The Dark Knight vs Watchmen

Here is where you can post your opinions on this topic, because frankly, we all know they are the two biggest hitters. Keep it clean, lets not bicker, but hopefully there can be some good discussion over this.

Before I thought The Dark Knight was the best film of the genre. But after viewing the DC of Watchmen I find myself seriously reconsidering my opinion.

What do you think? Has Watchmen dethroned The Dark Knight as the best film of the genre? If you think neither of these films are as great as I state then state your top and state where these two compare.

TDK was brilliant the Watchmen was pretty good.

Aw dude this is a good question. I loved both TDK and Watchmen alot. Favorite Character in TDK?: The Joker. Favorite Character in Watchmen?: Rorshach. Least Favorite Character in TDK?: Dont have one. Least Favorite Character in Watchmen?: Silk Spectre I(IDK she is really annoying to me. Not like she was in the book). I give my vote to TDK for that sole purpose

i didnt like the watchment that much. i guess because i dont know alot about the characters cause i never read their comis maybe. the movie was long as hell to

Watchmen is much better as a graphic novel..

I did like the movie, but it is not all that it is cracked up to be..

The Dark Knight is leaps and bounds waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Watchmen

Originally posted by Premium
TDK was brilliant the Watchmen was pretty good.

That sums it up.

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
The Dark Knight is leaps and bounds waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Watchmen

Watchmen was just another comic book movie.

It was really fun, but it wasn't an out-of-this-world cinematic accomplishment. The Dark Knight was.

Part of Watchmen's failings was the fact that it had a set source. Batman didn't. Watchmen being as unfaithful as it was is precisely a main reason why it didn't work.

I thought most of the cast were unfitting, except Dreiberg and maybe Comedian. Too much was cut out, too much was changed. Alan Moore did ten times more in a few issues of a comic than Hollywood could do with millions of dollars, multiple editions of DVD and C.G.I.

-AC

Watchmen was the better book. TDK was the better movie, by quite a bit.

Originally posted by Darth Martin
I disagree. I watched both The Dark Knight and Watchmen: Directors Cut last night and it may be b/c I've tired out of TDK but I enjoyed Watchmen a hell of alot more.

I'll never tire out of The Dark Knight..

Too me Watchmen is a much better graphic novel that horribly plays like a movie.. I will buy the Watchmen DVD but will only watch it sparingly unlike TDK which I watch every other day

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Watchmen was the better book. TDK was the better movie, by quite a bit.

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The Dark Knight SUCKED. Why they would upgrade Joker and not Batman I will never understand - the only reason people are turning it into a cult film is because that moron managed to kill himself in the process - a fact I am still celebrating about.

The Watchmen was PHENOMENAL - very close to the original story, with the paranoid atmosphere of the 80s and the Cold War perfectly slipped into background.

Not even a close contest...

Originally posted by Dreampanther
The Dark Knight SUCKED. Why they would upgrade Joker and not Batman I will never understand - the only reason people are turning it into a cult film is because that moron managed to kill himself in the process - a fact I am still celebrating about.

Originally posted by Dreampanther
The Watchmen was PHENOMENAL - very close to the original story, with the paranoid atmosphere of the 80s and the Cold War perfectly slipped into background.

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You were hypnotized by the giant blue wang weren't you?

Watchmen is the better comic book movie, while TDK is more like a crime drama.

To SC:

Umm, actually - since Watchmen is still the only graphic novel even rated on Time Magazine's 100 best novels published in the English language since 1923, and since the producers actually made a real effort to keep close to the original story of the man who ACTUALLY WROTE THE ORIGINAL NOVEL, I think I might not be the only one blinded by some moron's inabilty to control his lifestyle, resulting in his death.

In the words of the immortal Bill Hicks - "Hey, another moron is dead - I feel like dancing!" Why should I pity an idiot who abuses drugs and dies from it? Simply pathetic...

I love the Dark Knight graphic novels - they are still two of my favourite stories ever told and two of my favourite graphic novels in my collection- and I think Frank Miller is an absolute genius - but the film was completely unbalanced, with no effort made to recreate the Batman that Frank Miller envisioned.

So, if all you can remember about Watchmen is that there was a giant blue wang - do you suppose it is possible that YOU are the one with the homo-erotic fascination...?

Originally posted by Dreampanther
To SC:

Umm, actually - since Watchmen is still the only graphic novel even rated on Time Magazine's 100 best novels published in the English language since 1923, and since the producers actually made a real effort to keep close to the original story of the man who ACTUALLY WROTE THE ORIGINAL NOVEL,

That has nothing to do with the quality of the Watchmen movie which stuck me as mediocre at best. What's the point of judging something on things other than it's own merits?

Watchmen tried (and failed) to stay true to it's source material. TDK too the much wiser route of not basing it self on much of anything and putting together a very good piece of cinematography.

Originally posted by Dreampanther
I think I might not be the only one blinded by some moron's inabilty to control his lifestyle, resulting in his death.

In the words of the immortal Bill Hicks - "Hey, another moron is dead - I feel like dancing!" Why should I pity an idiot who abuses drugs and dies from it? Simply pathetic...

Who cares if he's dead, though? Ledger played a brilliant Joker.

Originally posted by Dreampanther
I love the Dark Knight graphic novels - they are still two of my favourite stories ever told and two of my favourite graphic novels in my collection- and I think Frank Miller is an absolute genius - but the film was completely unbalanced, with no effort made to recreate the Batman that Frank Miller envisioned.

So you're outright ignoring the movie itself when you judge the quality of the movie? That's crazy.

Originally posted by Dreampanther
So, if all you can remember about Watchmen is that there was a giant blue wang - do you suppose it is possible that YOU are the one with the homo-erotic fascination...?

Possibly except that I have no real sex drive to begin with. I was simply trying to come up with a lighthearted reason that you might judge the Watchmen movie (which is what we're actually talking about) as being a better movie (see that word again) than the Dark Knight movie (third time).

Although you're welcome to your opinion the reasoning you gave is terribly flawed at best.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos

So you're outright ignoring the movie itself when you judge the quality of the movie? That's crazy.

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Umm, no - I said the film was completely unbalanced - how is that ignoring the movie? Please...

Oh, and thank you, THANK YOU for your permission to have my own opinion... 🙄

Watchmen was the better movie. TDK was vastly overated, it was only on par with Batman begins.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
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You were hypnotized by the giant blue wang weren't you?

If his appendage was your idea of "giant" then I think you're giving a lot about yourself away...

Originally posted by jaden101
If his appendage was your idea of "giant" then I think you're giving a lot about yourself away...

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