So…

More then a year since last update. Yes, we did not bother with Watchmen film that much. Though we think that all the merchs based on the film just shows how they twisted Watchmen into something “sellable”. Also, making comments over a trailer with cheesy slow-mo is just… meh! Plus, what a heck were/are those motion comics? Are people THAT lazy that they need people to storyteller to them like when they were little child? I guess yes. And don’t forget about how they “modernized” Spectre uniform, that Night Owl is not even fatty, Rorschach does not look like a psycho, and that some of their uniforms just look like those used on Joel Schumacher Batman films…

However, these aren’t the reasons we decided to post.

Some source (a big brazilian entertainment site) said that Watchmen is 90% identical to the comics. They only changed the E N D.

We believe that changing the end is changing 100%. And what happened with “I am not going to change the end” , Zack Snyder? Were you lying? Ironically, our last post was exactly about him saying that.

No changes for the end

So Zack Snyder said to the press that he won’t change Watchmen’s controversial  ending, because changing it would not make any sense, since its impact to the whole story would be lost. He also added that that the film will work as a response to what is happening in the real world.

I have two things to say about it:

1) Not changing the end: Oh really?

I keep imagining why he would and what he could change on it. Seriously, I don’t see any reason for changing endings in any adaptation.

2) A response to what is happening here: URSS becomes Terrorists.

Keep watching!

Resource: Starlog magazine

More than a month; lack of time.

Wow! Almost two months has past and we even haven’t noticed it. That’s how is modern life. A lot of college work and job consuming all your energy, plus other projects more important than this blog plus a desire of not spending so much time in front of the computer during our free time. But we are back. Not with news, not with criticism to the film, not with fanboy flame. This time we are here to complain a bit more about the hollywood adaptation fever.

From time to time we watch heck of good films! Or we read about awesome scripts and plots. We get excited, we get eager. But in the end we get frustrated… Frustrated because we discover that this astonishing film is just another adaptation. And what is the problem of it being one adaptation? Does it make the film worse?  No, it does not. So, why we complain you ask yourself? It is quite simple, visitors.

As we already told you all before, we want to see new things. We don’t want to read “Based on” / “Inspired by”. Why? Because  we believe that is quite a frustration to imagine that no one is capble to write an entire new film. One that isn’t a sequel, or isn’t an adaptation. Is quite frustrating to think that Children of Men, an incredible good and well done film, is based on a book. Simply because you get involved, you really dive into its idea, you wonder and say proudly to yourself “at last a creative film which isn’t an adaptation!” but then you find out that it is.

And you start to wonder more… “Why eight of the ten most watched films on the cinema are adaptations?”. Is it because producers don’t want to take a risk in something without a previously audience?  Or are the writers lacking of  good new ideas?

We are not saying  adaptations cannot exist on the big screen, rather, we are just amused by the amount of these kind of films. And another one coming from the new niche – the comics – is the last thing we want.

Keanu Reeves will no longer play Dr. Manhattan

Long time no post, huh? Lack of feedback, lack of news and mainly, lack of time.

Anyway. We’ll probably have more information over the next weeks because of the San Diego ComicCon. But the website CHUD has divulged an inside information on the casting and that is: Keanu Reeves will no longer play Dr. Manhattan.

The one to be tinted in blue will now be Billy Crudup (from Almost Famous, Big Fish, MI-III). According to the site, Reeves was discarded after asking for more money than Snyder would offer.

Not making a g deal out of it, but as far as interpreting facts goes, this just exposed what kind of film this is : So far no one is in it for the story’s sake, they’re just making another commercial movie. It’s not like those projects where you have some cast and crew sign themselves in because they’re fans (Like The Lord of the Rings). The few people who were interested on the adaptation dropped out. What could this mean?

Reasons: Part 1

Hello! Here are the 2 first reasons why we decided to create this blog. Please, mind any mistake and correct us if possible.  Enjoy!
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Reason 1: It is impossible to adapt

What is the reason? They will never succeed.  Specially in one single film.  And if we get furder, we will see that a perfect transition from one medium to the other would be impossible to be 100% done. However, we believe that a series of films or a short TV series would suit better, since in those cases they could develop what made Watchmen become so good: the characters and their stories. Even though, one small part of what Alan Moore transmited in such wonderful way would be lost – but we understand that it always happens regardless the medium.

Understand that we are not  that anything they would do with Watchmen  would be a complete  rubbish. Not at all! What happens is that you cannot squeeze all the series of stories of this graphic novel into two or three hours. To catch the smallest  fraction from the spirit of it, would be necessary a series of films, like  in  Lord of the Rings series, or would you be satisfied in seeing Toolkien’s trilogy  in one single filme of 3 hours?

