Michael Schutz :: Blog » Film http://blog.michaelschutz.com Musings from a guy trying to understand the times and know what to do about it. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:24:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Who will read the Watchmen? http://blog.michaelschutz.com/2009/03/03/who-will-read-the-watchmen/ http://blog.michaelschutz.com/2009/03/03/who-will-read-the-watchmen/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:17:52 +0000 Michael http://blog.michaelschutz.com/?p=173 You might not know it, but I’ve never been one to hide my geek side. As a guy who still gets upset seeing the Elves march into Helm’s Deep and who stays up late fretting about the best way to attack a particular web site’s page.tpl.php file (do I hard-code stuff into the header or define regions that I can use with blocks?), I can safely lay claim to at least a little geek cred.

Watchmen book cover

The Watchmen book cover: piquing my curiosity since March 4, 2009.

So when I read this fascinating article about Watchmen creator Alan Moore’s hatred of the movie industry, I knew I had to venture into new geek territory – the graphic novel. I’ve never been a huge comic guy, though I read my share of Archie and Jughead back in the day. But this tripped something in me, and I ventured into the graphic novel aisle at my local B&N tonight. After thumbing through Frank Miller’s 300 (a movie I loved, by the way, and now I’m going to have to read the reason for the movie), and coming up empty on Watchmen, I finally found it in a main display in the middle of the store. Apparently the movie’s generated all kinds of interest from people who wouldn’t normally be into this kind of thing.

/me raises his hand.

I’d never even heard of the Watchmen before seeing the movie trailers (-3 geek points). But know I know where Rorschach tests got their name, and I have “one of Time Magazine’s 100 best novels” sitting in front of me. (NB, that’s not “100 best graphic novels”. It’s one of the 100 best novels. Period. Interesting.)

I’m sure I’ll see the movie, because I love movies. In fact, I probably enjoyed other comic-book adaptation movies (Spider-man, X-men) far more than many because of how little knowledge I have of the actual cominc stories. But this Watchmen thing is intriguing me, especially Alan Moore’s ranting on the movie process, so I’m going to read it first.

+5 geek points. End of post.

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