[ SECRET POST #2378 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2378 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

All these comments make me sad.

The reason the movie didn't work is that Watchmen is, on a great number of thematic and stylistic levels, ABOUT COMIC BOOKS. The "ugly" art people complain about is very much part of the point; it's a weirdly mutated form of the traditional 70s-80s house styles at the Big Two. It's as much a considered part of the story as the ironbound nine-panel grid, the pirate material, the name "Nova Express", or the relation of the characters to the old Charlton stable.

Call me pretentious if you want, but in 1986, having a comic book that actually stood up to close reading and intellectual consideration WAS A NEW THING.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

The art is brilliant and perfect for the story it's telling. I love it.

[luxshine]

+10000

There's a reason why people are still writing thesis about Watchmen, and one of the reasons is all what you said.

(Sure, I think that now, half of the people writing said thesis are re-threading what everyone else already said, but that doesn't take away from Watchmen)

Hell, one of the reasons I couldn't watch the movie is that when I saw the opening credits, they were amazingly... modern. And losing that 70s-80s look, even in the film, made it loss a layer of interest for me. Even if Jeffrey Dean Morgan was perfectly cast.