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I have to say from the screenshots and trailers it seems to have got the look, but then we know Snyder can do visuals.

If anything a little too polished? It is supposed to be a rotten and gritty world.


but as Brendan says, definite trepidation, but not a little excitement.

Booked in to see it at the Imax, so have to wait a week.

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I remember when Dune was made into a film, it was apparently 8 and a half hours long, almost 6 hours of which ended up on the cutting room floor, and it basically made absolutely no sense at all (and eventually got made (completely anew, not with that material) into a mini-series (of dubious quality, with a really fit Princess Irulan as I recall)) and Frank Herbert expressed some wish that there might be a way to release it as a long film/mini series.


This was about 15 years before DVDs existed, so no reason why there wouldn't be a full length Watchmen if that much was cut, the LoTR people did it.

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It is a bit rubbish. Risible on so many levels. And yet..


I heard/read someone else talking about it somewhere who summed-up exactly what I thought about it: they said that despite all its very obvious failings, whenever they thought about the book they couldn't help thinking about the film - in a sort-of companion piece way. I think there's something in that somewhere.

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Brendan wrote:-LotR always gives me hope that it is possible to make a film/s that do a book justice.



I have seen only one film that could replace the book "A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch" that movie would have saved you reading the book.


Dune the book I loved and was gripped by, but the movie I yawned.


I loved lord of the rings book too, but have deliberately avoided the film.


They have made some wonderful films of the Dickens classics, but none can replace the reading of the book in my opinion.

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Nearly got excited about the film till I saw the running time. It took me a year to read the book (nothing compared to the wait for From Hell or even Big Numbers) but I begrudge Zac Snyder two and a half hours, I turned off 300 after 45 minutes! The man is really the most anodyne of directors, unable to drive any ideas of his own he takes wholesale from the comic book world, too shallow to realize the comic book is to celluloid as poetry is to the pop video.


On a similair note, what the hell happened to Burlyman Comics? Doc Frankenstien and Shaolin Cowboy were excellant and I could really do with a shot of Geoff Darrow right now.


The only comic book adaptation that worked was A History of Violence. Can anyone think of any others? Cartoons don't count.


http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/publicenemies/ looks good.

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Really? I think 2 and a half hours is too short.


Surely considering the hard hitting social messages in watchmen someone like Snyder who will ?translate it verbatim? is what they were looking for. Or is that me being naive in assuming that Joe Public is going to have the wherewithal to think about what the writer is trying to say about the world they inhabit?


As for recent adaptations, I liked Road to Perdition and Sin City. I can?t say From Hell did the book justice. Actually all of the attempts to film Alan Moore?s work so far have been a bit rubbish. Not necessarily rubbish films, just rubbish compared to the books.

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Yeah, forgot about Sin City, what a great film that was, the flip side of course being The Spirit. And I suppose it could be a geek thing, I prefer to think of it as 'media' thing, or opinion on the artistic media of the 20/21st century. We now have film, T.V., comic books, music, gaming and mobile communications that in the scheme of things are incredibly new and young media compared to the traditional.
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