About a small TV series, for example, we could get closer to what Moore’s and Gibbons’ works are. And we would be really satisfied with such, because in one series would be possible to develop all characters and their conflicts; their histories.  The focous on action would be left to a  second, third, maybe fourth  plane, something that it is impossible to happen in a “super-hero” film where the climax must be reach quickly, otherwise you will bore  the  audience – specially in today hollywood films, where special effects are becoming more important than “interpretations”, which lead us to the next topic. 

From IMDB:

Terry Gilliam: (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000416/bio)

“Has been off and on to write and direct a movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel “Watchmen.” Gilliam has said he attempted to write an accurate screenplay but it would be “unfilmable”, but he would consider directing it if it were made into 10 or 12-part cable television series.”

Reason 2: Watchmen is not Spider-Man

Spider-Man and Watchmen are comics. Spider-Man does have characters who suffers from conflicts too. Spider-Man has a lot of stories and even though, we have three regular films and which succeed on getting the Spider-Man spirit. Then,  why it would not happen with Watchmen, considering that Spider-Man started a long time ago?

Simply  because they are completely different kinds of comics. While  Spider-Man is focused in one single character and its

conflicts, Watchmen is focused in different characters. Besides, Paker’s dilemmas were developed during the years, basically in a second plane, while their villains and the problem to deal with his secret identity and his alter-ego are what really concerns him. The focus in Spider’s comics are in what happens, in the struggles, in walking through his webs within the buildings – not in what makes Parker be Spider-Man. And we are not talking about “big powers brings big responsibilities.”   And, as it was already told, why Spider-Man has many years of stories, the only way to move it from the comics to the cinema is capturing a minimum  from the  comics. But it works only because the told reasons.

On the other hand, Watchmen, like a book, is a closed story. And in closed stories you have a completed development if characters and plot. There’s no space for “grab the essence and work over it”. You must, at least, have a fidelity with characters and make only small adaptations to the plot so it fits into cinema medium. And be careful. Really. Preferably with the concern of who created it (i.e: Hitchhickers Guide to The Galaxy and Sin City). And Watchmen does not have the approval from Alan Moore. Watchmen is not being writen by or with him. So…

Hey! What about 300? Well, lets say that in 300 the focus are on the battles. And we already heard from non-fanboys that it lacks of the comics spirits “why we are struggling”. Imagine, then, what the same director is about to do with Watchmen. 

Spider-Man, the movie, is that kind which feets into the family entertainment genre, which means you will share with the hero his experiences; when it is an awful situation, you will be sad and will fight until the good part comes, which ends with family and friends gathered tasting the victory and confirming the proverb: “In the end everything will be okay. If things are bad, it means it is not over yet.”

Well, if Watchmen has a proverb it would be: “In the end everything will be okay. If things are bad, it menas that you were probably wrong about things ending okay.” Watchmen is a nihilist, materialist and cynical.

Now follows a description of a small capitalist/mark logic:

-People invest hundreds of million of dollars on films that will make hundreds of millions.

-Films that attracts people do make hundreds of millions of dollars.  

-Films that does not attracts people does not make hundreds of millions of dollars. 

-Many people (most of) does not pay forr nihilist, materialist and cynical films.

Then: a film which costs hundreds of millions of dollars cannot be nihilist, materialist and cynical.

Opening scene

Zack Snyder talked about the opening scene. He said it will be “very intence“, with a character called Comedian who “gets in a fight with a guy that we don’t know who it is, and [the Comedian] gets thrown out a window.” Like the comics. He forgot to say that.

In another webpage, it says they are trying to put things going on as soon  as possible, so they can start shooting soon, specially because many [fanboy comment: wise] directors has turned off this project.

On another note, I’d like to add that we think they are going to make adaptations to the context, so it can fit into nowadays and look more conteporary. For those who never read about or read Watchmen, it was wrote and published when the Cold War was still happening. So many aspects of the paranoia present in the characters world would not make sense at all for today [b]watchers[/b] and possible readers. They are probably going to change that for “terrorism-like”.

And I heard about another cast rumors.

Keep watching.

Time!

Hello everyone!

We are really busy with college right now and we couldn’t update the blog so far. We hope we will be able to do so by the end of this week.

Cheers all!

No big news, reasons to come

As there isn’t  any big news in the last few days, we decided to write the first 4 reasons why was this blog created.

So, keep watching.

First Official Image

Founded after digging.

According to where I found it, it was hidden in 300 trailer. Weird… Rorshach looks okay, but the scenario looks too “green-screen”, in my opinion.

What do you people think about?

Cheers

Watchmen (anti-)fan made poster

Check out this photo I found on the web.

Of course it’s fan (or anti-fan) made, but you can see how it goes: it’s just ridiculous getting hollywood actors to play these parts.

I know the official photos of the film will be a lot more fancy and “cool”, but it’s just make-up on a traggic surface.

Image found on this blog