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Until then, I'll continue to enjoy the Watchmen film - especially the Rorschach elements - on its own merits. If others don't enjoy it, I'm sure there's plenty that they do like to illuminate their lives.
TG
To me Rorschach plays like a warts and all version of the Clint Eastwood/Charles Bronson vigilante killer. Taken to it's logical extremes.
Rorschach's bitter scowl and low grumbly voice basically recall a ginger Clint Eastwood to me.
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On the one hand I've heard them complain that the film is far too similar to the comic in story and structure, that it really is not it's own entity. (are these the same people who bashed V for Vendetta, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen etc for not being faithful enough to the comics???) On the other hand people bash the few changes that Snyder apparently did make.
V For Vendetta was terrible because they took a story specifically about Thatcherism and early 80s English rule and made it about George W Bush's America. Its no longer a reaction to homosexuals being rounded-up into ghettos, its about appealing to fans of Green Day and their misconception of rebellion.
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a deceptively literary "joke" - if you read the comic, there is more asides and nods and throw-away references to all sorts of famous stories - bashed into a shit-steam heat film that made Sean Connery quit acting.
Watchmen is terrible for similar and specific reasons. Moore called Watchmen "inherently unfilmable", which is not too far from the truth in some aspects and doubly so when you realize its been butchered and boxed from a four hundred and sixteen page story to a one hundred and sixty-three minute film. Moreover, and at the risk of sounding glib, the comic is drawn in a way to mimic movement, depth and scale in the way a film camera does. However, translating that to an actual camera and actual live-action characters ruins the depth, scale and intent that Moore and artist Dave Gibbons created. Its not suppose to be a movie-on-page nor is it suppose to be made literal with live actors (or any actors, arguably), its suppose to be an experience-made-larger. This is a very subtle but important part of why the movie is a failure from the beginning - the intent of the film is inherently not the intent of the story at all.
It could be said that the Watchmen movie came at the best possible time - while we were still in the fallout of The Dark Knight. I won't go into why I think that specific movie was the biggest pile of shit-shoveled pseudo-intellectual garbage any group of humans has ever defecated into existence - but the fact is that the two films deserve each other. The Dark Knight with its smarmy exposition rants and college freshmen discussion on chaos with Snyder's misconception of the political agenda behind Watchmen's statement of "If there's a God, he must be American" goes together in a bad "smart for stupids" intellectual misunderstanding. Two sides of the same coin, both bring out the blather from the rabble.
Making Watchmen was a fools errand. Terry Gilliam gave up twice. Alan Moore had his name removed from the film's credits and refused all connected royalties, calling it blood money. And who can blame him? The end of it is this: If the author of your favorite novel said that the movie adaptation was against his wishes, that it was wrong for it to exist at all, that it had nothing to do with him or her and that they wish it never existed - who would you side with? The writer? Or the studio system and its hack director?
The movie is awful and people should feel awful for enjoying it.
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The movie is awful and people should feel awful for enjoying it.
I see no reason to keep discussing a film with a person who has this mindset.
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I'm not asking you to agree. But wanting me to feel awful because I hold an opposite opinion of you?
Just screams time waster IMO.
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I have a suggestion: since you clearly love the film, why don't you check the original comic? I guarantee you'll love the comic even more than the film after you read it.
I've actually tried reading it and could not get into it. The art actually doesnt look appealing to me at all. Snyder's film thankfully looks a lot better.
Anyway, I'm not a comic book fan anyway.
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