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changeyourstars8So I finally found Watchmen, the all-twelve-issues-in-one-book edition, and ohmigod. I am currently squeaking like crazy over it.
Under the cut will be random babbling-- don't necessarily expect coherency, but expect spoilers. ;-)
The artwork was gorgeous-- the drawing of Dr. Manhattan when he's getting ready to leave Earth and he looks up nearly made me cry, there's just so much in his expression there; and the newsstand owner and the comics reader embracing each other just before the blast hits . . . oh man-- and the plot is all well and good (and how much do I love the whole 'plot within a plot' of the Tales of the Black Freighter?) but wow, the characters.
Laurie was kickass; loved her (and her nearly burning down Dan's underground lab messing around with the controls. Hee). Dr. Manhattan. That whole chapter with him jumping back and forth in time and knowing exactly what's coming just gave me chills. Sally. Oh, Sally. I wanted to pull her out of the pages and hug her so bad.
My feelings about them are fairly unconflicted, though, unlike for Eddie. I want to hate him, and god only knows I should. He's an amoral attempted-rapist murderer. And yet at the end of it I don't. I would spontaneously invent teleportation to avoid being in the same room alone with him, but I didn't hate him. It's weird, and I still have a lot of thinking to do on that front. I do know that I'm probably going to be hiding my face in my jacket or something during the would-be rape scene.
That said, I don't know how they're going to fit everything in, and that ending. But from set pictures I've seen so far (and from the eleventy billion times I've watched the trailer), they seem to be doing a great job so far.
Under the cut will be random babbling-- don't necessarily expect coherency, but expect spoilers. ;-)
The artwork was gorgeous-- the drawing of Dr. Manhattan when he's getting ready to leave Earth and he looks up nearly made me cry, there's just so much in his expression there; and the newsstand owner and the comics reader embracing each other just before the blast hits . . . oh man-- and the plot is all well and good (and how much do I love the whole 'plot within a plot' of the Tales of the Black Freighter?) but wow, the characters.
Laurie was kickass; loved her (and her nearly burning down Dan's underground lab messing around with the controls. Hee). Dr. Manhattan. That whole chapter with him jumping back and forth in time and knowing exactly what's coming just gave me chills. Sally. Oh, Sally. I wanted to pull her out of the pages and hug her so bad.
My feelings about them are fairly unconflicted, though, unlike for Eddie. I want to hate him, and god only knows I should. He's an amoral attempted-rapist murderer. And yet at the end of it I don't. I would spontaneously invent teleportation to avoid being in the same room alone with him, but I didn't hate him. It's weird, and I still have a lot of thinking to do on that front. I do know that I'm probably going to be hiding my face in my jacket or something during the would-be rape scene.
That said, I don't know how they're going to fit everything in, and that ending. But from set pictures I've seen so far (and from the eleventy billion times I've watched the trailer), they seem to be doing a great job so far.
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Date: 2008-08-13 09:50 pm (UTC)Zack Snyder has said he's not changing the ending. Wonder how that'll go over with the general public. A superhero movie where the good guys lose? And they thought The Dark Knight was...dark.
I have also watched the trailer eleventy billion times!! It's so sweet.
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Date: 2008-08-13 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 10:15 pm (UTC)Okay, this is hilarious (http://davidguy.brinkster.net/goaste/watchmenscript001.html). Skip to the end.
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Date: 2008-08-13 10:36 pm (UTC)