I never understoof the mentality of "I don't need to see it, the original was good enough"
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 22/06/2011 01:23:36 AM
I always find it interesting to read new takes on an idea, and forcing Watchmen into a different medium make a different outlook explicitly neccessary. It's not always good, It's not always bad, it's not even always different.
Example of "Excellent, couldn't have been done in the comic:" The opening credits, showing the history of superheroism to the sounds of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin." Seriously, not only is the music PERFECT for that odd, slighty wistful, slightly apprehensive tone that is Watchmen... but the scenes are amazing too. Very comic-like, with short, slow motion scenes punctuated with photography...
Example of "Comic did it better:" Quite a bit, of course. The love scene in the sky was a little too campy in the movie, and the comic had a lot of excellent visual motifs and backstory that was just extremely hard to articulate in movie form.
Different- the ending. Honestly, the comic's ending is... kind of ridiculous. I realize it's supposed to be so incredibly out-there that no one would believe it was faked, but still. If they had stuck with the original ending, it would have fallen flat.
BOTH endings are a bit unsatisfying, because we're expected to believe that humanity will suddenly all become friends through a threat that will never, ever materialize.
(Also in both cases, the enemy is insurmountable- whether its Dr. Manhattan or an alien invasion... there really isn't anything that even the united nations of the world can DO)
Example of "Excellent, couldn't have been done in the comic:" The opening credits, showing the history of superheroism to the sounds of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin." Seriously, not only is the music PERFECT for that odd, slighty wistful, slightly apprehensive tone that is Watchmen... but the scenes are amazing too. Very comic-like, with short, slow motion scenes punctuated with photography...
Example of "Comic did it better:" Quite a bit, of course. The love scene in the sky was a little too campy in the movie, and the comic had a lot of excellent visual motifs and backstory that was just extremely hard to articulate in movie form.
Different- the ending. Honestly, the comic's ending is... kind of ridiculous. I realize it's supposed to be so incredibly out-there that no one would believe it was faked, but still. If they had stuck with the original ending, it would have fallen flat.
BOTH endings are a bit unsatisfying, because we're expected to believe that humanity will suddenly all become friends through a threat that will never, ever materialize.
(Also in both cases, the enemy is insurmountable- whether its Dr. Manhattan or an alien invasion... there really isn't anything that even the united nations of the world can DO)
I amuse myself.
Watchmen Question
- 21/06/2011 04:41:17 AM
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Unlike a lot of people, I actually thought the ending did justice to the graphic novel
- 21/06/2011 08:34:43 AM
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Haven't seen either movie, but read the comic before Watchmen came out
- 21/06/2011 11:28:15 PM
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I never understoof the mentality of "I don't need to see it, the original was good enough"
- 22/06/2011 01:23:36 AM
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That's what I was really wondering
- 22/06/2011 04:17:14 AM
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In the comic, there's a tiny hint that not everything will neccessarily go to plan.
- 22/06/2011 04:56:53 AM
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It's on my to-read list
- 22/06/2011 05:06:20 AM
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