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Ever read WATCHMEN?

since someone started this thread, i reread Watchmen
i remembered thinking it was real good, but its not actually
but then again i was only 15 when i 1st read it
in context, the only thing really important about it now is that it helped to popularize the graphic novel
I found Moore's terrible (& painfully filled with exposition) dialogue to be excruciating to read
and the entire style of it was much too comic booky
unless of course you are an actual comic book geek
 
Well it is meant for comic book geeks, isn't it, satirising the conventions of the super hero genre and such?
 
CaptainWacky said:
Well it is meant for comic book geeks, isn't it, satirising the conventions of the super hero genre and such?
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yeah, i guess so, but i stopped reading comic books in high school
but things like the 'Watchmen' must have served as some kind of 'bridge' between me and my still too dorky friends who still read them then
especially since it made fun of comic book heroes, it does do an excellent job of deconstructing them
but 'Last Action Hero' did it better :mm:
 
Dark Pickle said:
Last Action Hero?

SRSLY?
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aww shit, someone bit, i was a part time nobody at Sony Pictures in 92/93
and i got to read Zak Penn's draft of 'Last Action Hero' before Shane Black rewrote it
and in its original form, Last Action Hero echoed the basic theme of 'Watchmen'
given the end result i find that quite funny and i regret never having made an effort to ask if Zak he had read 'Watchmen' when i had the chance...
 
i just looked up what other scripts Zak has worked on, they include:
X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Elektra, Hulk and The Incredible Hulk
so yeah, its pretty safe to guess that he read Watchmen and other better stuff by Alan Moore
 
huh? i was talking about the Watchmen(in my opinion) infused script he(Zak Penn) wrote that was butchered by the likes of
Shane Black, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even James Cameron lurked in the shadows somewhere
those were dark times at Columbia and Sony Pictures, let me tell you...
 
Trailer's pretty kick ass. What makes it though is the Smashing Pumpkins "The end is the beginning is the end," song, which they've slowed down for the trailer.
 
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