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Watchmen was a fantastic movie and I thought relayed the message of Moore's work perfectly.
I read the Man in the High Castle but haven't seen a second of the show. I only saw that ridiculously stupid marketing idea to plaster Nazi symbols on NYC buses for 2 days before they all got removed.
I really thought they missed Moore's work. It was less focus on the super hero fighting villains found in typical works, but the world they were in ( the cold-war). The original work while involving super heroes didn't actually have a lot of action, however, the action sequences in the original carried a lot weight. For example when Rorschach was escaping from the building and jumped from second story window and was pulling himself up, showed his focus, strength and a part of his character straight will and determination. The scene in the movie made him looked like a typical superhero movie where he do amazing feats people could not do. So the significance was thrown the wind. I could go through a ton of things. Still if you had a good time and enjoyed it, that's all that matters.
Phillip K Dick = one of my all time favorite authors of all time. Read the book many many moons ago. Just got the streaming Netflix hooked up on my new laptop...Looks like I'd better get over to Amazon and log in there as well.
....hhmmm..at the risk of sounding like the man who japed, the penultimate truth of it is....safe when taken as directedQuote:
Originally Posted by lifeisfiction
Dead to Me... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by christianxxx
In all seriousness...
Watchmen is what I'd call a flawed masterpiece. Snyder replicated the graphic novel shot for shot... and therein lies why it ultimately fails as a movie. It doesn't ever really make a film out of it... it's more like vignettes for the camera. I wanted to love the film, but it just fell short.
Absolutely not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wendy Summers
jesus I can't believe that none of you liked the Watchmen movie. I was captivated from start to finish. The slow motion shots were awesome, the details in the blood and killing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wendy Summers
I liked the beginning of the movie where it went over the original Watchmen and how they all died (which is the entire point of the watchmen...superheroes that weren't invincible).
Rohrschach's voice and cadence.
The part with Rohrschach in prison and the cooking oil "you think I'm in here with you, you're in here with MEEEEEEEEE"?
The music during the story of the beginnings of Dr. Manhattan and his haunting melodious voice
Really anything with Dr. Manhattan was amazing. "I'm tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
Miss Jupiter and her unbelievable body and boobs.
Night Owl was a cool costume and Patrick Wilson is a fantastic actor (he is amazing in Fargo Season 2 right now)
The cinematography was riveting and flawless.
The cool tiger animal and the tachyon chamber was cool.
Ozymandias making fun of how super villains usually give away their master plans stupidly was awesome.
The ending wasn't how endings ever go...the anti-hero Rohrschach dies in a gross way haha
Jesus you comic book nerds gotta step outside of yourselves for about 2 minutes and realize fantastic cinema when you are hit in the face with it. Holy smokes.
While the movie and the graphic novel both ended differently, I though each ending worked well within the medium and time period presented (comic vs movie, 1980s vs 2000s).
I loved the Watchmen movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by christianxxx
Hey, don't lump me in with that other intellectual pornstar... I liked Watchmen and thought it was a beautiful story. To be fair, I had not read the comic before, except in passing. I read the main body of work afterwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by christianxxx
Quite honestly, you can't expect the movie companies to put together a film targeting the teen / young adult crowd (yes, I know it was rated R) and seriously explore dynamics of the "Cold War" when in all probability, most of the target audience wouldn't even be able to accurately define the term. It was a bubble-gum, summer-blockbuster type movie at a time when movies based on comics were still a bit risky. In the context of things, I think the production companies did a pretty good job of making money - their main goal.
Seriously, I think a lot of people secretly and actually LIKED Watchmen,but are just loyalists to Alan Moore, and thus, tow-the-line so to speak. I've personally enjoyed most every adaptation - V, League, From Hell, etc... all entertaining my book. If Watchmen comics had not existed and this movie was released as an original work, it would be beloved by many of those same critics... just my opinion.