Moore Unsupportive of Synder's Watchmen

[Mercurius]

Just because a guy is all enigmatic, reclusive, and talks in riddles don't make him right, either.

Of course it doesn't.

It's being right that makes him right.

 

[That-Guy]

While I wish that Moore would give this film a chance and watch it before deciding that it's just another example of Hollywood butchering his work, at least Moore hasn't gone the Frank Miller route and decided that he's such a genius that he can make craptastic superhero films of him own.

 

[Joker]

Moore to Zach Snyder: "Your movie sucks, and in fact, all your newfangled moving pictures suck!"

He then added "You damn kids, get off my lawn! I'm a wizard! And I live in a cave! I'll curse ye's, I will!"

Yeah, sorry, but despite how great a writer Moore is, I made my peace a long time ago with the fact that the man is completely bats**t insane, and the only proper response to anything he says is to smile and nod politely while slowing backing away.

PS: Hey that guy, way to go on calling Moore out for judging a movie before he sees it, and then doing exactly the same thing yourself with Frank Miller. That's not hypocritical and incredibly stupid at ALL.

 

[Mercurius]

Moore to Zach Snyder: "Your movie sucks, and in fact, all your newfangled moving pictures suck!"

He then added "You damn kids, get off my lawn! I'm a wizard! And I live in a cave! I'll curse ye's, I will!"

Yeah, sorry, but despite how great a writer Moore is, I made my peace a long time ago with the fact that the man is completely bats**t insane, and the only proper response to anything he says is to smile and nod politely while slowing backing away.

PS: Hey that guy, way to go on calling Moore out for judging a movie before he sees it, and then doing exactly the same thing yourself with Frank Miller. That's not hypocritical and incredibly stupid at ALL.

So anyone who doesn't agree with the rules of big business like movies is insane? You seem to be quite obedient for someone who calls himself The Joker, I think.

So, maybe you could just give up reading his comics, 'cause they are about attacking social conventional behaviour (and a world which gave up art and knowledge for mindless crap), mostly.

And That Guy may not judge a movie beforehand, but it's an obvious joke that someone makes a movie based on Watchmen and cuts it 2:45 h long.

One can't EVEN get started in it with this runtime.

Sometimes using our heads we can prevent unfortunate surprises.

 

[copywrite]

So anyone who doesn't agree with the rules of big business like movies is insane? You seem to be quite obedient for someone who calls himself The Joker, I think.

So, maybe you could just give up reading his comics, 'cause they are about attacking social conventional behaviour (and a world which gave up art and knowledge for mindless crap), mostly.

And That Guy may not judge a movie beforehand, but it's an obvious joke that someone makes a movie based on Watchmen and cuts it 2:45 h long.

One can't EVEN get started in it with this runtime.

Sometimes using our heads we can prevent unfortunate surprises.

I hope you're joking. The book may be complex, but some of you make it seem like it should be 20 hours long to get it right. Unless you read at an incredibly slow rate, it can easily be fit into a 3 hour movie, with all of the nooks and crannies. Quit being ridiculous.

 

[calibud]

I expected this. Mostly because I knew he couldn't even be bothered with watching that amazing trailer.
Moore's a great writer, no doubt. But the guy is so cynical it's sad that he turns away from anything he even slightly disapproves of. Still...he's been burned by the industry. Both mainstream comics and Hollywood. He's the type that holds a grudge, and this one that he's got against film adaptations of ANY work is justified for someone who's struggled with entertainment the way he has. He's an extraordinarily difficult and stubborn person, and show business is the same. Conflicting personalities.


He is kind of hilarious, though:
"So often any film that comes out is going to be a sequel or a remake of a film that's previously existed — and I've said this before, that we will see Johnny Depp playing Cap'n Crunch. It will eventually get down to breakfast cereal mascots!"

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213067_20213068_20213004_2,00.html

 

[Sawyer]

I expected this. Mostly because I knew he couldn't even be bothered with watching that amazing trailer.
Moore's a great writer, no doubt. But the guy is so cynical it's sad that he turns away from anything he even slightly disapproves of. Still...he's been burned by the industry. Both mainstream comics and Hollywood. He's the type that holds a grudge, and this one that he's got against film adaptations of ANY work is justified for someone who's struggled with entertainment the way he has. He's an extraordinarily difficult and stubborn person, and show business is the same. Conflicting personalities.


He is kind of hilarious, though:
"So often any film that comes out is going to be a sequel or a remake of a film that's previously existed — and I've said this before, that we will see Johnny Depp playing Cap'n Crunch. It will eventually get down to breakfast cereal mascots!"

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213067_20213068_20213004_2,00.html

I'd watch...

 

[Bubastis]

That bit about the cereal characters is chillingly true

 

[Sawyer]

That bit about the cereal characters is chillingly true

Hey, we all know that a Count Chockula/Boo Berry/Frankenberry team up would kick all kinds of ass...

 

[Bubastis]

Javier Bardem for Chockula
John C. Reilly for Frankenberry
Paul Newman as Booberry (too soon?)

 

[I Am The Knight]

Alan Moore HATES CGI. So, naturally, you couldn't get him to touch Snyder's Watchmen with a ten foot nightclub pole.

 

[terry78]

Alan Moore HATES CGI. So, naturally, you couldn't get him to touch Snyder's Watchmen with a ten foot nightclub pole.

