I'm willing to give the guy a shot in a well-it-might-be-a-cool-supplement kind of way, but I do have some skepticism.
was in Neil Gaiman who said Watchmen and Sandman were like STDs, girls got them from their boyfriends?
Hah! My boyfriend gave me Watchmen, too, although I had been a comic fan LONG before then (Sandman I read on my own, for instance, gave the first trade to HIM). I just hadn't gotten around to reading it.
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.
Yeah, I don't have many friends who are also fans and also fangirls. (Although I once wrote this drabble from Rorschach's point of view that a female LJ friend liked.) Boyfriend liked Rorschach but does not understand the woobie-aspect.
Her film costume is really disappointing.
You know, this vision may not be supported by the text, but in my "mental" film, Laurie doesn't move very well because of her huge heels. Like, I picture her almost clomping her way to the fight in her costume. If she stands in the right place, of course, she can kick ass, but getting there is tough going.
Like I said, may not be supported by the text, but ... even though the power walk with her hair waving is a nice visual flourish ... that mental image feels more real to me than anything I see in the flesh-and-blood movie.
And Dan is all BUFF, or, at the v least, not the older, big-guy type in the drawings. Bah.
Yeah. I mean, I do realize some things look better on paper than they do on film, but I would have liked him with a little more pudge.
But it does work in the plot, and the general emotional tone of the book.
Yeah, that aspect keeps me from condemning it completely.
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.
Well, if they DO do it right, we can be assured of at least 50 movie reviewers calling the film "The Feel-Bad Popcorn Movie of the Year!" (Oboy.)
....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.
Awww, nah. That's one of my favorite chapters, too. Maybe my second favorite, tied with the chapter where Jon tells his life, because the structure is just so impeccable.
I think the chapter with Rorschach telling his past to the psychiatrist is my ultimate favorite chapter, though. (And the coda in the later chapter when he looks at the son of his prostitute landlady. That panel is so sad.)
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was in Neil Gaiman who said Watchmen and Sandman were like STDs, girls got them from their boyfriends?
Hah! My boyfriend gave me Watchmen, too, although I had been a comic fan LONG before then (Sandman I read on my own, for instance, gave the first trade to HIM). I just hadn't gotten around to reading it.
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.
Yeah, I don't have many friends who are also fans and also fangirls. (Although I once wrote this drabble from Rorschach's point of view that a female LJ friend liked.) Boyfriend liked Rorschach but does not understand the woobie-aspect.
Her film costume is really disappointing.
You know, this vision may not be supported by the text, but in my "mental" film, Laurie doesn't move very well because of her huge heels. Like, I picture her almost clomping her way to the fight in her costume. If she stands in the right place, of course, she can kick ass, but getting there is tough going.
Like I said, may not be supported by the text, but ... even though the power walk with her hair waving is a nice visual flourish ... that mental image feels more real to me than anything I see in the flesh-and-blood movie.
And Dan is all BUFF, or, at the v least, not the older, big-guy type in the drawings. Bah.
Yeah. I mean, I do realize some things look better on paper than they do on film, but I would have liked him with a little more pudge.
But it does work in the plot, and the general emotional tone of the book.
Yeah, that aspect keeps me from condemning it completely.
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.
Well, if they DO do it right, we can be assured of at least 50 movie reviewers calling the film "The Feel-Bad Popcorn Movie of the Year!" (Oboy.)
....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.
Awww, nah. That's one of my favorite chapters, too. Maybe my second favorite, tied with the chapter where Jon tells his life, because the structure is just so impeccable.
I think the chapter with Rorschach telling his past to the psychiatrist is my ultimate favorite chapter, though. (And the coda in the later chapter when he looks at the son of his prostitute landlady. That panel is so sad.)