Favorite Movie Every Year I've Been Alive

[Dave Gray]

The Hobbit was my favorite book from the series but they butchered the movie

I read the Hobbit with my daughter a little over a year ago and it's just not for me.  His style is too verbose.  He talks about moss for two pages.  I guess some people are in to that and I'm just not one of them.  I like the concepts and the story, but it's just too slow going.

[Spider-Dan]

I've never read the graphic novel, but a lot of people said that the Watchmen movie was very close to the original source.

[Dave Gray]

I've never read the graphic novel, but a lot of people said that the Watchmen movie was very close to the original source.

They change one pretty major event that ends the film.  It's significant and huge, but it might have seemed too far out of left field for audiences to buy.  Now, I think they could handle it, since we've seen so much weird superhero shit, but at the time, it may have been WTF.

When people say that Watchmen is close to the original source, it's really more about the layout and order of the scenes, the framing.  They literally use the graphic novel as a storyboard.  And with Zack Snyder's speed-ramp style, the action often slows down and "locks" on the iconic comic frames.   It was cool, for sure.








I will spoil the comic vs. movie thing if you want me to.

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They change one pretty major event that ends the film.  It's significant and huge, but it might have seemed too far out of left field for audiences to buy.  Now, I think they could handle it, since we've seen so much weird superhero shit, but at the time, it may have been WTF.

When people say that Watchmen is close to the original source, it's really more about the layout and order of the scenes, the framing.  They literally use the graphic novel as a storyboard.  And with Zack Snyder's speed-ramp style, the action often slows down and "locks" on the iconic comic frames.   It was cool, for sure.








I will spoil the comic vs. movie thing if you want me to.

When they had the Watchmen series that took place after the movie, I noticed they played off the graphic novels ending.

[Dave Gray]

When they had the Watchmen series that took place after the movie, I noticed they played off the graphic novels ending.

Yeah, that show was pretty superb.

But the did assume the graphic novel ending, which is kinda crazy and out there.  In hindsight, I wish the movie had done it, as well.  The movie wasn't a critical success even with the change to make it more palatable, anyway.