And I didn't like it one bit. I don't want to give anything away, but if you're really a fan of the book (and didn't just read it to say you did at the last second), it was one disappointing movie. Sure it *looked* like the Watchmen a bit, but the script stripped the story of all of it's meaning, boiling down a serious psycological examination/mystery novel into some action movie about nuclear war (it's stressed much more than in the novel, coming up in all conversations). It added a lot of pointless super-graphic violence too; and the book had barely any! For instance in the book Rorshach sets a man's house on fire...in the movie, he chops his head open with an axe. In the book a man gets his throat cut, in the movie, his arms are cut off with an industrial-grade saw. WTF. Really, the only good part is the beginning; and the opening credits *are* beautiful and the period music was good....but that's about it.


Basically, what I'm saying is: it was *Dumbed Down.* And people who didn't understand the book can't tell the difference [and I'm not saying it about people who said it was "okay"].

UPDATE: Dogpile on the Fans!
Not in my comments, guys, but everywhere else I've seen. All of a sudden all nay-sayers and fans of the source material are "wrong" for disliking it. Everyone I say I didn't like it to predicts my complaints are going to be "they didn't film the whole book, wah wah waahhh " which isn't my problem at all! As someone who wants to work in film someday (and usually thinks realistically), I knew that a lot would be cut. In fact, I think what they did cut was fine, they made good choices---it's what they included and changed and all of the X-treme stuff they added that upset me.

Comments on sites I go to are all of a sudden hating on fans of the book dismissing their opinions as "sentimental attachments to the source material", critizing them as "nitpicky"---oh, and my favorite---"you wouldn't have been happy no matter how it turned out!" That last one pisses me off especially, because it's such a narrow stereotypical view of comic book fans as the permanent malcontents [thanks a lot Comic Book Guy ]. Heck, I love The Dark Knight and the Tim Burton Batmans, which most people don't! I wasn't bothered when stuff was changed in Spiderman and I liked the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie even though it was way off of the book [and Hitchiker's has been my fave book much longer; and *that's* an unfilmable book]! If I wouldn't have been happy either way, I wouldn't have gotten so excited about the trailers and I wouldn't have seen it opening day while trying to ignore every problem I had with it while watching it.

Look, there are reasons why people love this book so much. It's not just "another silly comic book." It's widely recognized as a great peice of modern fiction, even by people who don't read comics.

It's insane how all of a sudden this movie is getting defended by the people who never touched the book, don't read (or give a crap) comic books at all or just read it this week, to say they read it. The worst part is, they seem to be proud of it, like they're ennjoying the movie the "right way" and that we're just being nerdy jerks. And I'm outnumbered. XI

Most of my problems with it are said here in the funny (well mostly beginning and end in *this* one ) Spill.com audio review. (I can't link it because it makes a smilie and breaks up) They agree and disagree with different points, but most of what they say I agree with. Also, that site's pretty awesome, so you guys should check it out.


............anyway

Anyway, that's pretty much it. In other news, my scanner's still broke so pictures are going to be rather scarce here. But I will try to scan on sunday! I know I have a couple of requests to finish (you know who you are, and I'm sorry), that I'll try to have done by then.

In good news, I just finished a 24 page comic that may be going up here after inking/clean-up! It's a secret for now, because I don't want to get people *too* exctited too early.