Post by jacksonpostal on Jul 20, 2009 4:06:03 GMT -5
ok first of all... did anyone in here fucking see this movie???
i'm not gonna do a review so much as a defense. to explain... i'm a big fan of this graphic novel. it's on the new york times 100 best novels for a fucking reason. if you can get past your ignorance and see that it's much more than a "long comic book" you'll see that it truely is a good story that i think most people with a taste for literature should read.
with that said, as much fun as i had with the movie, i was highly disappointed. mainly bc it didn't stay true.
now i know most comic book movie adaptations throw and mix plots to the point where it makes little to no sense and is just a pile of ash where the comic books use to be... and some how pulls off a success. but you have to remember most comic books have numerous variations. variations in story and in character. so it's easy for the movies to kind of bend the rules so to speak.
with watchmen you can't do that. why? there's only fucking one. this is why alan moore said it was unfilmable. now i did enjoy and yes will go get it on blu-ray this tuesday(plug) but this is not the movie watchmen deserved.
i'm not going to give shit away except to tell you that scenes were mixed for time, important scenes were changed out all together and in fact made longer, characters completely left out, and an entirely different ending which may have looked to save the point but in reality... fucking didn't.
i think they did a decent job of capturing the watchmen universe as well as most of the characters. but that's like visiting disneyland the day all the best rides are shut down, the monorail doesn't fuck work, and guess what? mickey mouse is dead.
i wanted so bad to enjoy this movie but i just couldn't. i found myself asking half way through, "if you were going to leave out so much why did you even bother" and it's not like the harry potter films. where harry potter fans bitch because a single chapter of a 104 chapter book was left out in the adaptation. no!!! bc the films(half of them) are still very entertaining. if i hadn't loved the graphic novel so much, i would honestly find it very hard to watch this.
it's fun to see events and awesome characters come to lif eon the big screen, but when it's shortened and characters seem like they're sleep walking, it leaves a bad after taste.
i'm not gonna do a review so much as a defense. to explain... i'm a big fan of this graphic novel. it's on the new york times 100 best novels for a fucking reason. if you can get past your ignorance and see that it's much more than a "long comic book" you'll see that it truely is a good story that i think most people with a taste for literature should read.
with that said, as much fun as i had with the movie, i was highly disappointed. mainly bc it didn't stay true.
now i know most comic book movie adaptations throw and mix plots to the point where it makes little to no sense and is just a pile of ash where the comic books use to be... and some how pulls off a success. but you have to remember most comic books have numerous variations. variations in story and in character. so it's easy for the movies to kind of bend the rules so to speak.
with watchmen you can't do that. why? there's only fucking one. this is why alan moore said it was unfilmable. now i did enjoy and yes will go get it on blu-ray this tuesday(plug) but this is not the movie watchmen deserved.
i'm not going to give shit away except to tell you that scenes were mixed for time, important scenes were changed out all together and in fact made longer, characters completely left out, and an entirely different ending which may have looked to save the point but in reality... fucking didn't.
i think they did a decent job of capturing the watchmen universe as well as most of the characters. but that's like visiting disneyland the day all the best rides are shut down, the monorail doesn't fuck work, and guess what? mickey mouse is dead.
i wanted so bad to enjoy this movie but i just couldn't. i found myself asking half way through, "if you were going to leave out so much why did you even bother" and it's not like the harry potter films. where harry potter fans bitch because a single chapter of a 104 chapter book was left out in the adaptation. no!!! bc the films(half of them) are still very entertaining. if i hadn't loved the graphic novel so much, i would honestly find it very hard to watch this.
it's fun to see events and awesome characters come to lif eon the big screen, but when it's shortened and characters seem like they're sleep walking, it leaves a bad after taste.