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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Watch the Watchmen? Don't Know Yet.
Current Mood: CC is listening to:Smile Again--Manhattan Transfer (The Manhattan Transfer) The trailer for the Watchmen movie came out Friday.
Now I know the graphic novel has won awards and a lot of people LOVE the Watchmen, but I read it recently and my impression was, well, it was okay...at best. You know how there are 4 parts to a story: exposition, conflict rising, climax, and resolution? It felt like the first 2 parts took up 7/8 of the story and the last two took up only 1/8. I finished the comic (after 4 hours of reading) and went, "That's it? He could've told the story in MUCH less time than that."
I actually had an inkling of it being a dragging story even as I was reading the first few pages. Then I looked at the cover again. "Oh. It's DC."
I've never been a DC comics fan. I've always leaned towards Marvel, because Marvel comics tend to be gripping even early on in the storytelling.
Plus there's that whole "Marvel does flawed superheroes better" thing, but that's another debate :-).
When I told Steve that I felt the story was so SLOW, he said, "Well yeah, that's how he writes. V for Vendetta was exactly the same way. It takes Alan Moore forever to get the story going."
That's not to say Steve and I didn't like the V for Vendetta movie. We loved it--we even have a movie poster hanging in our hallway. But if a 2-hour movie is able to paint the same picture that a graphic novel took 300 pages to say, then the graphic novel is too long.
Maybe the Watchmen movie will be like that--better than the graphic novel. But right now, after seeing the trailer, I'm not getting the "Oh my GOD I have to see this movie!" reaction the same way I did when I saw the Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four trailers (notice how THOSE movies are all Marvel?).
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