Look, again i appear unexpectedly to say something about a comic book movie: Zack Snyder does not deserve to make a Watchmen movie. No, he does not. It is all about the letter, the filigreed, illumined letter, and not the spirit. (Speaking of, there is one person who deserves to make a Watchmen movie less, his last name is Miller and his first name is Used To Be A Good Writer.)
Look, i still hate the Comedian. The world hates me because it conspired to have Jeffrey Dean 'volcanically hot father of incestuous and lovable demon-hunting brothers on craptastic CW show' Morgan play him.
But such power, such obscene power. Of course i will run to see it. (Ha! Foiled your crude punnage!) I will be wearing my Nite-Owl shirt. I will be the only person in the audience wearing the super-awesome Nite-Owl shirt, make no mistake.
Is this all there is. I feel like something that just crawled out of Alan Moore's beard. Which is an interdimensional pathway paved with, i do not know, mind-altering substances?
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I too have reservations about how well Watchmen can be turned into a film. I thought Comedian was cool though. And night-owl shirt! Neat.
you have a nite-owl shirt? awesome! also, alan moore hates the movie himself, you know that, right? (find the link to his interview in my second last post, if you don't.)
but then, why'd frank miller make a movie at all?
Elendil (Tolkien forever! or something.): I think many of us with reservations will go see it and enjoy parts of it nonetheless - some kind of unclassifiable geeky desire to see just how this or that unfilmable page translates to film, even.
Monidipa: Yes, and his reasons are very good. But impure pleasures are pleasures still.
Miller likes to hurt our delicate hearts?
Off topic comment. You like Michael Chabon! He's my new favourite writer, read two brilliant books by him recently, Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonderboys. I found my copy of K & K in Cal, possibly at Crossword, you didn't look hard enough.
Srinonda: Yess. I managed to find his books eventually. A great favourite of mine, too.
Now that I have read it and am enamoured by it, I shall emphatically state that Jude Law would have been perfect for Adrian Veidt. P.E.R.F.E.C.T.
His character needs that hollywood, larger than life glamour to be pulled off nicely.
I am muchly sad that this did not happen.
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