Watchmen

[innerSpaceman]

I imagine the creepy moving inkblots on the mask was one of the movie's major advantages over the comic. It was really cool-looking, and impossible to achieve on flat-panels.

But speaking of flat ... the movie just had a certain flat dullness that I feel couldn't have been the same tone as the GN. And it's not like me reading it now could reproduce the same effect it gave fanboys 20 years ago. So even though I'll likely check it out, I'm not expecting a revelation.


So I guess I'll have to take it on faith that it was great, but that filming it practically verbatem (sans the ending and the other comic story weaved thru) does not provide the same thrill.

To me, it was a very interesting exercise ... and I liked it well enough. But it did not soar. And I was expecting better.

Sheesh, the way fan peeps creamed their pants over the trailer led me to expect fantasticness.

On the other end of the spectrum, I know people completely unfamiliar with the material who are indeed expecting X-Men.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

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Sheesh, the way fan peeps creamed their pants over the trailer led me to expect fantasticness.
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Well, we know how the trailers for films really expresess exactly what the film will be. heheh. I think most of us Fan Peeps were more excited to see the visuals come to life than anything. I think AintItCoolNews.com's review more than explaines that idea.

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/node/40225

love that when I first discovered WATCHMEN, I had to wait between issues. That it was a part of that Sophmore High School Experience. That I got my driver’s license and had to drive 2 hours round trip to get the next issue, and that only my friends in my high school read those issues and shared that experience with me. That it wasn’t a single session. That it wasn’t a trade paperback experience, but something that I waited and wondered where it was all going. That I got aggravated that it wasn’t necessarily telling me the story I could have possibly conceived or made up at that age. That my friends and I sat around talking about it. Condemning & Condoning Ozymandias. That it introduced me to Alexander The Great.

I love that as I’ve run this site… I’ve been able to revisit the material continually and discover not only little things about that story that my brain wasn’t picking up on at the initial readings and even subsequent readings. And I love that in the future I will revisit that book, that material and discover ever more. There is a reason TIME MAGAZINE put it as one of the 100 greatest works. It is deeply textured and nuanced in a way that very few comic books have ever been.