[EyeballGrowth]

Sorry, I love the Watchmen book but this movie looks awful. From the director of 300? Pleease they couldn't have picked a better director? Anyway most of the book is talking, it's more like reading a novel but it looks like they are focusing on the super power aspects of it and lots of slow mo action. Uggh. I don't think it will be good. Alan Moore will probably hate it too just like he hated V. So that's From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen. Hope hollywood stays away from his early scifi/punk stuff like Quinch and Skizz

[EyeballGrowth]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

It's too bad that Terry Gilliam couldn't get his shit together to do it...but that's happened with him and a lot of projects.

Terry Gilliam is amazing, he could've done it justice. I'd rather see him do other stuff though like a Neil Gaiman adaptation. After I read Neverwhere ( which could be the best fantasy book ever aside from the Hobbit ) I was really really hoping Gilliam would do it, but now I find out he's going to do " Good Omens " the only Neil Gaiman book I haven't read. Damn. I want to see neverwhere. It'll probably get sold to some crappy illequipped movie company like Stardust did and get made into a crappy harry potter wannabe garbage movie

[davenotdead]

everyone is saying how it looks awesome... i dont buy it... not a real watchmen fan, but neither are most people talking to me about it... jackie earl haley was fantastic in Little Children, so his casting is encouraging, but aside from that... i don't know, i'll reserve judgement tho for trailer 2 or 3

[pbradley]

When I first heard it was from the director of 300, for some reason I forgot Snyder directed it and assumed that Frank Miller was actually going to be his first solo directorial debut. Turns out I confused it with The Spirit. Would have been awesome if Miller did Watchmen.

[davenotdead]

yeah sorry 300 sucked

[EyeballGrowth]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

yeah sorry 300 sucked

indeeeeeed it did. In a HUGE way. So I'm not the only one! Awesome ::highfive::

[mangajunky]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

Hope hollywood stays away from his early scifi/punk stuff like Quinch and Skizz

New from PIXAR! - D.R. and Quinch



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Mind the oranges, Marlon.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

Sorry, I love the Watchmen book but this movie looks awful. From the director of 300? Pleease they couldn't have picked a better director? Anyway most of the book is talking, it's more like reading a novel but it looks like they are focusing on the super power aspects of it and lots of slow mo action. Uggh. I don't think it will be good. Alan Moore will probably hate it too just like he hated V. So that's From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen. Hope hollywood stays away from his early scifi/punk stuff like Quinch and Skizz

I thought V was very good and fit the comic very well.

From hell was an OK movie but it had NOTHING to do with the story from the comic (which I have read twice and is fucking amazing)

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

Terry Gilliam is amazing, he could've done it justice. I'd rather see him do other stuff though like a Neil Gaiman adaptation. After I read Neverwhere ( which could be the best fantasy book ever aside from the Hobbit ) I was really really hoping Gilliam would do it, but now I find out he's going to do " Good Omens " the only Neil Gaiman book I haven't read. Damn. I want to see neverwhere. It'll probably get sold to some crappy illequipped movie company like Stardust did and get made into a crappy harry potter wannabe garbage movie

Good Omens is a very good book, more whimsical and apocalyptic than neverwhere.


neverwhere was fucking good too!

[EyeballGrowth]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I thought V was very good and fit the comic very well.

Yeah, It's the one movie I haven't seen that I will never watch in my life. I liked the comic too much and I've heard from people I trust that it's NOTHING like it, and that they pretty much turned V into Neo from the Matrix and it's all about slow motion karate scenes.

[EyeballGrowth]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Good Omens is a very good book, more whimsical and apocalyptic than neverwhere.


neverwhere was fucking good too!

Not to turn this into a Neil Gaiman thread but yeah, I've heard nothing but good things about Good Omens. More whimsical really? The thing I loved about Neverwhere was that it was dark and serious, but whimsical at the same time. Such a perfect fantasy book. And it was so detailed. They described the underground world in such detail, like croup and vandemars abandoned hospital.

Anyway, I've gotta read it someday. Only book of his I didn't like was Stardust. It was a bit TOO whimsical and generic fairy tale for my tastes. Man I really am a picky bastard

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

Yeah, It's the one movie I haven't seen that I will never watch in my life. I liked the comic too much and I've heard from people I trust that it's NOTHING like it, and that they pretty much turned V into Neo from the Matrix and it's all about slow motion karate scenes.

actually, the movie was less faggy

kind of like the crow
ha ha! just kidding of course

the movie was very good adaptation I thought.

I know what you mean though, because I hate watching movies if I have read the book beforehand. the movie almost always comes off cheap and thin

[Rob Instigator]

I did not finish stardust
I agree with ya on that one

I guess "whimsical" si not the right word for good omens. More like anarchic.