Watchmen

[chrysis]

My love for Alan Moore knows no bounds. However, this love also makes me nauseas at the prospect of Watchmen becoming a movie. Alan Moore's exceptional writing has been the victim of screenplay adapters several times already. These writers get Alan Moore's stories and dialogue on the table and then eat away at the perfect body of it, much like

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Re: watchmen the movie

[caerglas]

Saw your post through discojesus' friends page.

You know, I liked X-men and X2, but only because any deviation from canon was canonical--Marvel keeps changing origins and stories so often, ret-conning or getting their own histories wrong, so if a movie did it, well then...

But you're absolutely right. Watchmen is one of the best things since sliced bread, it's great in part because it knew when to quite. It had some very big things to say, and it said them over 12 issues--and then it stopped. The characters were intense and some of the best I've ever seen--Rorschach was one of the best conceived anti-hero characters I've ever read, and you know he's gonna be 'made cool.' This movie is likely going to be trash, and why? Why would someone reduce it to crap? Why bother making something just to defile it, to decrease it?

[delectolibertas]

I enjoyed V, but it was nothing compared to the book.

I want to read Watchmen, and I'm very worried about the movie. I'll see it in any case.

[kukuweaq]

That's why every comic book movie should only be made by a really intense fan, like Rodriguez's amazing rendition of Sin City, and it's not like that movie failed because they greenlit 2 sequels after it hit theaters

[delectolibertas]

Remember, remember, what's in the batter.
For chocolate chips, cinnamon, and chopped nuts.
For there should be no seasoning,
or to begin the reasoning,
of why the cookie should be warmed up.