Watchmen

Dashingmajor · 18th July 2008, 10:19 PM

Aside from Billy Corgan whining, this is very, very cool

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Johnny5 · 18th July 2008, 10:48 PM

Hmmmmmm, looks like your typical comic book movie, the costumes look awful.

Watchmen isn't your typical comic book. It was unique and this doesn't look like it's going to capture any of that. The characterisation is massively deep and that's half the enjoyment.
Plus the creators don't want anything to do with it, always a bad sign.

Sceptical. It's like if they made a movie of the Sandman series, it'd just suck.
Hopefully I am completely wrong and this is great though.

Johnny5 · 18th July 2008, 10:54 PM

Hm, I just watched it again, it could be good I guess. Rorschach looks pretty spot on.

The dialogue of the movie is going to need to be great.

Dashingmajor · 18th July 2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny5

Hmmmmmm, looks like your typical comic book movie, the costumes look awful.

Watchmen isn't your typical comic book. It was unique and this doesn't look like it's going to capture any of that. The characterisation is massively deep and that's half the enjoyment.

Sceptical. It's like if they made a movie of the Sandman series, it'd just suck.
Hopefully I am completely wrong and this is great though.

The only costumes that don't match pretty spot on with the book are Ozymandias, and Silk Spectre. But that's understandable.
Shot for shot, it looks bang on with the book.

I don't think a film of Sandman could be made. It would have to be all CGI, and that would be crap.

Johnny5 · 18th July 2008, 11:14 PM

There's been talk of a Sandman movie for years, I'm just glad they haven't made it already because if they'd done it 10 years ago it would've SUCKED.
I think a lot might depend on the reaction to Spielberg's and Jackson's upcoming CGI movies and the quality of them before anyone pushed it into that direction.

They're undoubtedly my favourite series of comic book so hopefully if they do it, it's treated with care and attention.
Gaiman would probably do the screenplay as well.

A film of American Gods would be much cooler, with Guillermo del Toro as director!!

My First Kev · 19th July 2008, 01:56 PM

I'd love to see Transmetropolitan done as a movie.

As for Watchmen it looks quite pretty, I'll reserve my excitment till I lean a bit more about the movie though.

chrono · 19th July 2008, 09:55 PM

It does look surprisingly sexy. Thing is, everyone's going to hate it! It's simply not the kind of thing that can really be made into a film that's going to set the multiplexes on fire, while the slightest compromise will annoy fans of the comic. On the plus side, Zack Snyder sounds like he is someone who loves Watchmen, and the fact that he's shooting the Black Freighter stuff for the DVD release is heartening.

I've always thought that Watchmen would make a shit film, but could be turned into a freakin awesome mini series by HBO or someone like that... oh well.

Dashingmajor · 19th July 2008, 11:53 PM

What I've seen so far looks damn sweet. It remains to be seen whether it lives up to this. I hope it does, but the transformation of Dr Manhattan almost does it for me.

Action_Donkwaa · 30th July 2008, 12:33 PM

I thought the trailer looked pretty great. Really hope it manages to get close to the book in terms of quality and depth!

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Dashingmajor Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Cupar Posts: 1,762 Band: Myvatn	Watchmen Aside from Billy Corgan whining, this is very, very cool Empire: Movie News

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Johnny5 cock in hand Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 1,986	Hmmmmmm, looks like your typical comic book movie, the costumes look awful. Watchmen isn't your typical comic book. It was unique and this doesn't look like it's going to capture any of that. The characterisation is massively deep and that's half the enjoyment. Plus the creators don't want anything to do with it, always a bad sign. Sceptical. It's like if they made a movie of the Sandman series, it'd just suck. Hopefully I am completely wrong and this is great though. Last edited by Johnny5 : 18th July 2008 at 10:58 PM.

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