just made my friends put 'fight club' on, as i had been reading about it in here, its on tape!
like VCR lmao! we had to rig up the oldest tape player ever, just so i could watch fight club. but yeah so far so good :D

^I hope you're not pausing it to post in here!

I thought the Watchmen brilliant. I consider it the best comic book to film adaption I've ever seen and most of the people I know who have seen it have similar thoughts about it. I had read Alan Moore's cartoon before I saw the movie and I think that made it better. I think some people, not knowing the story from before, were not prepared for what kind of movie it actually is.

Let's just say it's not a superhero movie. There's only one truly heroic act in it (people saved from burning building) and it has a some seconds time on the screen in a 2.5+ hours movie.

Eh, I haven't read the comic but I thought the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie was incredibly awful.

I can't blame Moore though, I'm sure the comic is great, and he refuses to be associated with any of the movies based on his work, including The Watchmen.

Thing is, some things work in one kind of media and they don't work so well in another, comics take place in their own crazy universe and trying to translate that to film is pretty challenging. There have been some great comic book movies lately but it took some super talented directors like Raimi, Del Toro, Nolan and Singer to pull it off.

Video game projects never attract talented directors so that's one reason they fail. Plus, while the storylines for Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil might have been deep and complex by video game standards, they weren't given enough substance to really work as movies.

Comics have a LOT of plot though, and sometimes the challenge is making a movie that's faithful to the comic without being too complicated for casual viewers.

^ the only adaptation of a comic that I liked is Sin City. but The watchmen got incredibly good reviews when it got released, but still haven't watched it.

You definitely have to! I personally loved it and it has to be one of my favorite films of 2009.

I don't think that's a big problem with Watchmen actually. I think it is faithful and a successfull adaptation of the comic. When people don't like it, I assume that in most of the cases, they wouldn't have liked the comic book either.

I saw Nine a few days ago and was not impressed. It had a great plot to begin with, but I suppose keeping a storyline like that simple enough for children to understand as well is quite a task. Oddly enough, last night I had dreams about a society run by machines.

hmm, I woke up into a society run by machines.

Can we please establish that the use of "the" is extraneous. Both the movie and comic are titled "Watchmen". For some reason incorrect addition of "the" to movies and bands really annoys me.

As for whether or not Watchmen was good or not, and a true adaption of the comic etc ... if it weren't for the soundtrack and Rorschach I probably would've turned it off. It took two attempts to read the comic because it's just so bland. "Reasonable", interesting characters included: The Comedian, Joker, Sally Jupiter and (sometimes) Silk Spectre. The rest were all too synthetic and shockingly lacking in depth to find their screen/page time enjoyable in the slightest. Dan/Silk/John triangle was about as enjoyable and believable as the latest Harry Potter movie (which watched like a nauseating romcom with appalling actors who aren't even used to being terrible romcom actors), John's monologues are a bombastic and tedious rants that go on ad verbatim until you have to put the book down otherwise you'll end up with drool smudging the next morning from where you've fallen asleep on it. The entire theme and message is just so damn ridiculous it loses relevance to modern times and events to the extent that you wonder why the hell you bothered spending so long reading to the end. P.S. where the FUCK was my Goliathic squid?! So, good port bad movie, bad comic. If it'd been set in the same universe but written about anything but the climatic demise, and probably focussed more on Rorschach and the other characters given a level of depth it could've been brilliant. Well done Moore, you verbose git.

Although in Moore's favour, V for Vendetta is a simply superb read. It gives the characters enough depth to believe their motivations, the events are fantastical enough to make the story interesting and keep the plot pacey and the events maintain enough grounding in reality and peoples subconscious fears ever since the rise of totalitarianism that it had (and quite possibly always will have) a deep moral for modern times. As a port from comic the movie was abysmal and messed too much with events and chronology to call it true-to-comic. However it's still a thoroughly enjoyable movie in it's own rights and with the comic has remained steadily amongst my favourites for some time.

On the general subject of comic/movie couplings, I'm not sure if Batman will count as the movies aren't based on specific single graphic novels but the majority of them will hold a place in my heart (sorry, George, but you've never been brooding, deranged and reckless). Wanted was well ... if you read the graphic novel after having watched the movie you'll cry for lost potential, and if you watch the movie after having read the novel you'll want to throw your TV out the window. Hollywood bollocks. Sin City was a movie I greatly enjoyed and was beautifully and thoughtfully directed with an incredible use of palette and colours. Haven't read the comic unfortunately.