Comments on: Viral marketing for Watchmen movie in the wild? http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: scrim Pinion http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-97804 scrim Pinion Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/#comment-97804 I won't be watching it, because the comic was so...HUGE: It took place over a long stretch of time, so long that I doubt any movie adaptation could do it justice in one sitting. Two long running features? Maybe. But, if you remove any material, save maybe the meta-narrative stuff like the pirate comics and the news clippings and so-on, I would be worried about the stability of the story itself. Moore isn't my favorite writer, but Watchmen was a brilliant work, from a technical standpoint most especially. It's so carefully written, trying to shorten it for film would blunt its impact considerably. I won’t be watching it, because the comic was so…HUGE: It took place over a long stretch of time, so long that I doubt any movie adaptation could do it justice in one sitting. Two long running features? Maybe.

But, if you remove any material, save maybe the meta-narrative stuff like the pirate comics and the news clippings and so-on, I would be worried about the stability of the story itself. Moore isn’t my favorite writer, but Watchmen was a brilliant work, from a technical standpoint most especially. It’s so carefully written, trying to shorten it for film would blunt its impact considerably.

]]> By: Udy http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-97037 Udy Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:15:47 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/#comment-97037 Dig. I haven't read V For Vendetta but I have read Watchmen. I have seen V For Vendetta, thought it was pretty good. At the end of the day the films are hyped in such a way that they are clearly not actually for fans of the originally materials anyways. Dig.
I haven’t read V For Vendetta but I have read Watchmen.
I have seen V For Vendetta, thought it was pretty good. At the end of the day the films are hyped in such a way that they are clearly not actually for fans of the originally materials anyways.

]]> By: Paul Raven http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-96941 Paul Raven Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:42:02 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/#comment-96941 No worries dude - I always assume you're being generally acerbic rather than directly! ;) Though your response actually matches what Martin's piece is saying, in a way. *I'm* not going to bother watching the film because, as you know, I'm just really not that fussed by cinema as a medium - and being much more of a reader, I find it hard to divorce my conceptions of a story from the format in which I originally consumed it. I'm no great fan-boy of Moore's (though I love his work); it's not a case of worshipping him in particular. It's a case of being unwilling to invest my time and money in a medium that has routinely disappointed or underwhelmed me over the past decade or so, adaptations or otherwise ... I think the point is that, if I *did* go to see it, I wouldn't be ranting on about it being a betrayal of the original, <i>because I'd not have expected anything else</i>. You dig? No worries dude – I always assume you’re being generally acerbic rather than directly! ;)

Though your response actually matches what Martin’s piece is saying, in a way. *I’m* not going to bother watching the film because, as you know, I’m just really not that fussed by cinema as a medium – and being much more of a reader, I find it hard to divorce my conceptions of a story from the format in which I originally consumed it.

I’m no great fan-boy of Moore’s (though I love his work); it’s not a case of worshipping him in particular. It’s a case of being unwilling to invest my time and money in a medium that has routinely disappointed or underwhelmed me over the past decade or so, adaptations or otherwise …

I think the point is that, if I *did* go to see it, I wouldn’t be ranting on about it being a betrayal of the original, because I’d not have expected anything else. You dig?

]]> By: crustypaul http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-96936 crustypaul Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:28:56 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/#comment-96936 Sorry, that may have come out seeming a lot more offensive than it was actually intended, whoops! Sorry, that may have come out seeming a lot more offensive than it was actually intended, whoops!

]]> By: crustypaul http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-96935 crustypaul Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:27:50 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/viral-marketing-for-watchmen-movie-in-the-wild/#comment-96935 Or, a refusal to even watch the film may just indicate an unbearably closed minded and sanctimonious smugness in the secure knowledge that your vision of Watchmen 'as a reader' is far superior and more valid than those pitiful fools who don't worship at the altar of the mighty Mr Moore or, in an appalling lack of self congratulatory fundamentalism, have never even heard of him! And that coming from ME of all people. Seriously, I am of the opinion that V for Vendetta is one of the best books ever written but the film was actually a pretty good film if one can just remove ones head from ones own arse for an hour or so and just watch it as a well made Hollywood movie and nothing more. I wish i'd gone to see it at the cinema as i will be seeingh Watchmen if it ever actually arrives. Just don't get me started on From Hell............... Or, a refusal to even watch the film may just indicate an unbearably closed minded and sanctimonious smugness in the secure knowledge that your vision of Watchmen ‘as a reader’ is far superior and more valid than those pitiful fools who don’t worship at the altar of the mighty Mr Moore or, in an appalling lack of self congratulatory fundamentalism, have never even heard of him! And that coming from ME of all people. Seriously, I am of the opinion that V for Vendetta is one of the best books ever written but the film was actually a pretty good film if one can just remove ones head from ones own arse for an hour or so and just watch it as a well made Hollywood movie and nothing more. I wish i’d gone to see it at the cinema as i will be seeingh Watchmen if it ever actually arrives. Just don’t get me started on From Hell……………

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