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"Worry not, fans of brutal superheroes: The rape that's central to Watchmen's complex character dynamics will be featured in the movie without any censorship. Maybe just the opposite, in fact.

Talking to MTV, Jeffrey Dean Morgan - who plays the Comedian in Zack Snyder's movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic comic - said that the scene where his character is discovered raping Carla Gugino's Silk Spectre wasn't an easy one to shoot:

It was a three-day process shooting that particular scene, and it was hard... It was three of the hardest days of filming I have ever had to do. It was really very violent.

Violent, you may be thinking? Wasn't it kind of... understated in the original comic? Well, yes, but certain liberties have to be taken in adapting things into movies, Morgan explained:

When you’re looking at the comic book you only get a couple panels so there is a lot of stuff there that needs to be filled in, so we fill in the blanks there between three and four panels, and it turns out to be one hell of a violent scene. And it’s all intact, [Hooded Justice] comes in and interrupts the attempted rape — it’s all there. We stayed very loyal to it, and I haven’t actually seen the scene yet, but I did see a piece of playback when we were filming it and it’s a lot... It’s rated ‘R’ for a reason.

Call it a suspicious nature, but the glibness of "it's rated 'R' for a reason" (or, for that matter, Gugino calling the scene "pretty crazy" last year) concerns me for some reason. Am I really the only one who's worried that "filling in" things between panels is going to equal a glossy, sensationalistic gratuitous scene in this case..?"

This mayyyyy sound graphic after this topic...

 

BUT I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE. :o

Frankly, I think the actors putting so much emphasis on it just to sell the film is a bit fukkin' tacky tbh, and totally immature, quite unlike the comic, which was an incredibly mature and complex work, totally re-writing the very concept of super hero fiction, the show "Heroes" simply would not exist without Watchmen...... I can now see why Alan Moore wanted nothing to do with this film adaption of his and Dave Gibbons' brilliant comic art opus...... I really just do NOT think this film will do anything like justice to the source (a bit like the rather pish 'V for Vendetta' actually...) and will end up being an insult to the intelligence of anyone who ever grew up reading the Watchmen comics and being startled by the quality of the storytelling.......

 

This has "one for download" written all over it for me..... -_-

Well...I hope your wrong.

 

:( :rofl:

Being the comic nerd i am i agree with Grim.

 

Apparently they even changed the ending which is a complete insult to what is known as the greatest graphic novel ever. The comic was revolutionary, I don't think it should have been made into a movie as a movie could not recreate the brilliant story writing and composition of the comic. I think it will completly ruin it,. Alan Moore also completly rejects the film, he isnt even going to see it. Although Zack Synder did fantastic work on 300, this film screams ANOTHER CLASSIC COMIC RUNIED BY FILM.

 

R.I.P The Watchmen.

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Being the comic nerd i am i agree with Grim.

 

Apparently they even changed the ending which is a complete insult to what is known as the greatest graphic novel ever. The comic was revolutionary, I don't think it should have been made into a movie as a movie could not recreate the brilliant story writing and composition of the comic. I think it will completly ruin it,. Alan Moore also completly rejects the film, he isnt even going to see it. Although Zack Synder did fantastic work on 300, this film screams ANOTHER CLASSIC COMIC RUNIED BY FILM.

 

R.I.P The Watchmen.

 

You thought 300 was a good film....? Sorry mate, I thought it was just rather cheesy gay soft-porn to be honest..... :lol: Just a bloated and pretentious "Sword and Sandals" film with ideas way above its station...

 

I'm not impressed with Zack Snyder at all tbh... His remake of Dawn of the Dead was a bit cack as well.... 'Yes, let's make the zombies run fast because that's what Danny Boyle did with 28 Days Later.....' :rolleyes: Danny Boyle - great film-maker, Zack Snyder - hack....

 

MCR are doing the soundtrack to this

 

Another reason to hate this film.... :lol: :lol: :P

 

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:mellow:

 

1000% not seeing this now.

 

You thought 300 was a good film....? Sorry mate, I thought it was just rather cheesy gay soft-porn to be honest..... :lol: Just a bloated and pretentious "Sword and Sandals" film with ideas way above its station...

 

I'm not impressed with Zack Snyder at all tbh... His remake of Dawn of the Dead was a bit cack as well.... 'Yes, let's make the zombies run fast because that's what Danny Boyle did with 28 Days Later.....' :rolleyes: Danny Boyle - great film-maker, Zack Snyder - hack....

 

DOTD was pretty dire.

When I was doing pre-college over the summer at an art college, two of my best friends there were comic book art majors. One of them was completely disgusted when he saw the trailer when we went to see The Dark Knight; he said that the trailer was already a sign that the comic book would be ruined, especially because of the guy directing it.

 

I haven't read it or anything, but this seems to be a growing opinion by the looks of things.

 

I haven't been impressed anyway. Isn't like the whole point of the comic to focus on average people? It seems like the movie is going for this extremely epic feel to it. I honestly dunno though; I should ask my friend what he thinks about it now haha.