How the hell did he expect them to do half of the stuff in the book without it?

 

[I Am The Knight]

How the hell did he expect them to do half of the stuff in the book without it?

He didn't. He obviously hates the idea of a Watchmen movie. But if he had his way, it would be made with paper Mache and "magic"

 

[Mercurius]

I hope you're joking. The book may be complex, but some of you make it seem like it should be 20 hours long to get it right. Unless you read at an incredibly slow rate, it can easily be fit into a 3 hour movie, with all of the nooks and crannies. Quit being ridiculous.

Let's make it clearer for your appalling narrow grasp, laddy: it doesn't have to do with how fast you read it. You may read the book in half an hour for all I care. It's not how you receive it, it's how you make it.

It has to do with amount of information, the time needed to make the ideas, emotions & events at least coherent and believable, and pacing.

Now: Moore's work is famous for being just perfect in all these so complex things together. It took a whole book to make it all a working and complex universe.

If you give the movie, based on this really peculiar and detailed book, the same as TDK got, you're giving the audience a very, very tight synthesis.

I understand that all you want and need is the most simple digest they can offer you, and fast, but even you may understand that people can think otherwise and have other kind of expectation.

I suppose, of course.

 

[gwynplaine]

I love Smax by Alan Moore and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it. I hope it becomes a film someday.

 

[Sawyer]

Javier Bardem for Chockula
John C. Reilly for Frankenberry
Paul Newman as Booberry (too soon?)

For shame, Bubastis. The man was a legend for crying out loud!

Give it another couple months, and I might have a chuckle, but now its just... poor taste.

 

[DarkReflections]

I think anyone who claims to be an anarchist is talking nonsense. I'm not sure what stripe of anarchist Moore is, but most present anarchists realize that a minimal form of government is necessary. Since anarchy literally means "without government," such self-professed anarchists are not really anarchists. Hence, they are talking nonsense. If Moore actually believes no form of government is necessary, then he is either preparing for that day by stockpiling small arms in his basement, or he is still talking nonsense. No society can function without some form of government. Anarchist actions can be a means to an end, i.e. to violently overthrow a corrupt government as in V, but once the government has fallen another form of government must replace it. Anyone today who believes that England or the U.S. has reached the point where a violent overthrow of the government has become necessary is talking nonsense.

Of course, he could just claim to be an anarchist to mess with people. That I would wholeheartedly approve of

he actually said in the comic brittania series that he believes at most there should be atleast an administration. heres the link: http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=QX7ehbE1vc0&feature=related

 

[copywrite]

Let's make it clearer for your appalling narrow grasp, laddy: it doesn't have to do with how fast you read it. You may read the book in half an hour for all I care. It's not how you receive it, it's how you make it.

It has to do with amount of information, the time needed to make the ideas, emotions & events at least coherent and believable, and pacing.

Now: Moore's work is famous for being just perfect in all these so complex things together. It took a whole book to make it all a working and complex universe.

If you give the movie, based on this really peculiar and detailed book, the same as TDK got, you're giving the audience a very, very tight synthesis.

I understand that all you want and need is the most simple digest they can offer you, and fast, but even you may understand that people can think otherwise and have other kind of expectation.

I suppose, of course.

lol, you're rich. A good amount of the depth in the book are subtle things you pick up on multiple readings. Do you really need them to spell everything out for you so that you can get it on the first watch? I don't think you get how different movies and books are either. Things move so much faster once you start filming it, and 3 hours is a long, long time to put together a very in depth film. Do me a favor, read a scene from the book, and take a guess at how long you think it would take for that to play out on film. Not long, which isn't bad or anything, but you seem to think that just because Watchmen is very in depth that it MUST be long for it to be right.

You come in with this mindset that 2:45 is not nearly enough to even get started...is that a ****ing joke? Honestly, do you need the scenes spoonfed to you?

 

[Dark Victory]

Alan Moore is a brilliant man....whose genius ends when he stops writing a story.

 

[Mercurius]

lol, you're rich. A good amount of the depth in the book are subtle things you pick up on multiple readings. Do you really need them to spell everything out for you so that you can get it on the first watch? I don't think you get how different movies and books are either. Things move so much faster once you start filming it, and 3 hours is a long, long time to put together a very in depth film. Do me a favor, read a scene from the book, and take a guess at how long you think it would take for that to play out on film. Not long, which isn't bad or anything, but you seem to think that just because Watchmen is very in depth that it MUST be long for it to be right.

You come in with this mindset that 2:45 is not nearly enough to even get started...is that a ****ing joke? Honestly, do you need the scenes spoonfed to you?

Ehhh...copycat, mate, I pray: read my post again, please, 'cause you really started pressing the same key without much thinking.

 

[Mercurius]

Alan Moore is a brilliant man....whose genius ends when he stops writing a story.

In fact, he gives that impression quite often, because he isn't worried about how the mindlees people he criticises in his books will think of him.

 

[Hurm...]

In fact, he gives that impression quite often, because he isn't worried about how the mindlees people he criticises in his books will think of him.

LOL get off Moore's high horse.

 

[Arc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRGQxfuv4SI

 

[Hurm...]

^ LMAO! That guys hilarious! Never saw anyone so " StUUbId" in my life! HAHAHAHAHA!

 

[I Am The Knight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRGQxfuv4SI

I started cracking up at the part where he flipped out the Batman & Robin poster for the first time