When I heard Damon Lindelof (Lost, Prometheus, Star Trek: Into Darkness) was tackling Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen I wasn’t too optimistic. And my hesitancy–on the surface–was justified because Into Darkness ranked among one of the most irritating movies of 2013 while Prometheus (2012) may have looked spectacular, its story was underwhelming and for […]
Damon Lindelof’s interpretation–truth be told I’m not at all sure what to call it–of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is a pretty interesting bird. And as much flack as Lindelof gets for Star Trek: Into Darkness and Prometheus (relatively little of which was actually deserved) you can’t say that the man is afraid to […]
I’m assuming that this is the last trailer for HBO’s upcoming Watchmen series (especially when it premieres this year) but I’m liking what I’ve seen thus far. And while that’s been damn little at this point, it at least looks like it’s striking new territory, as opposed to just repeating what Alan Moore did with […]
Studios executives sometimes seem as if they do things to deliberately alienate the audience (coincidentally, the very same people that they expect to pay to see their movies). For instance, Alan Moore, as the writer of “Watchmen,” quite possibly the most acclaimed comic ever, was never keen that his projects be adapted for feature films. […]
It’s pretty well established by anyone who has any sense of what good comic book art is like that Rob Liefeld isn’t a very good artist (which is why his success has always mystified me, and goes a long way towards proving that it’s not what you know, but who) despite his success. Though what […]
Sometimes, when novels and comics are adapted into movies, filmmakers take liberties with one aspect or another of the production, in an effort to create something that doesn’t alienate fans or casual viewers. Sometimes these changes are necessary for numerous reasons, such as: a particular novel may be too long, and scenes may require cutting […]
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