If You Appreciate the Book Can You Accept This Film?

[chosen1]

Debate here.

I personally will not be putting any money into this movie. Its all Just Cut and paste NO CREATIVITY. Zack Snyder was the wrong choice for this type of movie.

 

[SuperFerret]

Define a "True" fan and I will define "relativism". Or "fanatic". Possibly both.

 

[The Battousai]

:facepalm @ OP

 

[the_tortel]

hmm, is a true watchmen fan merely one who's read the book, and loved it? or must the person have graduated harvard and have a degree in fine english literature?

because if you don't need that last bit then my 13 year old brother is a "true" fan

I really don't get why some think there's some kind of club only a "true" fan can get in...

 

[Bubastis]

No, I think OP has a valid point. I know everybody who's seen the trailer and hasn't read the book thinks it looks kick-ass, and in that sense it'll probably end up being the new 300 if the movie is as superficial is it looks like it can be. Only the people who've read the book are starting to look at it and say "I'm not sure if Snyder really gets it..."

 

[BlackLantern]

I don't agree this is a story that can be properly adapted for the common movie watching folk

 

[Project862006]

^ i agree imo preacher is alot harder to adapt also people should be damn happy Snyder is directing this first of all Snyder was offered it not requested to direct it studios came to him movie looks great btw and Snyder has been a fan of novel before he began film making also if Snyder was not directing this mark my words this movie would be about war on terror every script was set in modern era Snyder is only one who changed it to the 80's he has a passion for it someone else probably wouldn't have

 

[Doctor Jones]

They have to accept that everything from the GN can't be adapted to film. And they have to take liberties with the story in order to make it cohesive to the film. I think the film can be really great in it's own right regardless of how faithful it is to the source material.

 

[BlackLantern]

They have to accept that everything from the GN can't be adapted to film. And they have to take liberties with the story in order to make it cohesive to the film. I think the film can be really great in it's own right regardless of how faithful it is to the source material.

Without the source material, there wouldn't be a film in the first place.....

 

[[A]]

I'm against any true categorization.

 

[CaptainGenerica]

:facepalm @ OP

QFT.

Not another one of these whiny, holier-than-thou threads. You'd think that Watchmen was the first book to ever be turned into a film, by the way some people are reacting. Some people don't realize that most book-to-movie adaptations aren't nearly as faithful to the source material as Watchmen is shaping up to be.

 

[The Battousai]

No, I think OP has a valid point. I know everybody who's seen the trailer and hasn't read the book thinks it looks kick-ass, and in that sense it'll probably end up being the new 300 if the movie is as superficial is it looks like it can be. Only the people who've read the book are starting to look at it and say "I'm not sure if Snyder really gets it..."

Who's saying that?

I don't know about you, but seeing Dan's dream in the SCREAM footage should be a good enough sign for anybody that this will be a great adaptation.

 

[[A]]

I don't know about signs--I just expect a movie to be good.. in this case, I really really really really want it to be good

 

[BlackLantern]

Who's saying that?

I don't know about you, but seeing Dan's dream in the SCREAM footage should be a good enough sign for anybody that this will be a great adaptation.

I am...having read Watchmen at the age of 12, made me view comics in a different light...that they can be deeper than just bad guys vs. good guys...knowing that it is on Time Magazines list of 100 greatest novels...I like Snyder but I think this project is beyond him...

 

[EmPiiRe x]

at this stage, anybody judging the film off of the teaser trailer is getting too ahead of themselves. The trailer, and the Scream footage, is basically a set of slow-moving screenshots set to cool music. You can't judge the acting, you certainly can't judge the story, you can't judge the editing, the directing, anything. You can get a feel for what the film, aesthetically, may look like. That's about it.

 

[Project862006]

trust me Snyder is prolly the only capable director in Hollywood who does get it he doesn't want to change stuff most directors would have set it in modern times he is actually a fan of novel before he even made 300 or DOTD the actors themselves say Snyder had the GN in his hands on set more the the scripts when doing scenes they would revert back to book to make sure it was right

 

[SuperFerret]

I'm against any true categorization.

Amen to that.

 

[The Mighty Wind]

Because its a visual medium, I don't think that the movie is going to corrupt my original reading of the graphic novel the way in which a movie adaptation of a book would, however I'm mostly on Alan Moore's side in that this is going to bastardize the original work of art to a certain degree and that's a shame.

 

[[A]]

Amen to that.

Thanks here, have some Oreos

 

[SuperFerret]

Thanks here, have some Oreos

Thank you.

 

[BlackLantern]

Because its a visual medium, I don't think that the movie is going to corrupt my original reading of the graphic novel the way in which a movie adaptation of a book would, however I'm mostly on Alan Moore's side in that this is going to bastardize the original work of art to a certain degree and that's a shame.

...well said...

 

[CrimsonMist]

aside from all the hysteria coming out of the stories surrounding a new ending, what else do people actually have problems with?

i really hate these whiny posts that are generalized to the extreme and can't back up anything.

 

[EmPiiRe x]

At this point, all people can do is assume the movie will be garbage, because there's nothing but a few production journals and a teaser trailer to base any opinion on, good or bad. I won't say this film is absolutely, positively going to be the cat's pajamas, and I won't say it's a horrid, bastardized travesty like some are. It may be hard, but try and reserve judgement until you've got something to base it off of.

 

[the_tortel]

At this point, all people can do is assume the movie will be garbage, because there's nothing but a few production journals and a teaser trailer to base any opinion on, good or bad. I won't say this film is absolutely, positively going to be the cat's pajamas, and I won't say it's a horrid, bastardized travesty like some are. It may be hard, but try and reserve judgement until you've got something to base it off of.

yeah, as for the meat of the movie, there's just no way of knowing how well it's done
but visually, anyone can tell it's dazzling, it's like gibbons' art jumps out in real life

 

[DrawingBlanks]

Who's saying that?

I don't know about you, but seeing Dan's dream in the SCREAM footage should be a good enough sign for anybody that this will be a great adaptation.

I disagree. No one can argue that the movie doesn't look to be a VISUAL triumph. But like others have said, that's all we have to go on for now. The story-telling and acting have to be top-notch also for it to work, and there's no way anyone can reasonably state with certainty that it will be a great adaptation just based on how great some teaser money shots are.