Watchmen.

by **unriggable** on Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:31 pm

They're making a movie! They're making a movie! They're making a movie!
Discuss.

by **Skittles!** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:18 am

Who Watches The Watchmen?

Wow, I haven't heard that song for a long time. To hear the Prize Fighter Inferno!

by **heavycola** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:12 am

I heard that Terry Gilliam had pitched a treatment around the studios but that it was going to cost $1m per page of final script...

Alan Moore is amazing and Watchmen is probably teh greatest graphic novel ever. But the studios have managed to screw up THREE alan moore books: From Hell, V for Vendetta and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (YUK) so no, i don't hold out much hope. I know he doesn't bother with the filmmaking anymore.

EDIT: is that rorschach in your sig?

by **gimpyThewonder** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:42 am

V for Vendetta was excellent. One of the few instances where i agreed w/ story changes in a movie over the original work. Maybe its because i'm not a huge Alan Moore fan. Don't get me wrong, i totally respect the way he's elevated the field but he's been surpassed. Sandman, Preacher and Transmetropolitan are all better work imo.

As for Watchmen, Zack Snyder turned out a kick ass action flick w/ 300 so i'm hopeful. Obviously Watchmen isn't an action flick but at least the guy knows how to work well from comic source material

by **Dancing Mustard** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:30 am

Skittles! wrote:Who Watches The Watchmen?

Wow, I haven't heard that song for a long time. To hear the Prize Fighter Inferno!

Good tune. Nice reference.

by **heavycola** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:36 am

Dancing Mustard wrote:
Skittles! wrote:Who Watches The Watchmen?

Wow, I haven't heard that song for a long time. To hear the Prize Fighter Inferno!
Good tune. Nice reference.

Juvenal's Satire VI?
/twat

Gimpy - Robert Rodriguez/Sin City did Frank Miller justice. 300 was, you have to admit, pretty silly. It looked good here and there but it was pretty empty. Which would have been OK if it hadn't tried to pretend otherwise. Watchmen shouldn't be an action movie. But it will become one, and it will be all the shitter for it.

The others you mention are great comics (i haven't actully read transmetropolitan yet - i know i need to) but alan moore is still the daddy IMO. V for Vendetta the movie was so bad i turned it off.

by **Skittles!** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:46 am

Dancing Mustard wrote:
Skittles! wrote:Who Watches The Watchmen?

Wow, I haven't heard that song for a long time. To hear the Prize Fighter Inferno!
Good tune. Nice reference.

Indeed. Exactly why I said it.

by **unriggable** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:19 pm

What song? Isn't it a latin proverb?

by **gimpyThewonder** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:03 pm

you're right heavycola Sin City was a better adaptaion, and a better movie. But i saw the 300 panel at comicon and when Snyder was talking about Watchmen you could definitely tell he was intimidated and reverential. He seems to know where the work fits in the hearts of fanboys everywhere. As for V for Vendetta, we'll have to agree to disagree.

by **unriggable** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:35 pm

gimpyThewonder wrote:you're right heavycola Sin City was a better adaptaion, and a better movie. But i saw the 300 panel at comicon and when Snyder was talking about Watchmen you could definitely tell he was intimidated and reverential. He seems to know where the work fits in the hearts of fanboys everywhere. As for V for Vendetta, we'll have to agree to disagree.

V for vendetta was a good movie, but not for the same reasons it was a good book.

Sin City I think is a better movie than comic book (of course I saw the movie before reading the book so that might affect my perspective).

Watchmen.

Watchmen.

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