Ebert on Watchmen

[subplotkudzu]

I haven't seen it yet - I'll be going next week - but I did want to share Roger Ebert's Blog Thoughts on it.

Comments

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Evil Brainmelting Youtube video of Watchmen as Saturday morning cartoon? If not, it's here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w&eurl=http://video.google.com/?tab=mv&feature=player_embedded).

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

So, have you seen the movie, yet?

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

yeds, I have. it falls into the same realm as the Jackson LotR series - it's visually faithful and makes a stab at being thematically faithful (although it fails on several key points), has much spiffier fight scenes and should be cut some slack due to the changes required for the medium. In Watchman's case I agree with Michael Cule that it would have been better as a 6 episode TV mini-series.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I think it was a better adaptation than LotR, but I'm likely biased. I do agree that it isn't flawless, and it would work better as a miniseries, likely of 12 episodes.

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me - I always perfer adaptations to the screen to be done as TV shows/mini-series, because I always want to give things more time.

You might be right about LotR, but must to my shame I have never really internalized that one. I've read it a couple of times and enjoyed it, but Watchmen was a key part of my High School years, so every error in translation (as opposed to just minor edits or changes) was much more grating.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I read LotR for the first time when I was about ten, right after the Bakshi film came out. But, I have an idea how the lack of internalization goes. I never really clicked with the Harry Potter books, so, while a lot of what Jackson did with LotR bugged me (although he also made several improvements in a book-to-film translation), I just didn't care that much about many of the changes made in the HP films.