Watchmen (Alan Moore)

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri

Also, as Alan Moore said, Watchmen was written to be impossible to accurately reproduce in terms of cinema. He was right, because it wasn't. From Hell wasn't, V for Vendetta wasn't, League wasn't and Watchmen wasn't.
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Xmen was vastly more in accurate, your statement here can be said of almost any movie based on a comic.

Originally posted by Battlehammer
No comic movie can be compeltely accurate to the comics, your setting an unachievable standard and whining about a film that was vastly better then most any other comic movie.

Xmen was vastly more in accurate, your statement here can be said of almost any movie based on a comic.

Those movies are character-based and not set on depicting an accurate, comic-to-movie story.

Iron Man wasn't accurate, totally, storywise. It was accurate character-wise.

There are too many singular stories in those franchises to cram everything true in, and they're often considered to be BASED on the comics, USING the characters.

Watchmen is Watchmen. One story, one set of characters.

You fail in perceiving the difference it seems. There is a factual difference.

Either way, I've said all I need to on the topic. So, Will can reply, or you can reply, and that can be that.

-AC

I don't need to reply, I think our opinions are quite clear by now 🙂

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Also, as Alan Moore said, Watchmen was written to be impossible to accurately reproduce in terms of cinema.

Originally posted by willRules
I don't need to reply, I think our opinions are quite clear by now 🙂

Respect to you, sir.

T'was fun.

-AC

lulz @ anyone think they're going to win any of these "debates" against AC.

Originally posted by -V-
lulz @ anyone think they're going to win any of these "debates" against AC.

Originally posted by -V-
lulz @ anyone think they're going to win any of these "debates" against AC.

I need therapy afterwords cry

Never before have I felt that something so subjective was expressed as factual.....

Originally posted by Doctor-Alvis
That's factually true.

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Originally posted by -V-
lulz @ anyone think they're going to win any of these "debates" against AC.

Battlehammer, don't be sad.

Be glad.

-AC

that rhymed

I have a serous question for you, why do you always post -AC after every thing, are you worried people will forget your incials.

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Originally posted by Battlehammer
that rhymed

I have a serous question for you, why do you always post -AC after every thing, are you worried people will forget your incials.

I thought the same thing.

-WR

It's standard practice on many other sites.

-SC

It's pure coolness. Almost as cool as the Watchmen graphic novel itself.

-DM

Some of you (in this thread) have said that Watchmen isn't the best graphic novel you've read. I'm just curious, for those of you who said that, which graphic novels do you like better/consider better than Watchmen?

The initials are shorthand for "Hey everyone, check out how classy I am."

-DA

P.S. It kind of depends on what kind of mood I'm in. Classifying things as "better" or "worse" on technical merits, whether it be writing, drawing, music, etc, even though it's the part of the foundation of its respective subject, is more of a novelty to me. Which comic is better to a person is mostly subjective, the same way any other piece of art's beauty is subjective. And I'm not about to start grading things on technical merits because then I'd have to start carrying a ruler everywhere.

That being said, I think I liked Starman v2 more. I could kinda relate to Jack Knight so it really pulled me into the story more. Both are good books though.

P.P.S -DA

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Some of you (in this thread) have said that Watchmen isn't the best graphic novel you've read. I'm just curious, for those of you who said that, which graphic novels do you like better/consider better than Watchmen?

Well I prefer Millar's run on Ultimates. I also think Kevin Smith's work at the beginning of the current series of Darevil. His opening arc was called "Guardian Devil" and I thought it was brilliant.

I'm aware taste is subjective, but I can't quite be sure what I just read is accurate.

Did you just say Kevin Smith wrote something better than Alan Moore? Watchmen was created by Alan Moore, Daredevil was just written by Smith. Frank Miller Vs Alan Moore is the common debate, and Moore often wins. It's not fact obviously, but if the general consensus among thinking comic book fans is that Daredevil's best writer is lesser than Moore even on his OWN stuff, why is Kevin Smith better?

I liked Guardian Devil, but it's the arc you'd always recommend to someone who'd already read Born Again.

Whereas if someone says "What graphic novel would you recommend?", you'd probably say Watchmen before you said The Dark Knight Returns.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri

Did you just say Kevin Smith wrote something better than Alan Moore?

-OS