NB the actual Watchmen movie is apparently going to be directed by Paul Greengrass instead of Aronofsky now, see here
the most important part of this is still the fact that sky captain has a rorschach tattoo.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)
(How dare all you good-looking slim men with girlfriends enjoy comics! Out, out!)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)
I'd have to agree. Two questions in particular:
1) Period piece or 'updated'?
2) What gets pruned from the story first?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)
It doesn't count if they are inthe comic.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)
The Minutemen, probably.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)
Pretty much, nearly everyone's mentioned that if they know both. And I really don't mind, it was a very clever use of the basic idea.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Jude Law would be an excellent Ozymandias, I think. Was that giant Watchmen casting thread on ILE or ILC? Or both?
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
x-post I'm guessing ILC, cuz I sure don't remember having read that thread.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't think they should/could get rid of the whole newstand angle. I mean, the scene right before the monster is teleported into NYC, when everyone tries to stop the lesbian couple from fighting is perhaps the most crucial moment of the comic. It's like Moore saying he hasn't gone from a left-wing anarchist to a total cynic yet.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)
I actually enjoyed LOEG, though I've never read the comic. The jokes were so consistently weak that it didn't bother me, since I never was disappointed, and the characters were resonant enough as archetypes that I could imagine being inspired to create my own stories for them if I was a kid. I'd be curious if some brainy kids really dug it.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)
well you aren't missing much. the first story was alright, I gave up on the second when Moore inflicted a really bad sex scene on me.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)
If I had to write a Watchmen strip, I'd throw away everything except that a retired hero Ozymandias is trying to create a utopia and Rorshach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre and Dr. Manhattahn get together again after the death of the Comedian. We see some of their specific flashbacks (Manhattan/Comedian in Vietnam, the riots, etc), but everything involving the Minutemen is gone (including all the Silk Spectres/Comedian fatherhood stuff).
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
SCRIPT. I do need to spell-check.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
rorschach also has to be kept as compelling as he is in the comic, which will be tough since masking works almost completely opposite in print as it does on film. in the comic rorschach can have an ugly face but his mask makes him into Everyman - in a film this effect will be reversed to an extent because his FACE will have to be something we like and his MASK will make it harder to empathize with him.
the real character interaction going on in Watchmen is between Rorschach, Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan, and rorschach is who you're supposed to pull for (blah blah moral relativism has two faces blah blah) - so casting him and handling his screen time is tricky, but so are all the scenes with Dr. Manhattan and Silk Spectre, how the hell do you explain why dr. manhattan chooses his course of action without tranquilizing the audience smack in the middle of the movie?
gah
I hope there's not a lot of time-shifting in the filmthat's one thing that really helped X-Men and Spiderman not suck balls
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)
Though Nicholas Cage as Rorschach might work.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Custos you are the biggest fucking idiot that ever breathed. Your brain is a dessicated roll of amoeba-ridden horse dung. A retarded fruit fly on life support is capable of more productive mental activity than you will ever be.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)
If Nick Cage is anywhere near this movie (which he shouldn't be) (I don't even want him within 500 yards of the set) (how about shoving his ass in a bomb shelter with some beans & Zima?), he'd be the Comedian.
My suggestions here (Fantasy Film Casting -- Watchmen) are meh. Paul Giamatti as Nite Owl, though, would be the stuff. And then you get Thomas Haden Church as Ozy, and it's Sideways II!
(Tom, if you could compare me to a single-celled organism, that'd be great, thanks.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Rorshach = Mary-Kate AND Ashley Olsen!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Archie Bunker = ComedianMeathead = Nite OwlGloria = Silk SpectreGeorge Jefferson = RorshachMaude Findlay = Ozymandiasand J.J. Evans as "Dynomite!" Dr. Manhattan
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)
HEY, evvaaaaaaBUDDY!
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
PHILIP J. FRY"Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."
ZOIDBERG"Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."
BENDER"I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end."
PHILIP J. FRY"Because there is good and evil and evil must be punished. Even in the face of armageddon I will not compromise on this."
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
I am either offended or amazed. Take guesses or something. Also, apparently Nite Owl kills Ozymandias at the end. And he and Spectre the 2nd have a kid in the epilogue.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)
Daisy and Marsha could be SS 1 and 2.
or maybe Bilbo (Bill Bailey) as The Comedian and Mike as Night Owl.
leaving Brian as, er, Ozymandias...
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Frank Swedehead, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)
(It was a joke aimed at anyone who remembered Cage and his "I wanna be Superman" controversy....and thought that would be a good idea.)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)
(thank you)
― J{_}d3 L@w, Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
* = Note, I like Jude Law, I just don't think he fits this part. Too wet behind the ears. Not "Pharoah Ramses" enough for my taste.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 25 November 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Frank Swedehead, Friday, 26 November 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Franz Swededehead, Friday, 26 November 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 26 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)