Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

I'm not saying that Sin City SHOULD'VE been exactly this and this way, I'm just saying that for me it didn't work, and it was pretty easy to pinpoint the reasons why.

So you can't criticize movies if you find them lacking in certain ways?

-- Tuomas, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:19 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

no, you just seem to be drawing these arbitrary rules that don't really mean anything or are so obvious they're not worth pointing out. hey did you know that COMICS aren't the same thing as MOVIES?!?

its not so much a dogmatic idea of what shouldn't or should be done so much as it is understanding what does and doesn't work about a specific medium. I agree with contenderizer (and obviously disagree w/S1ocki and Dan) that Sin City looked terrible. I just did not think it looked good on-screen. Saying that it faithfully aped the style of the comics is not enough to recommend it, as accomplishing that particular aesthetic feat is fairly pointless and not a particularly good idea. Its like saying that a building based on a Van Gogh painting must be great, cuz it LOOKS JUST LIKE A VAN GOGH PAINTING! Never mind that its a shitty building.

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Let's talk more about Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Love that movie. And I promise to refrain from using words that are bad.

i think it translated the comic pretty spot on and kudos to the casting of carla gugino imo. i didn't like the source material that much and tbh i think rodriguez did a totally fine job, even if i personally don't think the whole thing is my...thing.

http://www.chucksconnection.com/sincity/sincity03.jpg

"Watch out bitches, when I'm done with my Seventh Day Adventist shit, I'm gonna take to Mario-style hopping!"

"Srsly I am scary!"

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"I mean it!"

Ned Raggett's Post.

http://www.negativespace.net/victorian-graffiti/kevingdoll.jpg

"BOOGA BOOGA BLOOBY bippity boppity boo!"

Also I think Jessica Alba has a midriff.

"Abbott sums up the movies 4 u"

Okay, Elijah apparently is scarier IRL than as 'Kevin':

http://www.bitetv.ca/blog/archives/Elijah%20Wood.jpg

I had a crush on you since age 10, what're you DOING to me here, buddy? *96 tears*

was that really necessary

Elijah, that wasn't really necessary! I agree.

see that's an example of how to really bring illustrated visuals to life.

HI DERE NOT SAFE FOR FUCKING WORK OK

He makes dirty jokes, but HI DERE is usually safe for work. I mean, he still has a job.

Birth is a natural and beautiful event in a woman's life, David

Anyway, I'm still looking forward to Watchmen, though the previews smell.

has nobody brought up the lawsuit that might derail the whole enterprise yet?

they smell like meat

omg i love meat

slocki that is why the tread got revived.

has nobody brought up the lawsuit that might derail the whole enterprise yet?

-- s1ocki, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:34 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

upthread, amigo!

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Also, who are we kidding? One big check later, movie is back in theaters. It's gone too far to stop now.

Oily OTM

This is just to say that I did not need a person on the internet calling himself Shakey Mo Collier to remind me about the natural beauty of childbirth with regards to a pic showing Elijah Wood's head poking through a plywood vag.

Had it been a real honest-to-goodness vag, say from a cow or elephant, that would have been okay.

chinatown.jpg

maybe we can add him to the wallogina

homework: GIS "elephant vag"

lolz joeks bruv

Also, who are we kidding? One big check later, movie is back in theaters. It's gone too far to stop now.

-- Oilyrags, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:38 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

seriously. has a lawsuit like this ever stopped a high-profile major studio movie like this from being released?

Fox has stated it isn't looking for monetary compensation - their aim is for the film's release to be blocked. I'd like to say with certainty they won't succeed, but who knows?

That's completely untrue according to a quote in an Entertainment Weekly article from a spokesman for Fox. They are looking to get pizzaid.

wait waht lawsuit

The one Shakey Mo filed claiming emotional distress.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/08/watchmen.html

Those familiar with the situation tell EW.com that despite the legal mess over rights, Fox isn't actually interested in suppressing Snyder’s film — they just want affirmation of ownership and/or restitution, and there are many scenarios by which Fox could get paid, including a cash settlement or distribution rights to the film. Either way, look for Watchmen to be released, as scheduled, on March 6, 2009.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Carla Gugino:

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/8806/silkspectre2vi5dr2.jpg

Poor prisoner. :(
That's against the eighth amendment.

Crudup as The Tron Guy as Dr Manhattan

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=14&id=61074

ever since hollywood shifted into this 'ALL SUPERHERO MOVIES ALL THE TIME' mode, ive been less and less concerned about 'staying faithful to the comic' or whatever. as a kid, i was an x-men fanatic and was completely distraught as to how they handled the movies, in every way. there used to be this big sense of finality or something, like 'theyre FINALLY making a movie of it, so they HAVE to get it right! this is their ONE CHANCE!' i think part of that mentality came from comics/graphic novels being overlooked and underappreciated as storytelling devices and as an art medium and all that.

but now, i just dont care anymore... i guess the x-men stuff just made me not give a shit. you know what? go nuts, and invite billy corgan along. it just doesn't matter.

Don't tell Alan Moore, but I'm looking forward to this film quite a lot now.

Did Zack Snyder Change the Ending of ‘Watchmen’ to Make it More Like ‘The Dark Knight’?

In any case, we think we actually like Snyder's ending better than Alan Moore's — what the heck was that squid thing about, anyway?

writer is a fucking moron and I claim my $5

Blotchmen

The change sounds more or less in keeping with the intent of Moore's original ending, certainly not as bad as that horrible 90s script which is knocking around the web somewhere. The squid would be better though, its what the heckness is what makes it so brilliant - Gordian Knot and all that.

seems to me like it doesn't resolve the central cold war conflict (ie, uniting Soviets and Americans against a common alien foe), since the "common foe" in this case, is um, American.

well, manhattan suddenly leaves earth fairly early in the story so it's not exactly a stretch to essentially frame him.

the squid will be missed though.

essentially frame him as going rogue, that is

Fuck losing the squid imo.

Although I'll still be queuing up when this piece of shit gets released.

SPOILERS

That's a point, but I'm sure something could be crafted to solve this. Manhattan has publicly disavowed human affairs some time before the climax, after all and I assume the attacks are going to occur on both sides' soil. Not saying the new ending will be better, just saying it might not be absolute shit.

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