 

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That says a lot about who their target audience is LOL. You can just tell that this is going to be one of those films that's going to be a huge trend to like, people will call it epic/crazy intelligent etc. when it really isn't. I'd much rather read the graphic novel.

When I was doing pre-college over the summer at an art college, two of my best friends there were comic book art majors. One of them was completely disgusted when he saw the trailer when we went to see The Dark Knight; he said that the trailer was already a sign that the comic book would be ruined, especially because of the guy directing it.

 

I haven't read it or anything, but this seems to be a growing opinion by the looks of things.

 

I haven't been impressed anyway. Isn't like the whole point of the comic to focus on average people? It seems like the movie is going for this extremely epic feel to it. I honestly dunno though; I should ask my friend what he thinks about it now haha.

That says a lot about who their target audience is LOL. You can just tell that this is going to be one of those films that's going to be a huge trend to like, people will call it epic/crazy intelligent etc. when it really isn't. I'd much rather read the graphic novel.

 

I really really really there were such things in England :(

 

 

The graphic novel is complete genius, I think it is fair to say it is one of the best thing's I havere ever read in my life, it put's across strong messages and things in a unique way, and to be honest it is pretty revolutionary, I dont think it is possible to put across what is portrayed in the pages of The Watchmen to the big screen, we could all go and complain about Zack Synder ruinging it, but to be honest could anyone do any better without ruining the greatest graphic novel of all time? But really i don't think any movie company ever should attempt to recreate such a masterpiece

I dont think it is possible to put across what is portrayed in the pages of The Watchmen to the big screen

 

Actually, I believe that had it been done as an Anime film by someone like Mamuro Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) or Katsushiro Otomo (Akira) it most certainly would have retained pretty much all the themes of the graphic novel..... The level of sophistication in works like Akira and Ghost in the Shell is pretty amazing, and I do believe that Oshii in particular could have even translated it well to live action even, he's done live action films before (Avalon, which is simply superb, and like Ghost in the Shell, deals with very complex themes and concepts...).

 

No, I dont believe that it's a case that Watchmen and V For Vendetta couldn't be done, they were just done badly, and wrongly.....

When I was doing pre-college over the summer at an art college, two of my best friends there were comic book art majors. One of them was completely disgusted when he saw the trailer when we went to see The Dark Knight; he said that the trailer was already a sign that the comic book would be ruined, especially because of the guy directing it.

 

In my opinion, your friend is entirely wrong about Chris Nolan's Batman films..... For a start, it was never Nolan's intent to actually do an adaptation of "The Dark Knight Returns" (which seems to be the false perception your friend was labouring under) or indeed "Year One" for Batman Begins.... Nolan just took a few cues and ideas for structure from those stories and translated it into cinematic terms, ie, what story would work best cinematically, while still retaining the attitude and air of the comic book origins..... I think Nolan accomplished both tasks quite superbly and with some brio, on the one hand creating a cinematic masterpiece, but on the other never forgetting where Batman's origins began and being respectful where so many other comic book-to-film translations just weren't.....

 

In fact, surely Nolan was the man to do "The Watchmen".....

In my opinion, your friend is entirely wrong about Chris Nolan's Batman films..... For a start, it was never Nolan's intent to actually do an adaptation of "The Dark Knight Returns" (which seems to be the false perception your friend was labouring under) or indeed "Year One" for Batman Begins.... Nolan just took a few cues and ideas for structure from those stories and translated it into cinematic terms, ie, what story would work best cinematically, while still retaining the attitude and air of the comic book origins..... I think Nolan accomplished both tasks quite superbly and with some brio, on the one hand creating a cinematic masterpiece, but on the other never forgetting where Batman's origins began and being respectful where so many other comic book-to-film translations just weren't.....

 

In fact, surely Nolan was the man to do "The Watchmen".....

 

 

I think his friend was talking about The Watchman, not TDK lol. i thought he meant it was a bad sign from the watchman trailer (when they saw TDK) was already a sign of a ruined comic.

Yeah he was talking about Watchmen. :P He adored the Dark Knight.

Yeah he was talking about Watchmen. :P He adored the Dark Knight.

 

:blush: oops, my bad.... Totally picked that one up wrong..... :lol: :lol:

Has anyone else watched this yet?

I watched it tonight and wasn't expecting much at all tbh, but was pleasantly surprised! Okay, so it wasn't AMAZING but I still quite enjoyed it! :o

I rather not see this. :(

I heard it's a disgrace to the graphic novel pretty much LOL. Totally kills the emotion of it all.

 

TO BE FAIR, I have not seen it so hey-oh.

I WAS DRAGGED TO SEE THIS BY MY BF. SCHOOLBOY ERROR.

 

It was alright, but...$h!t? I'm not being funny, but I thought I'd mistaken it for Emmanuelle 2000 or something. Why would my bf take me to see a film which is $h!t and clearly just focusses on sexytime? He'd be lucky if he was planning to get some at home.

 

And the girl was an appalling actress and probably only got the role for putting out for a parsnip. Ugh. I really hated it. I suppose it's alright for little 15 year old boys who can't get laid to get their rocks off to though.