FeedWatchmen
March 12 2009, 7:00pm
I had mixed feelings about the movie. I thought it was by *far* the best comic-book adaptation I've seen, in the sense that it really captured a huge chunk of the style and feel (not to mention the vast majority of the plot & dialogue) of the comic. (Iron Man was a better superhero movie, but it was all movie & not really comic-book).
What became apparent, especially with the dialogue, is that some things that work in comic book form simply *don't* work onscreen. The dialogue was always a little clunky (Moore's often is, which is one reason why I'm suspicious of his rep as a brilliant writer), but coming out of the mouths of actual actors, it really fell flat.
I was also mystified by the change of the ending--the new ending didn't really alter the tone that much (or, actually, it darkened it further, since it killed a *lot* more people), so I can't quite figure out what was up with that.
Rorschach was *great*. And overall, I enjoyed it enough that I'll probably shell out for the big ol' special-edition Blu-Ray when it comes out, *especially* if it comes with 40 minutes of Tales of the Black Freighter footage intercut with the feature.
What became apparent, especially with the dialogue, is that some things that work in comic book form simply *don't* work onscreen. The dialogue was always a little clunky (Moore's often is, which is one reason why I'm suspicious of his rep as a brilliant writer), but coming out of the mouths of actual actors, it really fell flat.
I was also mystified by the change of the ending--the new ending didn't really alter the tone that much (or, actually, it darkened it further, since it killed a *lot* more people), so I can't quite figure out what was up with that.
Rorschach was *great*. And overall, I enjoyed it enough that I'll probably shell out for the big ol' special-edition Blu-Ray when it comes out, *especially* if it comes with 40 minutes of Tales of the Black Freighter footage intercut with the feature.
