The Watchmen is coming!
The Watchmen
For those of you who do not know this about me, I am a Watchmen fanboy. Being a fanboy I am quite fearful of the upcoming film. You see to my kind the Watchmen is the bible of comics, there is nothing you can compare it to, and there will be nothing that can top it in the near future. Saying that and the fact that as far as I am concerned Hollywood can’t get there head out of their behinds long enough to realize how to make the perfect comic movie.
I do have faith though. Watchmen is being directed by Zack Snyder the same guy that gave us the comic adapted 300. Now there are people who did not like the movie 300, and there are people who loved it. I sit somewhere in the middle. As a story it had no where to go, personally I think it was a silly comic to make a movie out of. As a comic movie it was top
300 Graphic Novel Cover
Zack Snyder photo by: Clay Enos
notch, 300 took what was on the comic page and gave it life and action and passion that a comic movie needs.
Another bit of faith I have about the Watchmen movie is the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I see the trailer. I can see the characters coming to life in the bits and pieces of the film they have lets us see. I can tell that they have the look of the film right. Since it is also a rated R film my hope is they have not taken the darkness out of the film.
I have faith and my expectations are very high. For me the movie has to turn out twice as good as 300, Sin City, or the last two Batman movies. I am however expecting a Lord of the Rings brand of commitment from this film crew. I want to come out of the movie in extreme awe at what they have accomplished. I am not looking for perfection in this, they do not have the time or the money to to put all the nooks and cranny’s of the comic into this film. They just have to get the right nooks and cranny’s in. That’s all for now. I will be seeing the movie on the seventh and will be giving all of you my opinion next week.
Peace,
Sean “Sapo” Pisano
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