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News Watchmen -- The two-part animated adaptation

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The trailer for part 1 of the two-part animated adaptation of the classic work by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Naturally, Moore's name is not attached to the project. Gibbons serves as a Consulting Producer.

It looks very accurate to the source material, right down to emulating Gibbons' art style. Script adapted by JM Straczynski.

I didn't think a spoiler warning would be necessary for this particular thread.. :lol:

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Streaming on August 13th and Blu-ray on August 29th.
 
Looks like they are using the same animation style Marvel used for What If.


I believe this is the last hurrah for DC’s DTV movie projects. The Tomorrowverse movies weren’t as profitable as the DCAMU movies and Gunn is pushing total brand synergy.
 
Looks promising but I'm not the biggest fan of the original comic (not a popular opinion, I know...). There are parts I love, parts I hate. So we'll see here. I loved how the Lindelof series built on the themes and developed their own that worked within the same confines.

Either way, I'll check this out when I have the time and try to keep an open mind.
 
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The Nth Doctor said:
Looks promising but I'm not the biggest fan of the original comic (not a popular opinion, I know...).
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You can go off people you know :)

Looks great, not sure it needs to exist but suspect I will want to own it (but like @Tosk I'd want a box set)

This reminds me that having watched it on streaming and really enjoyed it I did buy the Lindelof series on DVD but haven't actually got around to re-watching it yet!
 
The Lindelof version beats Game of Thrones as best series of all time that didn't stick the landing.
 
Interesting, I recall being satisfied with how it ended, but has been a couple of years since I've seen it now I guess
 
I thought the Lindelof series absolutely stuck the landing.

But then I thought the conclusion of Game of Thrones was done mostly well (with some flaws) and I loved the  LOST finale, so what do I know? :lol:
 
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The Nth Doctor said:
I thought the Lindelof series absolutely stuck the landing.

But then I thought the conclusion of Gamrs of Thrones was done mostly well (with some flaws) and I loved the  LOST finale, so what do I know? :lol:
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I was being flippant. I loved Game of Thrones and Lost's finales. And I mostly enjoyed Watchman's ending except that the cabal of evil ended up being nothing deeper than a mustachio twirling Nazi-esque two-dimensional bad guy. My comment was meant to reference how it was treated at the time. It didn't reflect my actual opinion.

My actual opinion is that I love all three series. GoT suffered from needing to wrap up the series too quickly and in advance of Martin finishing his damn story. Lost was great all the way through the end--despite the publicity.
 
Fantastic! I've seen so much pushback at the conclusions for Game of Thrones and  LOST that I went into my automatic defense mode.

Plus, I hadn't seen much criticism for the Lindelof series (aside from the two-dimensional villainary reveal as you already mentioned) that I was quickly on my back foot.

I happily stand corrected!
 
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The Nth Doctor said:
Fantastic! I've seen so much pushback at the conclusions for Game of Thrones and  LOST that I went into my automatic defense mode.

Plus, I hadn't seen much criticism for the Lindelof series (aside from the two-dimensional villainary reveal as you already mentioned) that I was quickly on my back foot.

I happily stand corrected!
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I laughed at people's reaction to GoT because it was so obvious where the ending was going if you'd read the novels. I remember in 2015 (or around there) how people were naming their female children Daenerys and saying to my wife that those people haven't read the novels. As for Lost, I thought the story, characters, and ending were all great. Both were shows that became too popular for what they were and had to deal with the negative feedback of the "masses" of people who expected something different from what they became invested in.

Which is maybe something we should take over to the Toxic Fandom thread.
 
Yup, I completely agree with all points, especially considering Daenerys' obvious course trajectory based on the novels. And agreed that this broader discussion should shift to the Toxic Fandom thread.
 
I do love the fact that they aren't shying away from the graphic content of the source material. I'm a fan of the original movie (not popular, I know), but this might be even better!
 
^I'm no fan of Snyder but IMO Watchmen is one of the best things he's done (along with his Dawn of the Dead remake) and I always said was a better Watchmen film adaptation than we had any right to expect
 
Turtletrekker said:
It looks very accurate to the source material, right down to emulating Gibbons' art style.
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It's nice to see them do that. I've been very disappointed with DC animation's recent tendency to make everything look like cut rate anime instead of the source material (whomever greenlit a Crisis on Infintite Earths adaptation that didn't even try to adapt George Perez's art should be fired immediately).
 
I guess I'm the only one who really doesn't like the animation. To me it looks like the animation of Marvel's What If, but made on 1/3rd the budget.

I also just don't understand the point of this. The live action adaptation is a perfectly fine adaptation, honestly I think the few things it changes are all improvements over the source material. Are people still really that salty about the live action film

Replacing the original villain plan with the villain framing Doctor Manhattan as the final threat? There is no real difference to the story, outside of making it a bit less goofy.

Outside of that, what is there to do differently? Are they going to adapt the tedious text parts? Or are they going to take stuff from those "Before Watchmen" comics? This whole thing just feels like a weird waste of time to me.
 
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No JMS-isms? Well that's disappointing, wait... what do you suppose JMS thinks JMS-ism means? I don't think he thinks it means what I think it means.
 
Orac said:
No JMS-isms? Well that's disappointing, wait... what do you suppose JMS thinks JMS-ism means? I don't think he thinks it means what I think it means.
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His specific quote was, "I don't want people to come to the movie looking for JMS-isms or the like. I translated the structure to what works for film, but didn't add much of anything to the text. Which is why I insisted on an Adapted By credit on the movie rather than Written By."

So from context, he's saying he didn't add or rework anything in his own style, but merely adjusted the structure of Moore and Gibbons's story to work in screen format.

Why, what do you think it means?
 
Christopher said:
Why, what do you think it means?
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In my mind a JSM-ism is one of those long monologues that appear in the last 3 seasons of Babylon 5 where JMS wrote practically every episode without anyone editing his writing. You know the type of thing I mean, where a character tells an amusing anecdote but just keeps talking after the punchline, it just keeps going and kills the joke, where an editor would have cut out the last part, I love that shit!

(He does this with monologues that are meant to be profound too)

Also the dark humour and the humour that isn't funny but JMS left it in 'cause HE thought it was funny.

So uh, in conclusion I guess I think a JSM-ism is excessive profundity and esoteric humour that only appears in the unedited work of a prolific writer with the initials JMS.
 
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