Yes the Dawn of the Dead remake is pretty horrible… but it wasn’t house of the dead. And besides, Zak Snyder pretty much hit 300 dead on… ok except for the parts with Sarah Connor#2.
the problem was that it was a remake of the quinticential(sp?) zombie flick, and it broke one of the most basic rules of zombie-dom…
You can’t distill Watchmen down to its essence, because what makes Watchmen uniquely a comic book is that its essence is as much in the small outlying details as it is in the central story threads. You lose that stuff, you lose a lot of what makes Watchmen such a rich and complete experience. If you’re going to get rid of that, you might as well make a generic superhero movie set in a fictionalized “real” world–because that’s what you’re going to have anyway.
beyond teh fear that i am going to have to sit through the watchmen equivilant of 300, this is really the problem…it would be like just listening to one song off of dark side to judge the album, or watching a single episode of arrested development to get the humor - watchmen is a carefully crafted piece, from the art, to the coloring to the way the story plays out in the frames. even a truly visionary director like gilliam or miike couldn’t translate those pages to film. not even if you took each comic book and made it’s own seperate movie could you ever begin to capture the completeness of the story…
I dunno, I had issues with 300. Why oh why in this day and age did they have to kill a person of African decent in the first five minutes of the movie when they could of had someone from any race play the character really? Yeash it’s 2008, Hollywood stop doing this crap. And what the heck was up with that scene where everything turned pitched black and you could only see the Black fat guy’s eyes? WTF was that about?
And electric guitars? Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Nah bust out the Conan type orchestra man do you know how epic that would of sounded in an Imax theater? If you must use electric guitars, heck put them in the orchestra. Just saying…
Other than that it was fine I guess, hey it was a good movie. I just felt there were a few poor choices in there is all. Which is why I’m a bit uneasy about Watchmen. Of course, the director is only part of the equation when it comes to movies. So far it looks nice and sure I’ll go see it.
I swear that Hollywood just picks up graphic novels nowadays and says “Oh snap the storyboard is already done, let’s film this!” so we get quite a few comic book movies that have no soul. I’m hoping that’s not the case with Watchmen. We’ll see I guess. At least everything looks purty.
But if The Comedian is Black I’m out. 
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moore did “the killing joke” correct? i heard that was very much worth picking up…
ya he did, his other good work is From Hell…
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i knew he did from hell, lxg and v…i’d like to move on to some of his other works as soon as i’m done reading watchmen about five more times…
I’m a bit late to the party I was moved by the trailer so I picked up the book today I went to a park and read the entire book and finished a few hours ago. I’m blown away. This is my first comic/graphic novel and I wanted to be excited for the movie and am I ever. The book the story and ending is a bit fresh in my mind so I won’t go into anything. I’ll just say wow.
The ending is probably one of the best comic book/graphic novel ending in history. That’s the part that sticks to my mind the most.
actually I’m kinda pissed the Nite-Owl suit doesn’t make the actor look fat.
I would watch both of these things.
thx! i’ll add this to my list of GNs i need to pick up.
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nice read! i admit, i started reading after i saw the trailer…i went to like 10 bookstores and comic shops in san diego before i found a copy. i think i’m gonna move right into from hell, as that seems to be one of the more reccomended of moore’s titles.
I didn’t like the 300 movie, either. It was way longer than it needed to be. They added that entire subplot about Leonidas’ wife and some politician and that just dragged it out way too long. The pacing was just messed up. About the only thing that movie did perfectly was nail the colors… Which was to be expected because they hired Lynn Varley. The comic book is just a much better experience, mainly because it’s shorter and to the point.
Look, just about anything written by Alan Moore is amazing or worth reading. The lone exception to that is the WildC.A.T.s/Spawn crossover. That one is so bad, I refuse to believe Moore had anything to do with it. I will choose to believe that Todd McFarlane simply held Moore’s family hostage so T-Mac could slap Moore’s name on some Spawn comics.
I still stand by my previous statement that Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell are all worthy candidates when discussing “greatest comics of all time.” Promethea, too, actually could be up there. Who the hell else would have ever thought of making, let alone successfully execute, a 32-page comic book which you could read and enjoy normally and then you could take out the staples and rearrange the pages into a giant poster that still tells a story about the end of all existence?
Haha, yeah…
After Watchmen i read V for Vendetta and i’m really impressed.
I started reading Y the Last Man on Earth which is entertaining.
I will check out From Hell and Plantery and 100 Bullets next in that order.
I’ve been reading so many comic books over the past two months that some of my dreams are in dialogue boxes and thought bubbles.
so about 3 weeks ago, i went to several bookstores looking for watchmen, and couldn’t find it at like 5 different stores. today, while looking for a copy of from hell, i noticed every bookstore in the area had like 50 copies of watchmen. borders had like a whole edncap plus like a whole shelf full of copies…but no one had either batman year one or from hell…