watchmen, the movie

[CUTUP]

I dont blame these people for not wanting to be associated with someone elses work ( essentially by the time their own work was de-constructed and made more mainstream, I would classify it as not their own anymore)

Its truly ridiculous how often Hollywood thinks they know exactly what people want, and then in turn butcher classics, or what was destined to be a classic.

I have lost count of how many re-makes and adaptations have been made in recent years, creativity dried up a long time ago in Hollywood

[readytoignite]

^that's an simplistic and poorly reasoned point - reading aloud does not equate to a movie adaptation.

He does not want to be associated with the film adaptation because it is not longer "his" vision. Reading the story aloud allows him to flesh out how he exactly wants the characters to sound and how he, the creator (most importantly), would have them portrayed. It is safe to assume that he constantly was reading aloud the dialogue as he was writing it to help him both visualize the characters as well as further resolve their personas on the page and give them a definitive voice (both in his mind and that of the reader).

It can't be hypocritical if he is doing the dramatic reading of his OWN work. He disassociated with the project because it ceased to be his OWN work and became Zack Snyder's. Obviously Moore has his own reasons other than that for disengaging his name from the project (though the basis is still his), but it doesn't exactly challenge his artistic integrity since HE didn't make the movie.

i was being rhetorically facetious to demonstrate the silliness of his argument, to wit: that you shouldn't make an adaptation of something because it was designed for a particular medium:

"My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way[...]"

shall we invalidate key works of mussorgsky, peter jackson, stanley kubrick and charlie kaufman because they are mere adaptations?

i'm all for reconstructed modernism but you have to admit it is an anachronistic stance

this is not to diminish the achievement of the watchmen series btw (or hayter/snyder, really). i gave our joint comics collection to my brother around 1990 - the alan moore swamp things, dark knight, watchmen, american flagg, cerebus, wolverine mini, punisher #1, loads of bill sienkiewicz etc; probably should revisit them with an adult perspective - too bad he lives on the other coast though

[jeepster]

^well obviously it's a bit contrived to say "This may be my work as someone else is adapting it, but nonetheless I will not associate with it"

I'm not disagreeing with you, but your point before didn't come across as "facetious" per say... just a little vague.

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Avengers/ASM 101-129 tentatively sold though. Seriously, you can take like $100 and walk away with 200 comics. I'm letting the shits go for dirt cheap.