Watchmen Trailer - came before Dark Knight

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GooseGaws on 21 July 2008

Onyxmeth said:

GooseGaws said:

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Also this movie is going to own. Zack Snyder will be as faithful as possible to Watchmen. He already stated the original ending is staying intact. Spoiler: Ozymandius gets away with the attack on Manhattan. He won't apprehended at all to make it more movie like.. Just look at how faithful Snyder kept things in 300. I agree Watchmen is not very movie friendly, but this is the man that would create the best version possible of it. About Alan Moore, he's a genius, but completely against any of his movies getting made. He's had problems with every one of them, so this is no surprise.

"Faithful?" No offense, but have you actually read 300? The movie was a long way from faithful. In terms of adaptations, the Sin City movie is probably the most accurate representation of its source material.

I can't imagine how a Watchmen movie could ever measure up to the amazing quality of the graphic novel. After seeing the trailer, I'm even less convinced. I'm sure I'll have to see it out of morbid curiosity, but I think we'd be better off without it. I guess if it encourages more people to read the book, that's something.

300 was far too thin to actually make a movie out of. Sure there were many added scenes, but I felt that it all helped the film, not deter from it. When I say faithful, I don't mean basing your entire directing duties on making sure every frame of the comic is shown live on screen like in Sin City. Sin City suffered because they took the novels raw and didn't add or subtract what worked or didn't work for a movie adaptation. I don't see why they couldn't have taken some liberties. I mean Frank Miller was completely involved in it.

Exactly; the book takes hardly any time at all to read. So if you're going to go ahead and make a movie out of it, why not keep it similarly fast-paced instead of dragging it out into something that lasts for nearly two hours? The tone of the movie was quite different, what with the "fantasy beasts" that never appear in the book, and all the added scenes of Leonidas's wife were completely ridiculous and implausible.

Personally, I really enjoyed Sin City and was thrilled to see such an accurate rendition of the books. They already play out in a very film-like way to begin with, so I don't think any creative liberties were necessary. Compared to 300, the pace of Sin City is lightning fast, as they're packing three full graphic novels (each of which are individually longer than 300) worth of material into a very similar running time. That's how it should be, as far as I'm concerned. I sincerely hope that the "Family Values" plot is included in a future film; I'd love to see that brought to life.

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