I just finished reading The Watchmen... SO GOOD. I highly Recommend you read it. Yea its a comic book, so what, it's the best one ever. It's the only graphic novel on Time's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels." My friend said it looked stupid when I showed him I was reading it... but screw him, he's a d bag.
I picked it up when I saw the trailer for the Watchmen movie, which looks badass by the way.I was reading the wikipedia for it (probably helpful if you want to know everything) and the writer, Alan Moore, seems pretty against turning it into a movie, saying, "You can also flip back a few pages relatively easily to see where a certain image connects with a line of dialogue from a few pages ago. But in a film, by the nature of the medium, you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second." I agree with him, you could not pull off what he and Dave Gibbons (the artist) in any other medium.
Moore also said, "there's stuff in there Dave had put in that even I only noticed on the sixth or seventh read"
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I still think the movie is going to be SWEET, but for different reasons than the book was. The directer from 300 is doing it and 300 was so badass, too bad he's not gonna do it all on green screen again...
And heres the song from the trailer by smashing pumpkins, The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning. SO APPROPRIATE, if you've read the comic you know. When you get to the end of the book you'll look back at the cover, like, "damn." lol.
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