WATCHMEN Stops Ticking

The who? Oh well. One last bad comic book movie to worry about.

AMEN

I'm sort of glad to hear this. There is no way Hollywood would make this the way it should be made. Lest we forget Spawn, a wonderfully dark and moody and ultimately tragic story, was turned into 2 hours of vomit inducing swill. If they gave this the same treatment as Sin City maybe. Although Sin City looked amazing, the writing left something to be desired. Granted it was literally taken straight from the book, some things that look good and read good on paper don't necessarily sound good coming out of someone's mouth. If they took the same amount of care with the writing as they did with the visuals in Sin City...but I don't know anyone who cares about the Watchmen that much.

Am I dreaming? Was "wonderful" and "Spawn" used in the same sentence? Granted, I thought the concept showed a lot of promise when first introduced, but it soon fel into a back and forth pattern like Todd couldn't decide what to do with it. And it's been going on ever since...

Oh wait, we're talking about the Watchmen movie. This is one of those things best left in it's original medium. I don't have a problem seeing comic book CHARACTERS on the big screen because you can do any kind of story. Adapting a comic STORY however seems to be tricky and usually fails. For the record, I don't think the X-Men movies should touch the Dark Phoenix storyline. They should stick to original material.

You know what I believe someone could do this movie justice. The only man I have faith in for this project would be Tim Burton. His stuff on the first Batman movie had the exact kind of flair a movie like Watchmen really needs.

As for the length factor let's face it the core story of Watchmen is pretty doable in under three hours. It'd just be a matter of stripping out a few loose ends. A for instance would be the news vendor, the psychothearpist that analyzes Rorschach, or even the first Night Owl. I believe that it would be a wonderfully complex movie about the nature of superheros sans the super...well except for Manhattan.

Will somebody please explain to me exactly what the big deal is with Watchmen ??? I am a comic fan and have just finished reading Watchmen for the fifth time... I still can't see what the big deal is ? Below average. Every time I pick it up I think maybe this will be the time that it grabs me and I see what everyone else sees in it, and every time I come away with the feeling that the only reason everyone thinks it is great is because they are told it IS great.

Let me be the first to say this to you...it's great because before it no one did comics like this. You enjoy a dark Batman...well before Watchmen Batman was campy fun. Watchmen took what was a pristine land of Superheros and turned them into people with real problems and grounded them in reality.

Even aside from that the story itself is pretty ground breaking. I mean the main thrust of the story is that a hero becomes the bad guy to do a good thing. In an average comic before Watchmen Ozymadias would have never gotten close to completing his master plan of killing millions of people...even if it was to make the world a better place. Superman would have come along and kicked his butt and gave him a firm talking to about how there are other ways to work through social problems.

But, instead of that we got honest to god humanity in these books. It wasn't about these superhero gods looking down from a piller and saying "that's not right". It was Nite Owl who was unsure of himself, Rorschach furious and worked up into a murderious rage, and the Comedian cynical as hell and twice as violent. It was real, it was gritty, it reminded us there is prejudice and those who try and fight it, and above all it's a great story. Full of intrigue and twists and turns no one could have seen. I haven't found a single person who's ever read it put two and two together and figure out who was the masked killer before Moore reveals it to be Ozymandias.

In essence that's why I think it's a magnificant work. There are others who have different reasons, but I admire it as something to be aspired to by other comic writters. And, as you can probably guess alot of writters feel the same way.