Comments on: Who Plays The Watchmen?

By: roryok

roryok — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:33 +0000

If there's one man who can film a famously unfilmable comic like Watchmen, it's the man who has taken the unfilmable comic 300, and made it into an unfilm. Such unacting! Such untertainment. I can't understand how so many people enjoyed that heap of festering shite. I think I'd rather have been actually kicked in the face by Gerard Butler

By: Rathy

Rathy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:15:41 +0000

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By: theleif

theleif — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:21:21 +0000

The only director that could have made it work was Stanley Kubrick.

Rorshach and Nite Owl as Action Heroes? No, no, no, no, no.
No

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:43:59 +0000

Looks like the game might not be the hideous cash-in it first seemed Maybe.

By: Kavika

Kavika — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:35:31 +0000

Lol at 1985 band SP. Yes, I got the joke ;)

By: ape

ape — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:59:09 +0000

Young David Lynch…? Really?

Hmm, as long as it’s not the let’s throw in some midgets for good measure David Lynch.

“This is a formica table… it’s color is green.”

Fuck David Lynch. Sorry, had to get that out of my system.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:04:50 +0000

@Thomas: The thing with Watchmen is, its so much tied to the comic form (symmetrical episodes, overlapping/intercutting juxtap-positioning narratices etc.), some of the techniques just can’t be done on screen – it won’t work like Sin City – which is a far less sophisticated comic and was translated shot-for-shot for screen. Cutting anything out from Watchmen will weaken the whole structure as its all connected (the Pirate story’s a good example of how the hell are they going to do that).

It’s both easier and harder to make an excellent 3 minute trailer, but difficult to keep that level of choreography going for 90-120 minutes… (cf: short stories and novels)

I think. Hope it will be great, suspect it’ll be alright…

By: john

john — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:50:16 +0000

They have a bulletproof way of not ruining the Watchmen mythos with the game. Just say it’s published by Veidt games, then it’s Adrian Veidt shamelessly cashing in with a mediocre tie in, which is utterly in character.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:38:40 +0000

I’d love a time-travelling ‘No Country’ shooter where you get to go back in time and shoot Cormac McCarthy before he’d written that bollocks.

Sing it, sister.

By: Zeh

Zeh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:13:05 +0000

I’d take the Dr. Manhattan text adventure:

You are in an abstract anti-matter state. You feel like your half-life has just begun. You do not exist withing the known boundaries of the world. The void is pitch dark. You are likely to be deconstructed by a tachyon.

> MATERIALIZE
You cannot materialize yet (requires level 10).

> MATERIALIZE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
You are a walking circulatory system.
You are in some sort of kitchen.

> NORTH
You try walking north. Kitchen workers scream when they see you.
You cannot keep your materialized state and is turned back into an anti-matter state.

> MATERIALIZE MUSCLE, SKELETONS
You are a walking skeletons with muscles.
You are outdoor, near some kind of military base. There are guards around.

> SCREAM
You scream for a while, calling the guards’ attention and making them puke when they see you.
You are now level 2!
You cannot keep your materialized state and is turned back into an anti-matter state.

By: inle

inle — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:17:41 +0000

>HIT DOG WITH CLEAVER

>X NEUTRINO

>ASK HAPPY HARRY ABOUT HIMSELF

>BURN MAP WITH LIGHTER

>ASK KOVACS ABOUT CHILDHOOD

>DROP PHOTOGRAPH

>TIE SHARK TO RAFT

>THROW PERFUME AT CASTLE

>PUSH RED BUTTON

By: James T

James T — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:41:17 +0000

I’d love a time-travelling ‘No Country’ shooter where you get to go back in time and shoot Cormac McCarthy before he’d written that bollocks.

>get information

How do you want me to get the information?