I would highly recommend reading anything by Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top 10 and the list goes on for ever...) as he is the best writer of comics there has ever been. They've all been made into vastly stupid movies (Watchmen and V aren't too bad actually) but more often than not they have to be dumbed down (V, LOEG) or drastically changed (From Hell the book and From Hell the movie are world's apart).
Watchmen begs the question "What's the point?" as the film is almost identical to the book (apart from the changed ending which I felt was a little bit silly in the book, but at least it worked. The movie's version doesn't). What's the point of making a movie if you're not going to add anything (or bring anything new) to the story. At least with V, they took some very bold moves with exploring terrorism and conspiracy theories.
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Date: 2009-09-23 09:09 pm (UTC)I would highly recommend reading anything by Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top 10 and the list goes on for ever...) as he is the best writer of comics there has ever been. They've all been made into vastly stupid movies (Watchmen and V aren't too bad actually) but more often than not they have to be dumbed down (V, LOEG) or drastically changed (From Hell the book and From Hell the movie are world's apart).
Watchmen begs the question "What's the point?" as the film is almost identical to the book (apart from the changed ending which I felt was a little bit silly in the book, but at least it worked. The movie's version doesn't). What's the point of making a movie if you're not going to add anything (or bring anything new) to the story. At least with V, they took some very bold moves with exploring terrorism and conspiracy theories.