Watchmen

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what do you guys think of the graphic novel/movie?

I liked the movie. I haven't read the graphic novel yet though. Rorschach's pretty cool.

I enjoyed the graphic novel more than the film. I find most typographical and print editions to be more enjoyable than their derived films, though many films create an audiovisual expression of the material that is impressive and insightful. I felt that the film version of Watchmen was strange. A graphical novel is already pictorial. It is such a wonderful medium. Seeing a film of it felt much worse than a film adaptation of a typical book, that provides something new. It seemed both highly bereft of perspective and redundant.

This, however suggests something that would hold true of all films derived from graphic novels. However, as a contrasting example, the world of Batman is vastly episodic. A film adaptation of Batman has no choice but to compartmentalize and provide new perspective in order to be successful. The Watchmen was, by film standards, a long 3D adaptation of something that was well expressed in it's 12-issue 2D entirety.

I love the comic and must admit the movie wasn't the disaster I thought it would be.

Actually, I like the ending in the movie better than the ending from the book.

PS

Ozymandias is a pompous ass!

Graphic Novel is amazing! The movie was okay... But it didn't really have a soul... It was like they just tried to rip a scene by scene thing from as much of the comic as possible without trying to make it a good film as well... I do appreciate Zacks effort to support the fans though.

yeah, graphic novel was better. i do feel the jail scenes were better in the movie IMO

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I am the only one to feel that Ozymandias plot is more credible in the comic that in the movie ?

I was one of those people who was aware of the graphic novel and most of the plot points, but hadn't actually read it prior to seeing the movie. I think not having read the book first allowed me to enjoy the movie more, since I was able to view it more as a philosophical action movie than as an adaptation of a favorite novel, and it works quite well on that level. After I read the book, I was actually even more impressed with the movie and how well it followed the source material, the few deviations even felt like enhancements given the age of the work and the limitations of the live action media. I also thought the period setting was very well done, and that the soundtrack helped to capture the era. All that, and I loved that they didn't shy away from an R rating for a comic book movie, this was dark material and it really needed the violence and the language to be effective.

Also watching Watchmen does anybody else think that Jeffrey Dean Morgan (played The Comedian) could be great as Batman/Bruce Wayne in an adaption of The Dark Knight Returns? I actually just re-read the graphic novel and thought that he could pull off the older and gritty batman pretty well

I thought the film's ending was much better than the graphic novel's ending. I also thought the film's casting was amazing! I especially liked Jackie Earle Haley and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. In a lot of ways I like the graphic novel more, but the film is really well done. My only gripe is the film's gratuitous violence. For example, the scene when Rorschach hits the guy's head repeatedly in silhouette with a knife: that scene wasn't in the graphic novel. In the novel he spread lighter fluid all over the place, while the guy was hand-cuffed. He then lit the place on fire, but you didn't actually see the guy burn alive.