It’s about fucking time. :booster:
So whats this about?
HEATHEN.
Watchmen was, and possibly is, the best comic ever written. It was a general statement about the nature of superheroes and even comic-books themselves. Here’s Wiki’s plot summary:
A right-wing extremist vigilante, Rorschach, investigates the murder of the Comedian, another costumed adventurer. This triggers another investigation that causes him to track down and interview his former associates, whom he believes are being targeted by an enemy who is out to eliminate the superheroes. In a world that has been drastically changed (Nixon is still President, the Vietnam War was won by the U.S., etc.) by the superhuman powers of another adventurer, Dr. Manhattan, the team members start to reconsider who they are in the midst of a complex situation that seems to push events even closer to the brink of an impending global disaster.
In the early 1980s DC Comics, who had acquired a number of existing characters from Charlton Comics, commissioned a treatment from Moore for a mini-series about them. The resulting story, recast with new heroes to avoid continuity problems with DC’s mainstream comics, was often hailed as a breakthrough in comic book writing and, along with Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, sparked an interest in comics amongst a wider adult audience than traditionally associated with them.
Damn you, Pierson. I thought Sin made this thread because of the title.8p
I’ve read an issue or two of it, I need to find the collection somewhere, it is very cool.
So…who will watch The Watchmen?
BRICK’D!
Not me.
Not saying that Watchmen wasn’t a good comic, or that it can’t make a good movie. But it’s certainly not to my liking. Too dark. I’m talking everything from rape to murder to betrayal to failure of heroism. In fact, I wonder if producing the movie at a time when the popular Superhero movies are stuff like THE INCREDIBLES is a good idea. But, good luck to them and may Watchmen fans enjoy it.
Woohoo?