Comments on: Yeah, We Watched Them http://www.frillyshirt.org/2009/03/22/yeah-we-watched-them/ History, Art, Nature, the Fine and the Silly, from a Colonial Fop. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sir Frederick Chook http://www.frillyshirt.org/2009/03/22/yeah-we-watched-them/comment-page-1/#comment-89765 Sir Frederick Chook Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:13:16 +0000 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2009/03/22/yeah-we-watched-them/#comment-89765 That's completely fair enough. I really like Moore, and I like a lot of Whedon but equally dislike a lot of it (love some seasons of Buffy and can't stand others, for instance). Gaiman I actually find kind of creepily misogynistic. I can name two close friends who will eagerly defend both of the above and really like those works. So I get where you're coming from. As for Watchmen, well, there's a lot in there that's a sly nod to the book, or makes the most sense if you're familiar with it... but Ms Merah had never read the book and still enjoyed the film. I daresay it's worth a try! That’s completely fair enough. I really like Moore, and I like a lot of Whedon but equally dislike a lot of it (love some seasons of Buffy and can’t stand others, for instance). Gaiman I actually find kind of creepily misogynistic. I can name two close friends who will eagerly defend both of the above and really like those works. So I get where you’re coming from.

As for Watchmen, well, there’s a lot in there that’s a sly nod to the book, or makes the most sense if you’re familiar with it… but Ms Merah had never read the book and still enjoyed the film. I daresay it’s worth a try!

]]> By: Melanthios http://www.frillyshirt.org/2009/03/22/yeah-we-watched-them/comment-page-1/#comment-89692 Melanthios Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:57:55 +0000 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2009/03/22/yeah-we-watched-them/#comment-89692 You know, I'm constantly in a quandary about seeing this film/reading this comic. On the one hand, I really, really detest Alan Moore. On the other hand, I really loved The Incredibles, and I love superhero stories like that, that deal with superheroes in a realistic way. And then there's the eternal argument of film vs. book. I loved LXG the novelesation of the film + the film. I hated the comics. They were awful. I even read the first TWO, and tried REALLY hard to like them. I read V for Vendetta, and while it was entertaining--it still didn't stick with me. It felt like so much pretentious fluff that was funny while reading, but fails to have much substance afterward. I read Lost Girls, and felt the same way, though without any of the funny. Moore, to me, has the same power that Meyer does--I keep reading and trying to like it, but I never really do. It's doubly frustrating that this seems to happen with all the popular creators that are considered too good to criticise, like Moore, Whedon, Gaiman and Burton. I'm wondering if the film is worth seeing on its own, as a separate entity from the comic. No one seems to have that kind of opinion of it. :( You know, I’m constantly in a quandary about seeing this film/reading this comic. On the one hand, I really, really detest Alan Moore. On the other hand, I really loved The Incredibles, and I love superhero stories like that, that deal with superheroes in a realistic way. And then there’s the eternal argument of film vs. book.

I loved LXG the novelesation of the film + the film. I hated the comics. They were awful. I even read the first TWO, and tried REALLY hard to like them. I read V for Vendetta, and while it was entertaining–it still didn’t stick with me. It felt like so much pretentious fluff that was funny while reading, but fails to have much substance afterward. I read Lost Girls, and felt the same way, though without any of the funny. Moore, to me, has the same power that Meyer does–I keep reading and trying to like it, but I never really do.

It’s doubly frustrating that this seems to happen with all the popular creators that are considered too good to criticise, like Moore, Whedon, Gaiman and Burton.

I’m wondering if the film is worth seeing on its own, as a separate entity from the comic. No one seems to have that kind of opinion of it. :(

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