Watchmen

Great! Then I'm going to see this movie, hopefully opening night!

Opening night - hells yeah. Especially since opening night in Australia is about two days ahead of opening night in America (just like with The Dark Knight).

I think the flaws in Australia's movie distribution system are starting to even out a little...

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Just picked up the graphic novel yesterday and it doesn't dissapoint! Super psyched for this movie, I heard about the comic from my friends older brother in the early 90's and didn't realize it was this cool! Must've watched the trailer like 6 times already.

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While they are certainly weird, neither of those films are super hero films, either. I mean, Donnie Darko has some Hero overtones, and a couple of tongue-in-cheek hero jokes, but Donnie Darko has more in common with The Last Temptation of Christ than it does with a Batman film. Donnie isn't a horror film, either, although at time of release, some of the marketing led people to believe it might be. Shame on the marketing agent for that.

As for Southland Tales, that certainly isn't a superhero flick, nor an action flick, and it was never billed as such. Southland Tales was part parody, part satire, part vicious political polemic. Donnie Darko is a fantastic film, btw.

Southland Tales is pretty rough, but I like it.

As for Watchmen, the source material is dark, and I think the film will follow suit...I hope.

Not sure what you mean by weird, as that is such a subjective term.

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Morbid Pig, Watchmen is like the antithesis of comedy, there is not one funny part in it.

But anyway, that My Chemical Romance BOB DYLAN COVER will probably ruin the movie for me... worst choice ever? Probably! Does Snyder know the kind of people that read Watchmen???? They don't listen to the horrific My Chemical Romance, especially covering one of the greatest musical geniuses, Bob Dylan. Seriously, people should make a petition to make this not happen.

Anyway the trailer was really cool seeing the comic in action but other than that... thruthfully it looks like 300 except with super heroes. I don't understand this faith in Zach Snyder, 300 is nothing like Watchmen. Looks like they're focusing on action... which there is little of in the book. I have a feeling it's going to suck... that makes me sad

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I'm definitely looking forward to Watchmen. Serendipitously, while I was at my cousins house, I found the complete graphic novel and am currently reading it. Though I am scared that the movie will completely kill the comic and get the entire mood wrong, but we'll see I suppose.

I read that they are cutting back on the action for more story. Which I like.

and I chuckled during the novel...

Jacobi in the fridge and the "cool off" line. That is gold.

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Where did they say that? Link? Just curious because the trailer didn't make it seem like that, but then again it is a trailer. I'm fluctuating on whether I think its gonna be brilliant or suck, I genuinely hope its the former!

I found something funny about this part...

Moore's writing is really something else. I will have to pick up a copy of the graphic novel, as I dread reading my first print issues I have boxed at my house.

Currently starting The Invisibles, speaking of comics.

Anyone know when that issue of Empire is coming out? I need it! Even if I have to import it :P

I just got done reading the graphic novel. Can't wait for this movie.

It was a really good novel , but some of it I didn't care for - like the side comic that the kid reads throughout the whole thing. I felt the ending was pretty rushed in the novel too.

There is a lot of stuff I hope that is done differently in the film actually - more character development , better dialouge , and again , a better ending.

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Hold the phone.

You want there to be more character development, better dialogue and a better ending...

I don't see how you can really improve on any of the stuff that was already in the novel. It was pretty much perfect as is.

Plus, without giving anything away, changing the ending at all would defeat the entire point of the Watchmen story.

Speaking of which, care to explain why it wasn't that good?

MORE character development?

Did you even read the novel?

Hey Iroquois and TUS, remember how I said I got Watchmen, well I'm not done reading it and I have to stop, because I need to finish another book and do a report on it

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That which any reader did not like is probably something that Moore was aiming for, and it is worth asking oneself just what it is that one did not like and why--prompting a deeper examination of how the text is interpreted as well as one's expectations. Jennifer McMahon wrote a good essay on this in the book The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer.

No rush, dude. The movie doesn't come out till March.

You better not want that "cool off" line out, cause I'll kill you.

And again, if you are asking what happens to certain people at the end, then I must ask if you even read the novel....again.