A man is found dead.
Another man, in a costume, investigates his murder.
The man investigating thinks it is a plot to murder former costumed heroes.
From there, it gets complicated.
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A man is found dead.
Another man, in a costume, investigates his murder.
The man investigating thinks it is a plot to murder former costumed heroes.
From there, it gets complicated.
Alan Moore is amazing. Don't go into the book expecting wall to wall up the ass action. Moore likes to tackle the more abstract aspects of superheroes and their morality. That's why compressing a series into a movie portends disaster. Unless they totally dumb down the film, change and mangle it into a PG-13 action movie and have the stars of the OC as the cast it probably won't be marketable--unless your an (ex)comic book geek like me.
Complicated is a nice word for it.Quote:
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The story and the characters are just so fleshed out and engrossing, which means that Hollywood would just decimate the whole ambiance of the book.
But I do have to say, seenig Rorshach on the big screen gnawing on sugar cubes would be cool.
They should do a Top 10 miniseries.
All you folks who are up Watchmen's ass should go buy that series, if you haven't. I'd daresay it's the best thing Moore's ever done.
Absolutely. Not just the length either, the subtleness of the whole story will be lost; and once that's gone you're left with a bunch of really cheesy super heroes. If the movie can't adequately show they're really supposed to be cheesy, then it will suck big time.Quote:
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And yeah, the Watchmen TPB is like $20. Highly recommended, it's excellent.
It's arguably the greatest comic book story ever written.
Top Ten is also excellent, excellent character-driven work.
I'll add V for Vendetta to the list of MUST READ comics (all by Moore =P )
It kind of sucks that these hollywood people are bastardizing Alan Moore's works like with LXG, From Hell(this was alright though) and now The Watchmen.
I have faith that Solid Snake will pull through for Watchmen:lol:
A Top 10 movie would be insane. You'd definetly have to go the animated path or mega budget CGI for it.
Top 10 is great.
Top 10 02 is less so.
Smax is good in a Willingham way.
But, there is a reason why The Watchmen is considered the best all time.
Because it actually is the best all time.
I don't understand all this David Hayter worship.
His X-Men adaptations were decent. Not spectacular. I don't think he could adapt Watchmen properly, nor could anyone else.
That said, I wouldn't mind seeing what Terry Gilliam could come up with.
Slightly OT: are any of you guys reading Wanted? It's like Watchmen, but for villains.