The Watchmen

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Watchmen received critical praise, both inside and outside of the comics industry. Time, which noted that the series was "by common assent the best of breed [sic]" of the new wave of comics published at the time, praised Watchmen as "a superlative feat of imagination, combining sci-fi, political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian mystery story."[56] In 1988, Watchmen received a Hugo Award in the Other Forms category.[57] Since its release, Watchmen has garnered acclaim as a seminal work of the comic book medium. In Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Robert Harvey wrote that with Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons "had demonstrated as never before the capacity of the [comic book] medium to tell a sophisticated story that could be engineered only in comics".[58] In his review of the Absolute Edition of the collection, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times wrote that the dark legacy of Watchmen, "one that Moore almost certainly never intended, whose DNA is encoded in the increasingly black inks and bleak storylines that have become the essential elements of the contemporary superhero comic book," is "a domain he has largely ceded to writers and artists who share his fascination with brutality but not his interest in its consequences, his eagerness to tear down old boundaries but not his drive to find new ones."[59] In 1999, The Comics Journal ranked Watchmen at number 91 on its list of the Top 100 English-Language Comics of the 20th Century.[60] Watchmen was the only graphic novel to appear on Time's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present".[61] Time critic Lev Grossman described the story as "a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium."[62] In 2008, Entertainment Weekly placed it at number 13 on its list of the best 50 novels printed in the last 25 years, describing it as "The greatest superhero story ever told and proof that comics are capable of smart, emotionally resonant narratives worthy of the label literature."[63]

Highly anticipating the movie. If it's anything close to the comic it should be good. Anyone else read it? thoughts on the movie?

[misslissa]

i didnt read it - and i think im pretty much tired of the superhero/comic movies.

[jake]

I'm looking forward to this movie.

[b.ho]

it's an obvious it will look spectacular. just wondering how the pace will go. a must see for me.

[ariel]

the next big craze after the comic book movie: the hentai movie, who here doesnt want to see angelina jolie get tentacle raped?

[Latro]

Looks good...  I hear the graphic novels were pretty complex and it will be difficult for them to put it to film.  Here's hoping they figured it out!

[Labyrinthine]

Comic was teh hawtness, at least from what I've read.

Movie has me worried - it'll be interesting how things will turn out. Either amazing or horrible.

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i didnt read it - and i think im pretty much tired of the superhero/comic movies.

the next big craze after the comic book movie: the hentai movie, who here doesnt want to see angelina jolie get tentacle raped?

Wtf this isn't just a comic book movie URHG I HAT U GAIS.

Only graphic novel to win Hugo award hullloooo.

[mikehale]

got tickets to go see this in imax for friday. i'm super excited.

[Latro]

got tickets to go see this in imax for friday. i'm super excited.

Next Friday?

[mikehale]

the 6th.

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Well I saw it.

Few things I have opinions about:

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1. Didn't really like the sound editing at certain parts, made some scenes (like the sex scene in Archie) more comical than they should have been.

2. My inner fanboy didn't like the fact that they slightly changed the ending and took out the gruesome images that were in the graphic novel of all the blood in Times Square. I do understand why the true ending doesn't really appeal to the general audience. But I mean, the giant squid appearing in New York and killing everyone was what made it so disturbing in the first place.

3. I think Snyder goes overboard with the whole slow motion to fast motion thing sometimes.

4. I don't think Snyder really conveyed the dark ending well enough, I got the feeling that most people in the theater didn't understand that the world was going to end when Rorscharch sent his journal to the Frontiersmen

5. No Tales of the Black Freighter makes me think that Snyder kind of dumbed the story down to appeal to the masses.

Overall though I enjoyed the movie; it posed many of the same moral questions the book did which I liked. Also, I'll give it to Snyder for accurately visually portraying the novel, a lot of the scenes looked directly lifted from the panels.





I'm really curious to hear what people who haven't read the novel think of it.

[ariel]

im eagerly anticipating the blue dong

[b.ho]

bright yellow hurts me eyes

[Latro]

im eagerly anticipating the blue dong

Boy: "Which character was your favorite?"
Girl: "The Blue One"
Boy: "What did you like about him... he had cool powers?"
Girl: "He had powers...... ?"

This was a conversation I heard earlier today.  Apparently it leaves impressions on the women.