Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

you watched this why?

hahaha I saw you'd posted to this thread, Alex, and was all "I bet he HATED this" to myself

If it's "unwatchable", by definition he couldn't have watched it.

"you watched this why?"

Someone one told me "well it's not the comic, but it works on its own terms". That person is getting a stern talking to.

Tell Harry K we said hi.

That person is getting a stern talking to.

lol

Even though I liked this movie, there are def. ppl I would never recommend it to.

The thing that kind of baffled me is how completely tone deaf to the material Snyder was. I mean if this is what he saw in it I have no idea why he would think the comic was remotely exceptional.

it was on that time list dude, just needed more kicking and stuff

I must again defend this movie's excellent jowl-reconstruction of John Mclaughlin.

I'm reading a book about taxidermy right now and it talks about how people love the animals so much that they go out, kill them, strip them down and painstakingly spend tons of money and time trying to make them look like they're alive again.
Just saying.

If only Snyder hadn't murdered Dr. Manhattan.

could not stay awake through this. kept falling asleep, waking up, not caring, going back to sleep.

I'd never noticed how much the raft's sail (in the Black Freighter comic) looked like Rorschach's mask

fucking awful film

> nolan batmen tbh

yeah but so's a nice biscuit

Stay far away from Sucker Punch, holy shit that movie.

never get tired of laughing at "Superman Returns is going to be legendary"

I still don't see what's so bad about it. It's about as faithful to the comic as a film's going to get.

Watchmen, that is

I watched it just before reading the book admittedly. Maybe my opinion would change were I to watch it again. I dunno.

"about as faithful to the comic as a film's going to get"

that's where it went wrong, though. Because the comic was (in addition to everything else) a very formalist critique of the comic form and movies are a very different medium. For one, they have moving images. Or at least THEY SHOULD.

and "Hallelujah" wasn't in the comic

::shudder::

Edelstein pretty well summed up how noisily lifeless i think it is ("Watchmen is dead on the screen, but I gotta admit it's some corpse: huge, loud and gaseously distended by its own dystopia"), but i'm also one of the only people who doesn't think the source material was all that perfect to begin with.

tons of people don't care for the comic. that said, alex in sf otm when he said the movie was completely tone deaf to the material - i think that's really the key problem with the movie from which all the littler problems emanate

yeah i guess that must be true -- i just got a very "that's it? that's all? van damme" feeling when i read it

yeah the movie got EVERYTHING wrong tone-wise. and theme-wise for that matter.

like i realize its probably hard to get any blockbuster greenlit w/ actors over 30 who are remotely less-than-beautiful, but the fact that theyre middle aged, blemished, baggy skined frumps is kinda the whole goddamn point.

actors too good-looking was really the least of its problems

well yeah.

although Malin Akerman is definitely one of the most astoundingly talentless model-turned-actresses to ever headline a major Hollywood flick (xpost)

i mean zach snyder is michael bay on adhd meds so i wasnt expecting anything above the level of "adolescence-raping horror" but ugh.

I remember almost nothing about this movie

snyder's more like bay on ritalin since the super fast cutting isnt really his bag... im much more willing to believe that snyder could make a good movie one day than bay could

i didnt find any of the cast to be excessively beautiful. laurie's not supposed to be a baggy frump, and patrick wilson captured dan's essential goobertude pretty well. most of the acting is quite bad but i dont really blame the actors for that

oh i missed the "on adhd meds" part

love the graphic novel, but this movie was bleh

patrick wilson totally did a standup job

only place where the casting falls down is an ozymandias that everyone in the cinema could destroy in a fight

matthew goode more like matthew bade

fucking awful film

the comic was a big part of my childhood and i seem to be the only person on earth who found nothing except "hallelujah" to object to in the movie

hey I'm just trying to save you guys from wasting yr hard-earned kopecks on this movie. You'll thank me later

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:09 (3 years ago)

Grant Morrison defended this movie in a recent interview; maybe he'll get Snyder to do Invisibles or We3?

dude he already has the producer of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the Transformers movies on We3

this totally seems like it would be in Gmo's wheelhouse

fucking awful film

you said that a few posts ago.

"fucking awful film"

awful fucking film