the trailer doesn't really SAY anything, except maybe like, "HEY FANS! REMEMBER WHEN THIS HAPPENED? AND THAT HAPPENED? JESUS CHRIST, IT'S DOCTOR MANHATTAN, GET IN THE CAR!"
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....I am a notorious culture vulture and usually hate great books made into crappy films but I honestly REALLY do not think this will translate well to the big screen. In the _book,_ you can pore over the backgrounds and all the little details and go over and over everything and read complex storylines multiple times. In the movie, you get pretty shiny flashy CGI! Bah. And all these people who go "Yeah but now you can see it -- " No, I already see it. In my head. And it's just fine, in fact, better than anything Hollywood can do.
I'm ... kind of embarrassed by my like of Rorschach still, even though I think I liked the character a better on the first time reading than the second
AWW RORSCHACH NEEDS LOVE TOO
The first time I read Watchmen -- was in Neil Gaiman who said Watchmen and Sandman were like STDs, girls got them from their boyfriends? -- I'd borrowed my then-boyfriend's copy, and my best friend, who'd introduced us, loved Rorschach too, so that might have made me less self-conscious about liking him. Nite-Owl was sweet, but....noooooo, not my type.
I liked Laurie a lot better on the second reading
Me, too. Her film costume is really disappointing. And Dan is all BUFF, or, at the v least, not the older, big-guy type in the drawings. Bah.
When I first read the book, the part about Sally and The Comedian's semi-reconciliation post-rape was the only part that caught me as hinky. The text does attempt to explain it as some sort of self-hatred, but I do go back and forth on how much I can suspend my disbelief for that.
Yeah, that was the one part I REALLY HATED, and that never really made sense to me. But it does work in the plot, and the general emotional tone of the book.
The first six pages of the final chapter are still as jaw-droppingly horrific as they were the first time around
Yeah, and for me, that's going to be really make-or-break as far as the movie goes....IF they can do that non-feel-good, shattering, near-silent what-do-we-do-now-God-we-don't-know vibe, esp in a post-9/11 environment, I'll be impressed. But I bet they won't.
....my secret favourite part has always been the chapter with Laurie and Dr Manhattan on Mars, because it's so moving. I know that is cheezy of me, but oh well.
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....I am a notorious culture vulture and usually hate great books made into crappy films but I honestly REALLY do not think this will translate well to the big screen. In the _book,_ you can pore over the backgrounds and all the little details and go over and over everything and read complex storylines multiple times. In the movie, you get pretty shiny flashy CGI! Bah. And all these people who go "Yeah but now you can see it -- " No, I already see it. In my head. And it's just fine, in fact, better than anything Hollywood can do.
I'm ... kind of embarrassed by my like of Rorschach still, even though I think I liked the character a better on the first time reading than the second
AWW RORSCHACH NEEDS LOVE TOO
The first time I read Watchmen -- was in Neil Gaiman who said Watchmen and Sandman were like STDs, girls got them from their boyfriends? -- I'd borrowed my then-boyfriend's copy, and my best friend, who'd introduced us, loved Rorschach too, so that might have made me less self-conscious about liking him. Nite-Owl was sweet, but....noooooo, not my type.
I liked Laurie a lot better on the second reading
Me, too. Her film costume is really disappointing. And Dan is all BUFF, or, at the v least, not the older, big-guy type in the drawings. Bah.
When I first read the book, the part about Sally and The Comedian's semi-reconciliation post-rape was the only part that caught me as hinky. The text does attempt to explain it as some sort of self-hatred, but I do go back and forth on how much I can suspend my disbelief for that.
Yeah, that was the one part I REALLY HATED, and that never really made sense to me. But it does work in the plot, and the general emotional tone of the book.
The first six pages of the final chapter are still as jaw-droppingly horrific as they were the first time around
Yeah, and for me, that's going to be really make-or-break as far as the movie goes....IF they can do that non-feel-good, shattering, near-silent what-do-we-do-now-God-we-don't-know vibe, esp in a post-9/11 environment, I'll be impressed. But I bet they won't.
....my secret favourite part has always been the chapter with Laurie and Dr Manhattan on Mars, because it's so moving. I know that is cheezy of me, but oh well.