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Old 08-27-2008, 11:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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WOW

wonder how the hell did they adapt it to a movie....
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Old 08-28-2008, 12:00 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I just finished it last week, thought the same thing. Great book huh?
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Old 08-28-2008, 11:58 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I heard they're going to make it like 3 hours long to try to get as much as they can into it. Supposedly Kevin Smith already saw (some of) it and said something like "This is ####### awesome."
Watchmen is very, very high on my list of best books evar.
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If you want to know how to turn that story into a movie, track down the first season of
'The Outer Limits'. I'm almost positive its the very first episode, but I know it was in the
first season.

Note: I'm not talking about the new one--I mean the old black and white one. The one
that pre-dates 'The Watchmen' and tells the same basic story in under an hour.

Not knocking 'The Watchmen'--I thought it had some cool stuff going for it. But for me,
it wasn't that original of a plot. Just more than was usually found in a comic.
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I'm calling it right now that the movie is going to be awful - assuming it even gets released due to the sh!tstorm FOX is kicking up about it:

1) The material is far too dense for one movie. If anything the structure of the story itself calls for a two-parter, even a trilogy to make sure there's decent coverage on film.
2) I'll bet money that the ending will be considerably altered, if not changed entirely, for being too Nine-Eleveny. Something like in the scrapped 80s script where the climactic action is an attempt to assassinate Dr. Manhattan to alter the timeline a la BttF.

I remember when V For Vendetta came out and people were up in arms about how awful it was compared to the book. I had no idea what they were talking about, then I read it myself. Beyond Alan Moore's personal dislike of adaptations to his work, his material simply dosen't seem to translate well into the confines of movies.
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I just finished my current book and was looking for something new to read. Can someone tell me who wrote this, I searched my college library and the only thing I found was Watchmen - Alan Moore (1953) which we don't even have available. Is this the right book? Thanks in advance.
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I just finished my current book and was looking for something new to read. Can someone tell me who wrote this, I searched my college library and the only thing I found was Watchmen - Alan Moore (1953) which we don't even have available. Is this the right book? Thanks in advance.
Weird, that dosen't make a whole lot of sense. Alan Moore did write Watchmen but a good three decades after the date you have listed. I'd check up on the listing to make sure, it could be a typo on the publication year or something.
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