Comments on: Is Watchmen Unfilmable?

By: Who listens to the Watchmen? Thoughts on Watchmen’s Score and Songs | Overthinking It

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:33:54 +0000

[...] kind of a shame, because the music department did something really interesting here. (Our own Mlawski saw this coming, as devout OTIketeers will no doubt [...]

By: gray/matter » Review: Watchmen, how watchable is the unfilmable movie?

gray/matter » Review: Watchmen, how watchable is the unfilmable movie? — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:34:18 +0000

[...] Watchmen, we have a vastly ambitious attempt to convert what has been called an “unfilmable” work into celluloid. How well viewers think the effort turned out is breaking down along [...]

By: mlawski

mlawski — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:52:21 +0000

@alexinou: Glad you liked the piece. I did see Watchmen. Strangely, I have few feelings about it. I neither hated nor loved it. The best part, as many reviewers claimed, was the intro credits, which seemed to me more in line with Moore’s tone in the book than anything else (especially the Leonard Cohen sex scene…ewwww). During the rest of it, my feeling was, “Eh, I might as well just reread the comic.”

Another interesting thing I didn’t expect was the difference between reading text and hearing it aloud. Specifically, Rorschach’s diary VOs in the comic worked, where I thought in the movie they were unnecessary and over the top. I quite liked his actor, however.

By: Who Watches the Watchmen? | See What's In My Brain

Who Watches the Watchmen? | See What's In My Brain — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:53:03 +0000

[...] that’s why this graphic novel has been labeled unfilmable – even by the author himself – for more than twenty years. Technically, yes it can and was filmed [...]

By: alexinou

alexinou — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:25:46 +0000

Hi mlawski.

Thanks for your analysis, it’s really interesting and an excellent comparison.

I guess it is fair to say you have now seen the movie. I would be really curious to know what you think about it.

Alexandre

By: McGhee

McGhee — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:21:25 +0000

Although I’m not sure when this is written, it’s definately clear they have many quotes directly from the novel. I personally, think it’ll be pretty damn faithful. Of course, direct translation IS impossible, but that can be said about Sin City (Which also used changing times) and that was a damn good film.

I have quite a bit of faith in Snyder. He’s obviously a diehard comic book fanatic, and for the fans of the novel, that’s a good thing. I’ve not seen any key shot so far that is not directly from the page, or slightly altered but still the same idea.

Concerning Nite-Owl’s costume, I think that if Watchmen had been drawn today, he would look much more like that. The movie shouldn’t just relive the 1980’s idea of heroes, but modernize it slightly into the more modern idea of body-armours as costumes. After all, they WERE being shot at. Tights are bullet-proof now?

By: “It’s the ultimate head-to-head competition, and movies are the Washington Generals” « Stacked

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:59 +0000

[...] know, The Watchmen has recently been made into a film- despite the fact that it’s long been considered unfilmable- and given the book’s cult status, a lot of people are going to either to be really happy or [...]

By: Gab

Gab — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:48:06 +0000

Marty- You’re saying he didn’t look like a popsicle on the page?

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:18:36 +0000

Dr. Manhatten looks laughable in this incarnation. Like a bright blue popsicle.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:24 +0000

My opinions exactly.

And Zack Snyder a ‘Visionary’? Yeah, because, umm, 300 had loads of spears going through people in slow motion. That was his ‘vision’ of the world? Pretentious twat.