ext_13396 ([identity profile] quietprofanity.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] quietprofanity 2009-02-26 04:16 am (UTC)

Thanks!

I don't see it either? Maybe the Watchmen movie has so much male nudity that anyone who comes out of the theater sees dicks everywhere?

I think they're referring to the white area between the blobs. It's really malformed penis that I wouldn't have noticed if they hadn't pointed it out, honestly.

I think Watchmen is the only fandom I've seen where fans get mad at other fans if they have any fun at all. Weird.)

LOL. I think some of it comes from kneejerk defensiveness over the medium itself always being in a war for the respect of the masses. And this book has had "classic" status for 20 years and its legend as the unfilmable graphic novel and this is going to be people's exposure to the story and ... yeah, they've sort of convinced themselves of its sacredness.

Although that doesn't explain why they're freaking out about, say, Patrick Wilson not being fat enough considering that it's a small sin compared to how Frank Miller pretty much bludgeoned the shit out of The Spirit or that utterly bullshit League of Extraordinary Gentlemen adaptation. Hell, the vaginal squid not being around isn't as big an insult as those two movies, really.

I think at the very least we're going to get three great performances out of this movie (Haley, Wilson and Morgan) and people are going to come away with an idea of what the actual comic is like. Which is what, say, Persepolis was able to do and The Spirit totally wasn't.

(And speaking of Persepolis, that was an adaptation that totally took out my favorite part of the book and I still enjoyed it. Plus, it was a way to expose my Dad to the story.)

Haha yes, I've seen the Demi Moore version of The Scarlet Letter, very little in abridged film adaptations can shake me. I was thinking about book-to-film adaptations the other day while watching East of Eden.

Oh God, that movie. I don't even like The Scarlet Letter, but from everything I heard that was like the "Sam Hamm" version.

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