I can't believe they changed "I did it thirty-five minutes ago." That's like the greatest OH SNAP! moment in the history of OH SNAP! moments. It just fell a bit flat in the movie. How do you de-awesome that!?
I think Matthew Goode was using Christian Bale's Magical Accent Generator (http://i36.tinypic.com/1zoia6r.jpg). (I figured he was using different accents for public and private interactions, but I couldn't quite figure out what they were supposed to be.)
It was a solid adaptation. Mostly I thought "Oh, ok." I saw it with three people who knew next to nothing about Watchmen and they really liked it, so I was glad. I was kind of afraid they'd be like "What did you make us watch!?"
The best film adapted from a book I've ever seen remains L.A. Confidential, which is a very dense complex book. The movie simplified the overall plot quite a bit, but they captured the spirit of the book and the essence of the characters beautifully. I think it might be possible to do a looser adaptation of Watchmen that would be a better film, but it wouldn't be a better adaptation of Watchmen, because it would become something else.
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I think Matthew Goode was using Christian Bale's Magical Accent Generator (http://i36.tinypic.com/1zoia6r.jpg). (I figured he was using different accents for public and private interactions, but I couldn't quite figure out what they were supposed to be.)
It was a solid adaptation. Mostly I thought "Oh, ok." I saw it with three people who knew next to nothing about Watchmen and they really liked it, so I was glad. I was kind of afraid they'd be like "What did you make us watch!?"
The best film adapted from a book I've ever seen remains L.A. Confidential, which is a very dense complex book. The movie simplified the overall plot quite a bit, but they captured the spirit of the book and the essence of the characters beautifully. I think it might be possible to do a looser adaptation of Watchmen that would be a better film, but it wouldn't be a better adaptation of Watchmen, because it would become something else.