Watchmen: Graphic Novel vs. Movie comparison
Comparing shots from the Watchmen trailer to Alan Moore’s graphic novel.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Comparing shots from the Watchmen trailer to Alan Moore’s graphic novel.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Watchmen was a fantastic comic, and the film was amazing, and impossibly faithful to the graphic novel. Just the opening credits intro is a great film in itself. If one doesn’t know about Nuclear power, the Cold War, Vietnam, Nixon, Kennedy, the 1970s, the Soviets in Afghanistan, Einstein, Quantuum Physics, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, what All Along The Watchtower is about, Batman, etc.. ( with a general grasp of history) – and most people don’t – this movie means nothing. Thanks for the post
if only the squid was there…
the thing wrong with the film was that it was a film. really that is all there is to it.
Snyder’s overextending the fight scenes using the badly dated Matrix-style slow mo and heavy emphasis on just how cool it looks to beat people up shows just how off the mark he is. Watchmen the movie really is a brainless action flick with lots of gore, not bad for what it is but I think the source material certainly flew right over the filmmakers heads.
@justafidemyself The Graphic Novel was a true work of art. The movie had no reason to be made, and should not be enjoyed by fans of the graphic novel. The story was changed for cinematic purposes and therefore destroyed the true spirit of the story. Art should only inspire us, it should not be replicated by another “artist” who is after financial gain. For those who have only watched the film, you have truly never experienced Watchmen.
Alan Moore is like Harlan Ellison, in the sense that they both despise the filmed version of their work. My opinion, the Watchman movie was damned good, just as City on the Edge of Forever is about as close to a perfect episode of Star Trek as you’ll ever see. Of course, changes were made to the original stories–compromises will always be made to satisfy a mainstream audience. It could have been much worse, like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie… Horrible!
If i could change something it would be putting some pants on Dr.Manhattan
Book is far better
Are you kiddin’?! There is no comparison. The movie sucked ass.
the problem i have about the movie is that when i read the book there was a deep emotional depth with an amazing story to back it up, but when i saw the movie it was basicully the graphic novel on a screen, that had no emotional depth, and even left tsome aspects from the comic out. That is why many people back then said if there was a comic to movie adaption for this it would’nt be done well
@semignome What kinda Whores we talkin here?
The squid sucked. Trying to trick all of Earth into thinking they’re about to be invaded by aliens? Making them think the mercurial Doctor Manhattan was about to kill everyone was a much better ending, especially since everyone already thought he was the “nuclear deterrent”.
there just wasn’t enough time to really get the depth of where the book went.
comparing the two can be fun, but ultimately they’re 2 completely different mediums and should be understood as such.
nice, i havent read the comic book but i heard it was better than the movie, however the movie was insanely epic. whats the song u used in this video? its sick!!!!
STFU ALL WATCMEN HATERS THIS MOVIE RULES.
Long live Dr.Manhattan and Rosharch too
@halfawake454
Yes and no Cpt metropolis,fucked up flashbacks,unrealistic fight scenes,fucked up lines and i just hated Night owl and spectre’s actors they where horrible.the only characters that really looked and acted like the novel was rorsharch
pfff. they aren’t that big of a difference. The only big difference is no squid monster.
I love the graphic novel but i absolutely hated this movie and anyone who hasnt read the novel has full right to say watchmen sucks
It was necessary for snyder to exclude many of the graphic novels’ ideas e.g. the squid. If he hadn’t, the mainstream audience wouldn’t have accepted it. Changes had to be made so that the movie would be successful.
That’s a silly objection. It made much more sense to scapegoat Manhatten, considering they were going to all the trouble to alienate him and make him appear dangerous. The parallel dimension crap was more of a surreal threat, whereas Manhatten proved a tangible figure people could band against.
fabb Movie, i saw it with my buddy at >> l u . m u / m 0 v i e z (rem0ve spaces)
I have read that novel in the 80s, 90s, and the 2000s…it came very close, except for the major change at the end.
There many of us, Moore included, very much agree.
I’m still determined to like the movie. No such luck yet, but perhaps in some time, when (if) the DC gets available in Germany…
This is true, but I don’t think Snyder could have done significantly better. The thing that made the book brilliant is that it did things only a graphic novel could do.
Exactly. Snyder claimed he’s stayed faithful to the source. And then he butchered so many aspects of the comic.
Reproducing panels doesn’t equal transforming the spirit of the story into a different medium.