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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1321 Joined: 13 Jan 2009     | |
BANNED  Posts: 2340 Joined: 27 May 2008   | 16, bored and was given to me by a comics fan. User was banned for: [NEW SCREENIES]Prototype [HOLY SHIT]. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1842 Joined: 13 Jan 2009    | Never read it but my friend did, And I can't wait for the movie Big Glowing Blue Dick! |
Muckraker  Posts: 244 Joined: 2 Aug 2008    | I'm 18, finished last summer. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3639 Joined: 3 Apr 2008     | read it on christmas day... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3412 Joined: 6 Nov 2008   | 14 when I got it. Movie's going to rock. What gets me going is people making comments trying to sound like they know Watchmen but don't, like when they're trying to discuss what powers they all have. |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 3 Dec 2008   | 18 now, read it last year. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1321 Joined: 13 Jan 2009 | We will pray together... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2354 Joined: 14 Sep 2007   | 15, I read it last year. And may I ask what sort of discussion is expected to come from this thread? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1554 Joined: 10 Sep 2008   | Read it a couple months ago, I like to know the source material before I see a movie adaption. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1079 Joined: 23 Dec 2008   | Read it a couple of months ago, me and 2 of my friends are going to see it on launch day, and probably be very pissed off. 3.6.09 |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1643 Joined: 26 Nov 2008    | 19; bought it last year after seeing the trailer for the movie in The Dark Knight. I left the theatre, walked straight across the street and bought it ignoring all the Batman graphic novels they had out. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2205 Joined: 4 Jan 2009   | 14 read it two months ago. Can't wait for the movie |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1061 Joined: 23 Dec 2008  | 17. Heard something about it, bought it, read it, Loved it! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2315 Joined: 5 Nov 2008   | I am 18, I read it last December. I love it but I have no interest in the movie because I am skeptical about Hollywood's ability to convey such a story without reducing it to a collection of hackneyed stereotypes. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 209 Joined: 26 Mar 2008   | I read it 10 years ago when I was 16. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1643 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 | I've been following the movie production, and really other than them changing the ending (something that I'm not exactly up in arms about, if you read the directors reasoning it makes great sense) it looks near perfect. Even the casting. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1098 Joined: 31 Mar 2008     | I was 16 I think. Escher, you do know Alan Moore meant for Rorschach to be unlikeable character because Moore disagreed with The Question's/Ann Ryand's philosophy right?
I think it looks like Watchmen if were drawn by Rob Liefeld. I thought the movie would best shot on DV, either using a hand held camera or a basic tripod. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1061 Joined: 23 Dec 2008 |
he may be unlikable but in the end he is the closest thing to a hero the book presents. Imagine, of all the people to realise the value of human life it was a madman |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1098 Joined: 31 Mar 2008 | He also
Spoiler He also tried to bring about Armageddon which would have killed even more innocent people. Once everyone had already been killed, any other path would lead to even more deaths and would not help the original people killed. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2354 Joined: 14 Sep 2007 |
That was a pretty sweet trailer, yes. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1643 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 |
I was asked to see TDK again and wasn't sold on it until I remembered I could see the trailer again. Yes... I liked the song choice and imagery THAT much. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 218 Joined: 11 Aug 2008   | 16 read it a couple of months ago after I watched the trailer. Please don't mess it up. This will make a great movie if they do it right. The problem is it's more about character development than block buster action scenes. And with the 300 director working on it that worries me some what. Its not like 300 had a lot of story to it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1744 Joined: 21 Aug 2008   | I first read it when I was 12, when I received it with a bunch of other comics from a family friend. At the time, I was just getting into the world of comics and had no concept of subtlety, overreaching themes or even decent narrative. I read it in it's entirety but did not enjoy it because the artwork wasn't very outlandish (I was a big Todd McFarlane fan) and "nobody had superpowers except the blue guy." Inside of a week, I had put it aside in favor of a stack of War Machine back-issues. Last year, I reread it along with V for Vendetta at the request of my friend, who insisted I was missing out. How right he was. By then, I was able to understand the nuances of the story, and the subtle beauty of the art. Rorschach's quiet intensity and troubled past were now compelling, Nite Owl II's sexual frustration and bout with inadequacy as exciting as any War Machine book. To this day, Ozymandias remains one of my all time favorite villains, if he could indeed be called such. So that's my story. Didn't mean to ramble. Here's hoping the movie doesn't suck, eh? Already starting to nitpick, though. In the latest trailer, Rorschach refers to the Mask Killer targeting members of "The Watchmen." I'm pretty sure the name is supposed to be "The Crimebusters." |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 389 Joined: 24 Aug 2008  | I got hold of a pre-natal copy, read it as soon as my fingers had seperated. Didn't appreciate the artwork as much as I do now, it really is awfully dark in a womb. |
Muckraker  Posts: 282 Joined: 18 Oct 2008  | I read it when I was around 14 |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1297 Joined: 20 Nov 2008  | my friend got the collection for christmas a few years ago, i read it straight through in a single sitting. i must have been in my late teens or early twenties. |
Muckraker  Posts: 256 Joined: 10 Jan 2009  | 17, finished... *God time has been a horrible thing for me recently..* last month sometime? It was okay. Some nice lines. Some good characters. Not enough action for my tastes though. |
Paperboy  Posts: 46 Joined: 13 Jan 2009   | Got it after I saw the epic trailer when I went to see The Dark Knight. Fox can eat all the dicks. Anybody who has followed the production of this movie knows what I'm talking about. EDIT: Read the whole thing in 3 sittings over the course of 2 days. |
Paperboy  Posts: 32 Joined: 14 Jan 2009   | I first read it when I was 10. It was the first graphic novel that actually interested me. Rorschach is easily my favourite character from a comic/graphic novel EVER. I can't wait for the movie. I don't like Ozymandias' new costume, it seems to defeat the 'godly' style he went for, but otherwise I can't complain. The new Nite-Owl suit is awesome, Rorschach's design is perfect and so is Dr. Manhatten's. I can't wait to see what they do with the alien amongst other things. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1061 Joined: 23 Dec 2008 |
the alien won't be making an appearance. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 62 Joined: 5 Sep 2008   | I read it when I was 14. But I refuse to watch the movie for two reasons: 1.) Its directed by the same guy who directed "300." And I wouldn't be surprised if the guy just glazed with the same gaudy and ostentatious slow-motion effects and make the audience completely forget what the original comic book was trying to say. 2.) As a genuine fan of comics, I will refuse to watch the movie out of resepct to the source material's writer. I'm not exactly sure how many people know this, but Alan Moore was apocalyptically enraged when his baby was going to get the Hollywood treatment, and he's on my short list of top graphic novel writers (others include Pat Mills, Jean Van Hamme, Pierre Christin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Garth Ennis. Read the stuff written by these guys, you'll be blown away). |
Paperboy Posts: 46 Joined: 13 Jan 2009 |
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Then how does Veidt kill off half of New York? Nukes? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1061 Joined: 23 Dec 2008 |
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER If what I have read is correct, Veidt creates a machine that mimics the powers of Dr Manhattan and uses it to destroy New York, thus making Manhattan the third party and giving him another reason to leave Earth. |
On the Record  Posts: 5967 Joined: 7 Feb 2008   | Read it when I was 18 on a day off from my summer job, walked for 3 hours to the best comic shop in the city to buy it. |
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How old were you when you read Watchmen and when?
I'm 13, finished it about a week ago.