Comments on: Who Watches The… Ah, Fuggedit: Screenshots!

By: Solario

Solario — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:21:39 +0000

SPOILERS:

The ending changes are a thematic nightmare. Making it seem like Manhattan’s fault is in no way going to unite the world against an outside threat. This just means that the American government is punished by nemesis for their hubris of utilizing a modern day god for their own gains.

It’s a terrible change. There’s a reason the squid is layered with telepathic images to suggest that it’s an extraterrestrial threat.

By: Rodafowa

Rodafowa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:57:46 +0000

I’m wondering if as a non-comic reader I’d actually end up appreciating what Watchmen was trying to do.

As with others here, Watchmen was one of the first comics I ever read. Forget the deconstructionist stuff, you should read it because it’s brilliantly written. It’s funny, it’s clever, it’s exciting, it’s moving, it’s frightening, it’s packed with memorable characters and cracking dialogue. Oh, and it’s beautifully drawn. That enough for you? :)

By: mister slim

mister slim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:53:12 +0000

@Pags

Another reason for removing the squid would be that the squid only makes sense in the context of the story with the pirate comic and the island subplot featuring the comic creator and the artist, and the movie’s not going to have time to go into that. Personally I think that will be the main thing I miss in the movie, the richness of all the interwoven stories that a movie doesn’t have space for.

By: Mr. President

Mr. President — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:10:19 +0000

Just be happy that it’s only a harmless prequel and not the butchering of the main story. Imagine what a gigantic pile of crap that game would be. Guess who you would have to fight during a final showdown in New York?

By: Grandstone

Grandstone — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:48:56 +0000

@john t

That’s what I said!

By: john t

john t — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:22:56 +0000

i agree, though i don’t think you get that much out of the deconstruction of super heroes unless you’ve had a decent amount of exposure to the form.

Watchmen was the first comic book I’d ever read, and it was 15 years after it originally came out. I actually sat in a Borders and read it front to back in one sitting, because I couldn’t put it down. I’d absorbed enough Superhero history from watching Saturday Morning Cartoons and having nerd friends for me to get it, and the Annotated Watchmen filled me in on everything I’d missed.

By: john t

john t — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:19:53 +0000

If you watched Citizen Kane, you wouldn’t be impressed by Charlie Chaplain’s The Tramp, but The Tramp would have blown your socks off if it was the first moving picture you ever saw. If you watched Wrath of Kahn, you wouldn’t be impressed much by Citizen Kane anymore. Superman blew away Wrath of Kahn. The Matrix was so revolutionary it made Superman look like Superman IV. Now The Dark Knight arguably makes The Matrix look like Matrix Revolutions.

what

By: Pags

Pags — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:02:17 +0000

Oh, I know, I recently read it myself. Just a poor attempt at a joke :)

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:53:56 +0000

@Pags

Trust me Fallout 3 is a paradise of an environment compared to the cold bleak horror of Cormac McCarthys ‘The Road’

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:23:34 +0000

Rorshach would really make a great (if hyper-violent) adventure game hero.

By: Grandstone

Grandstone — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:23:32 +0000

Not to be a film-school ass, but I like how Gorgeras’s film canon goes from Charlie Chaplin to Citizen Kane to The Wrath of Khan.

Movie games have always sucked (Riddick and Goldeneye excepted), and Rorschach is a fucked up individual, which makes me wonder how the game will handle that. On the other hand, his derangement is a pretty good excuse for whatever the player does in the unlikely event that the game gives the player lots of freedom.

By: Pags

Pags — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:39:46 +0000

Scandalon: I’m not entirely sure, there’s some mumbling about making the emphasis be on the characters and that the squid might detract from that, but I really couldn’t guess myself; well, I could, but it would be my inner-cynic saying it’s probably to make it more palatable to movie audiences, so I won’t go there (wait… bugger).