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You will be watching the Watchmen
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(Interview with 300 director about casting and how he wants the film to turn out, etc.)
http://www.reelzchannel.com/moviedetail.aspx?movieid=223693&clipid=18326
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I for one am excited. I think the transition from graphic novel to movie will possibly be smooth and the end result will be one hell of a movie packed with awesome.
R rated
3 hours.
Might do the Black Freighter thing
and Gerard Butler has a part
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Pk: What? Why?
Since when did you become the type to shit in threads for no reason?
I thought you were the nice guy.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
But I swear to God, if they so much as muss a hair on the head of the Watchmen I will personally castrate and beat the hell out of everybody involved. With a crowbar. And rip out the ovaries of the women involved.
Thou shalt not fuck with Alan Moore.
pat
--Tad Williams
"THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous."
--Terry Brooks
http://nameofthewind.com/
V For Vendetta.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Constantine
From Hell.
Swamp Thing
The only thing anyone has gotten right of his is " For the Man who has every thing" I think it's the only adaptation that actually has his name on it.
or
excuse me
LXG
NOW GIVE ME YOUR TATER TOTS
Constantine made a little bit of my soul die.
And League was fucked up from the beginning.
Already went over V. The other two mean little to me because I read them post-10-years-old and the sentimental meaning isn't nearly as deep.
This is like a fundamentalist Christian having to watch as the Bible is made into a 3 hour film, except stripped of all of its points that your average American may not want to see.
Leage, however... How did it suck? Let us count the ways....
--Tad Williams
"THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous."
--Terry Brooks
http://nameofthewind.com/
he hates cinema so he calls up devils and trades them bits of his beard to make sure films of his work are awful
Especially since 300 just made 30 mil on it's second weekend. It's already almost doubled the investment money.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
I was talking to my friend about it the other day, and I said he should read the comic.
He goes "Err, I read a few pages but it was pretty much the same as the movie".
My blood turned white.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
I'm going to be honest here. I never read the comic book and that movie almost brought me to tears twice. It freaking blew me away at the end and at a few other spots. Like, I got choked up and found it quite moving and that's not something that normally happens to me in theater. It was one of my favorite movies of last year. But, like I said I never read the source material.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
it was pretty and well filmed and hugo weaving did a good job and such and it was entertaining
it did do a spectacular job of completely and utterly missing the entire goddamned point, though
You see, the comic made me all teary eyed, but the movie? Nah, not so much.
And I actually read the comic after I saw the movie.
Hrmmm
Yes.
What was the point they totally missed? It wasn't about what the movie was about?
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
and because of that I held off from reading it for two, almost three years, just because I knew I'd like the movie more
Huh?
So, have you read it?
v for vendetta hasn't really aged well as a comic
it's pretty clunky and baroque in parts, and lots of the thoughtful bits were poignant in the 80's but aren't really relevant anymore
i love it dearly, but i would never ever ever recommend it to someone who doesn't already read lots of comics
it's be like tossing the complete works of kafka at a fratboy or somesuch
yes
and bonk has described it perfectly
it's like reading watchmen too
and why this movie will probably be terrible
it only worked so well because of the cold war
See, I wouldn't even toss a copy of V for Vendetta to a fratboy.
if they try and change the focus to be relevant to current events it'll be awful
Hayter's script was set in the 80's right?
isn't hayter's script the one they're basically using
it'll be polished an rewritten a bit, of course
but i thought they settled on his
That may count for something.
Moore didn't exactly give it his apporval, but he did say it was the closest that Watchmen could be turned into a movie.
(who wasn't harry knowles so it is mildly more palatable)
read hayter's script and was thrilled by it
and he was really familiar with watchmen, so he may have known what he was talking about
terry gilliam said it best though, when he said the only way watchmen could be done is in like a 10 hour miniseries