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]

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.