ACor58 Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 I just bought the book yesterday and finished it today. It is awesome!
shrader Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 I just bought the book yesterday and finished it today. It is awesome! And do you agree that they needed to tweak the ending a bit? The squid is a bit much and it a tough sell given the rest of the story.
ACor58 Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 And do you agree that they needed to tweak the ending a bit? The squid is a bit much and it a tough sell given the rest of the story. I totally agree. Since so much of the book is based in "reality" (i.e. Superheroes with no real superpowers) it would have made the ending kind of cheesy.
BillsWatch Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 I bought a hard cover for office. Agree about ending in book and felt Allan Moore wrote himself in corner when I first read it 1987. Moore has been wrong before which he rarely admits. Regarding using made up characters rather than Charlton characters: Moore had initially believed that original characters would not provide emotional resonance for the readers, but later changed his mind. He said, "Eventually, I realized that if I wrote the substitute characters well enough, so that they seemed familiar in certain ways, certain aspects of them brought back a kind of generic super-hero resonance or familiarity to the reader, then it might work." It worked extremely well.
Britbillsfan Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 I liked the ending...especially the last panel. Okay the squid thing was a little...odd...I will not have an issue with that being changed. I think Rorscach's acts of violence (Dog Man, the prison riot, the two police officers) could be enough to push this to an 'R' rating...
BillsWatch Posted November 22, 2008 Posted November 22, 2008 It is already a 'R' - no need to push. They actually tamed it down to not get the dreaded NC-17.
Fewell733 Posted November 22, 2008 Posted November 22, 2008 It is already a 'R' - no need to push. They actually tamed it down to not get the dreaded NC-17. hard to imagine how it would get an NC-17 unless they were trying to show Dr. Manhattan's junk or maybe the mass human carnage in NYC. I think the preview is pretty good, I like the Phillip Glass music and the visuals. The sound bytes they choose aren't what I would choose, but a trailer is made for very particular reasons - to widen a movies appeal.
shrader Posted November 23, 2008 Posted November 23, 2008 hard to imagine how it would get an NC-17 unless they were trying to show Dr. Manhattan's junk or maybe the mass human carnage in NYC. I think the preview is pretty good, I like the Phillip Glass music and the visuals. The sound bytes they choose aren't what I would choose, but a trailer is made for very particular reasons - to widen a movies appeal. Well one soundbite is perfect. "The world will look up and shout 'save us' and I'll whisper 'no'."
Phlegm Alley Posted November 23, 2008 Posted November 23, 2008 The movie looks effing awesome. Good to see Muse getting some play in the previews.
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