Comments on: Wil Wheaton Brings Hope To Watchmen Fans http://www.jeffisageek.net/blog/2009/02/19/wil-wheaton-brings-hope-to-watchmen-fans/ Geek Entertainment Teknologist Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Brad Brooks http://www.jeffisageek.net/blog/2009/02/19/wil-wheaton-brings-hope-to-watchmen-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-4351 Brad Brooks Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:55:22 +0000 http://www.jeffisageek.net/blog/?p=1625#comment-4351 I'm probably going to make myself unpopular here, but in my opinion, questioning whether or not the movie is good kind of misses the point. Watchmen is a comic about comics. It's about the history of comics, the way comics work, the very essence of the medium. There are sequences in the book that could never work in any other medium (the interweaving of the Black Freighter sequences to the main plot, the symmetrical nature of the sixth chapter, the interplay between the story and the art etc), and that's what makes the book so great, even though the actual plot is not one of Moore's greatest.<br><br>I'm happy that Dave Gibbons stands to become a rich man from the film, as he's a lovely guy and a consummate cartoonist, but my feelings towards this movie are still the same: Why bother making it? Why not just read the book again? I'm probably going to make myself unpopular here, but in my opinion, questioning whether or not the movie is good kind of misses the point. Watchmen is a comic about comics. It's about the history of comics, the way comics work, the very essence of the medium. There are sequences in the book that could never work in any other medium (the interweaving of the Black Freighter sequences to the main plot, the symmetrical nature of the sixth chapter, the interplay between the story and the art etc), and that's what makes the book so great, even though the actual plot is not one of Moore's greatest.

I'm happy that Dave Gibbons stands to become a rich man from the film, as he's a lovely guy and a consummate cartoonist, but my feelings towards this movie are still the same: Why bother making it? Why not just read the book again?

]]> By: Brad Brooks http://www.jeffisageek.net/blog/2009/02/19/wil-wheaton-brings-hope-to-watchmen-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-993 Brad Brooks Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:55:22 +0000 http://www.jeffisageek.net/blog/?p=1625#comment-993 I'm probably going to make myself unpopular here, but in my opinion, questioning whether or not the movie is good kind of misses the point. Watchmen is a comic about comics. It's about the history of comics, the way comics work, the very essence of the medium. There are sequences in the book that could never work in any other medium (the interweaving of the Black Freighter sequences to the main plot, the symmetrical nature of the sixth chapter, the interplay between the story and the art etc), and that's what makes the book so great, even though the actual plot is not one of Moore's greatest.<br><br>I'm happy that Dave Gibbons stands to become a rich man from the film, as he's a lovely guy and a consummate cartoonist, but my feelings towards this movie are still the same: Why bother making it? Why not just read the book again? I'm probably going to make myself unpopular here, but in my opinion, questioning whether or not the movie is good kind of misses the point. Watchmen is a comic about comics. It's about the history of comics, the way comics work, the very essence of the medium. There are sequences in the book that could never work in any other medium (the interweaving of the Black Freighter sequences to the main plot, the symmetrical nature of the sixth chapter, the interplay between the story and the art etc), and that's what makes the book so great, even though the actual plot is not one of Moore's greatest.

I'm happy that Dave Gibbons stands to become a rich man from the film, as he's a lovely guy and a consummate cartoonist, but my feelings towards this movie are still the same: Why bother making it? Why not just read the book again?

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