Cool. This makes me feel better about not going to see it. I don't like graphic violence, and I heard on a critic show that it was graphic. So, thanks!
I should elaborate that since I didn't read the graphic novel, I wouldn' have the insight, and based on what you're saying, I would probably be lost, or just not as into it. So thanks. Really, I hope I didn't come off rude/snobby at all.
not at all, I know that graphic violence isn't your thing. And, in truth, Watchmen and almost anything written by Alan Moore isn't a lot of anybody things.
I'm a big proponent of "don't do things just because you think you have to" and I think you're making a good choice. I'm not going to bash you for it :)
I thought someone told me once that Marvel tends to be safe, because Stan Lee wants people of all ages to see the films, because kids read his comics. Did I dream this fact, or is it true?
I hadn't read the book before cause that era of comic art is hard as fuck for me to get into but it might not sit around on my bookshelf for the length that V for Vendetta's trade has before I read it.
That said, I wasn't lost at all in the movie, had a pretty good idea of what was going on at all times and what to expect and found most of the characters fairly decently done.
Oddly enough, someone else on my friend list who saw it commented "Big blue dong for everyone!", or something to that effect. Now I just think it's a movie about discolored genitalia.
I have to agree. I liked the movie. It was beautifully done and a lovely interpretation of the graphic novel. But it's to be viewed in addition to reading the book. In particular, the technique of pairing a story in real time with a thematiclly related flashback was missing. The stories of regular people that lent so much humanity to the graphic novel were missing. But the movie itself was really wonderful.
Like I said - I really wish they focused more on the story. I enjoy dystopias and alternate histories. I don't care if they never come true or if they were written by a paranoid, just as long as they were written well. I like the fact that Watchmen was very much a product of its time and I wish they had incorporated that into the movie.
My favorite part of the movie? THe opening credits. I was completely moved by it and wish that they had carried that emotion through the movie.
There has been, for the last several years, a belief in my local geek community (a node? it's more than just that Watchmen is the progenitor of a lot of modern TV Scifi in many ways. BSG has the same tormented and complicated protagonists and antagonists, TDK reflects a more nihilist view of the Joker, in no small part as response to Rorschach, and a bunch of other parallels too numerous to list here. So, it's crucial to understand the parent work when the child works are so prevalent.
There's no question Watchmen has been influential, there's no question that its tentacles reach far and wide, so its effects on Geek Culture are clear & important, which means you need to see it/read it in order to understand what follows it, what takes influence from it, etc.
Something can be Important without necessarily also being Good.
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I'm a big proponent of "don't do things just because you think you have to" and I think you're making a good choice. I'm not going to bash you for it :)
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I thought someone told me once that Marvel tends to be safe, because Stan Lee wants people of all ages to see the films, because kids read his comics. Did I dream this fact, or is it true?
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That said, I wasn't lost at all in the movie, had a pretty good idea of what was going on at all times and what to expect and found most of the characters fairly decently done.
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My favorite part of the movie? THe opening credits. I was completely moved by it and wish that they had carried that emotion through the movie.
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There's no question Watchmen has been influential, there's no question that its tentacles reach far and wide, so its effects on Geek Culture are clear & important, which means you need to see it/read it in order to understand what follows it, what takes influence from it, etc.
Something can be Important without necessarily also being Good.
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