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Will you watch these Watchmen?
Ford Prefect:
--- Quote from: carrotosaurus on 10 Mar 2009, 19:50 ---Man, I started writing about the movie and just couldn't stop. If anyone's interested in my long rambling review it's here.
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I just wanted to let you know that I thought your article was well thought out and on target. I have also found that in the days since watching the film the sheen has come off, and while I was overall content with the film, there was room for improvement. I think that the part of the article that resonated most with me was about Veidt. He couldn't have come off as more evil from the get-go unless his laughs all started with the letter M.
lprkn:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 11 Mar 2009, 12:59 ---goddamn education
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I guess I didn't realize it cost them 100 million to make. All the same, I'm glad it was made, if for no other reason than to get people to read the book.
KvP:
Actually I'd predict the readership of the comic to be bumped up modestly at best, even if you remove from the equation all the people who don't like comics or have some other arbitrary / preferencial reason for not reading, all the illiterate people, and all the frat boys. Maybe someone who knows comics history can shine some light on how the popularity of Superman and Batman comics changed as their movies came out? Maybe I'm wrong.
Watchmen is a mystery novel. This isn't a case of the Shining, where the events of the narrative are changed drastically. As has been noted to Zack Snyder's credit, the film is 95% faithful to the book's central narrative. If you've seen the movie then there is no mystery anymore (curiously I'd expect the opposite for person reading the comic - he/she'd probably want to watch the movie just to see how it was realized) Really, all you're missing from the movie are the B and C stories of the Black Freighter and the peripheral "normal" characters' stories. And I don't think just that stuff is going to make most people interested in visiting the comic, no matter how well-woven the elements are in comparison to the movie, which is rather spartan (hurr hurr) and threadbare.
That's not even taking into account the proposed 3 1/2 hour Director's Cut of the film that will make it to DVD. Add that and the only thing the comic has on the film are the peripheral characters, if that.
Really the only way I'd see it happening is if someone watched the movie and loved it so much that they felt compelled to go out and read the novel in spite of all those picked nits. And I can't say I've heard from anyone who hasn't read the novel that really loved the movie.
Johnny C:
The golden ratio for execs is a 3:1 return, all sales counted. If a movie makes budget in box office and then does double its budget in home sales that's considered a success.
EDIT: Also, sales for the graphic novel have already experienced a bump. Like, it's not "maybe it will happen." It already has happened.
carrotosaurus:
--- Quote from: KvP on 11 Mar 2009, 18:50 --- I can't say I've heard from anyone who hasn't read the novel that really loved the movie.
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I have, but to be fair the guy had a huge boner for 300.
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