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Once again they're trying to make a movie out of Watchmen. A patently bad idea.

A friend of mine suggested that if you wanted to adopt Watchmen to another medium, it should become a filmstrip. Just show the illustrations, and have actors dramatise the voices.

(I assume by now schools don't use filmstrips anymore. It's probably all videos. How old do you have to be to remember the "beeep" that signaled a frame change? Or to have learned how to load a film projector?)

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• #3 Comment from kenickietjk 
  7/21/03 9:30 PM | Permalink

  Linked: http://trav.typepad.com/betablog/2003/07/i_do.html
• #2 Comment from kf4ncu 
  7/17/03 10:55 PM | Permalink

  OK, I guess AOL Journals doesn't grok HTML. :-/
  
• #1 Comment from kf4ncu 
  7/17/03 10:54 PM | Permalink

  I posted some of my own ideas about this at <a href="http://mg.blogs.com/widdershins/2003/07/watchmen.html">widdershins</a>. Bottom line: movie can't be as great as original, but could still be decent. It also occurs to me that scripts are commissioned all the time without the movie ever actually being made, so don't hold your breath. The story itself is awfully grim and has very little sequel-potential -- not exactly big selling points.
  
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