s take on Batman, Tim Burton’s take on Batman and Ang Lee’s take on the Hulk.
In all those cases, I like the director’s work and wanted to see their version of the character(s) and story.
The only thing I’m curious to see in Zack Snyder’s take on Watchmen is seeing how well they recreated the sets and scenes from the comic.
Watchmen is simply a brilliant graphic novel. The design, the execution, the literary strength not only expanded the comics form, it fully embraced the medium and was a uniquely built from the ground up to work as a comic book.
A movie version of it holds, for me, as much interest as an operatic version or a radio version.
I’ll probably see it some day. But I’m in no hurry.
I did reread the graphic novel though. It’s still terrific.
– Steve
Stumble it!
April 8th, 2009 at 6:38 am
The movie couldn’t (or at least didn’t try very hard to) capture Dr. Manhattan’s sense of time as well as the comic did. I can’t be sure whether it was the fault of the medium, or of a desire to make it less confusing for the average movie-goer.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Surely you only have to read “directed by Zack Snyder” to know why you don’t want to see Watchmen.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Hold up, can anyone honestly say they wouldn’t be psyched to see/hear a operatic/radio adaptation of Watchmen? That would be AWESOME.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Meh, it was a better action-adventure story, but less impressive as a work of art. And they really did lose something by not properly explaining Manhattan’s sense of time – those scenes just felt like normal flashbacks.
I saw it mostly because I thought 300 was one of the most beautifully pure movies I have ever seen, even with the bad acting and dialog. I thought he deserved a shot, and he did as good of a job as I expected anyone to be able to do.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I felt the film was dissappointing less because of its slavishness and more because it is simply out of its time. I have reread the book since and it so powerfully captures the sense of almost claustrophobic fear that one felt in the cold war I dont think anyone born after about 1980 can really get it (I am at last become an Oldie…*sigh)
Also, the “new” ending was as naive and unlikely as the original was (sorry Big Al’, but it was…)
Phill
April 11th, 2009 at 12:09 am
I never read the comic, but the movie, regardless of how true it is to said comic, has no literary worth whatsoever. Poor character development that was actually irrelevant to the story at hand coupled with a story that was, itself, cliche and uninspired pretty much ruined my afternoon. So, honestly, that’s not a concern.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
idk what the hell you guys are talking about, the comic was a 10 and the movie was fantastic, well you know some don’t have good taste in movies!!!! like you guys!!!!!!