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(07/18/08 2:13 PM) |
Here's the cover of this week's (7.25) issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY the special Comic Con preview issue
FWIU besides the Watchman article there are lots of film preview/poster coverage re: Trek and other genre projects here as well. |
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(07/19/08 4:02 AM) |
Saw the Watchmen preview before Dark Knight. I've never read the graphic novel, but a lot of folks in the audience were pretty excited. The guy next to us
was literally on the edge of his seat with his head in his hands, transfixed, and another person a few rows away shouted, "it's the f***ing
Watchmen!" A girl in the row in front of us said we should all read the comic.
"The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"
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(07/19/08 11:21 AM) |
Looks great - but if they don't also have the Middle-Aged, "We're Gettin' Too Old For This S--t" versions of the characters, they missed
the point...
Best, -Craig W. |
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Jeffrey Allen Rydell |
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(07/19/08 12:37 PM) |
Wich2 wrote:They do, of course.
- Jeff
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(07/19/08 12:49 PM) |
Gladahearit!
I guess they're just featuring the Young & Hot versions more in the pre-pub... (Hollywood's burnt me too many times to be granting it any automatic "of course.") |
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riotengine |
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(07/19/08 2:04 PM) |
Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: I can't wait for the inevitable disavowal by Alan Moore.
GREG ESPINOZA
I made it possible for you to come here! I welcomed you to this Earth, you made it a charnel house! |
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(07/21/08 7:02 AM) |
I can't wait for the inevitable disavowal by Alan Moore.At least Dave Gibbons seems to be enjoying the ride so far. The preview did look intriguing. I still wonder how they'll fit it all in -- and I guess they won't, given that the pirate-comic section is getting its own release on DVD. |
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Dr Acula |
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(07/21/08 9:36 AM) |
From AICN:
Hey Harry, |
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(07/21/08 12:19 PM) |
And now, the inevitable... http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213004,00.html
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chris schillig |
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(07/21/08 2:07 PM) |
That wasn't as bad as I thought. The interviewer got around to other topics quickly enough. I wonder what it's like to know that one of your ideas is
playing in multiplexes around the world and you don't intend to even take a peek. Wouldn't you be tempted to duck into one and watch it? Does Moore
refuse the money from movie adaptations, too? If so, does this mean Dave Gibbons gets Moore's share?
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Dr Acula |
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(07/21/08 3:37 PM) |
chris schillig wrote: Yes, at least now he does (I think he took the normal nominal fee for having written From Hell, but I'm not sure of the rest). Dave Gibbons gets Alan
Moore's share for Watchmen.
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(07/21/08 6:12 PM) |
FROM HELL and LOEG were "creator-owned" works which Moore and the respective artists actively chose to sell to a film producer (and said deal is
probably the main source of his hostility towards Hollywood, as things worked out very badly). WATCHMEN, like V FOR VENDETTA, are owned by Warners because they
were published by DC Comics- which, as he notes in the linked article, doesn't exactly go out of it's way to give him his fair share at the best of
times. (As a side note: it was nice to see Alan slap down Frank Miller's "300" in the piece- maybe being criticized by someone he respects will
get Miller to take a serious look at how much his writing has declined over the years. Then again, maybe Miller's spending today trying to claim credit for
THE DARK KNIGHT's success...)
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(07/21/08 6:17 PM) |
drmedula wrote: I have to agree with this - to make a film that was as anti-gay as that considering historical Spartan mores was stupid, and it weakened 300 for me.
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(07/21/08 6:31 PM) |
Dr Acula wrote:Apparently anti-gay - AND homo-erotic! 300 is one addled, confused little movie.
- Jeff
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(07/21/08 11:25 PM) |
I once considered 300, the comic, as the last gasp of the "old" Frank Miller, whose work I revered. Now I see it also as the first breath of the
"new" Frank Miller, whose work I dislike. This has nothing to do with the mainstream success he's achieved in Hollywood, and everything to do
with the across-the-board dumbing down of his writing and art. ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN is an atrocity, and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS AGAIN wasn't much
better.
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(07/22/08 12:01 AM) |
I tend to think of Miller's first, less successful foray into Hollywood (writing ROBOCOP 2 and 3) as his turning point; I think he picked up some real bad
habits there. The very first SIN CITY story- the Marv story- was, for me, his last really successful comic (his artwork was newly invigorated, and the dumbness
of the "plot" was excusable because it was being seen through the eyes of a not-very smart character). But these days? I honestly can't tell if
he's delibrately pandering to his audience...or if he really thinks this stuff is good. Either way, DARK KNIGHT 2 was the end of the line for me- the only
comic I ever tore up and threw away. Haven't read him since, and I doubt I ever will...
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JimPV |
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(07/22/08 12:09 AM) |
Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote:
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Omega Man |
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(07/22/08 4:42 AM) |
Loved the graphic novel, which I heven't revisited for years. (Time to redress that, I believe.)
Hmmm... Anyone else think that the costumed Comedian looks just like Commander USA, the schlock flick host on USA Network back in the '80s? |
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Omega Man |
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(07/22/08 4:48 AM) |
JimPV wrote:In the movie, one of the Spartans (Leonidis, I think) makes a sneering comment about the weak "boy lovers" of the other Greek city-states. Which is stupid, because (1) the Spartans had no problem with homosexuality, and (2) the movie makes no mention that I can recall of the resounding Greek naval victory -- in which the Spartans did not participate -- that made the Spartans' defensive stand against the Persians possible in the first place. Without that naval victory the Persian fleet would've landed an army behind the Spartans, who would've been instantly overwhelmed (attacked from front and rear). |
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Jeffrey Allen Rydell |
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(07/22/08 12:44 PM) |
Omega Man wrote:Whoa! Holy cats!
- Jeff
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