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Also it should be noted that neither watchmen nor v for vendetta had narration like 300, which greatly eases the transfer from novel to film. Another thing to consider is pacing. Scenes that play perfectly in panels can often seem long and drawn out on film. That’s why its so important to rewrite an adaptation like watchmen. You have to play to the strengths of your medium, so when that medium changes, so must the story.

For what its worth, I think watchmen would have worked great as a 12 part HBO miniseries, provided it had the budget. Then they could make a true shot for shot adaptation with no changes or omissions, and retain the feel of a serial stroy.

Watchmen was the unfilmable graphic novel and this was proven in the awful photocopy job they attempted in the film.

Honestly, Hollywood can stay out of the comic book film business forever. The saying is always, “the book is always better”. It is true of novels and short stories and it is true with the comics.

Did you post saying anything about liking it. and I don’t think the marketing was the issue

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Where on earth in my post did I state that Watchmen was SUCKED because it was not Spider Man or Batman?

Yes, I see what you’re saying, but Watchmen was hugely unlikely to be a success form the get-go. Other films such as The Dark Knight and Iron Man don’t even need to bother to explain their stories in the trailers because pretty much everyone knows the characters. Watchmen on the other hand is not well-known at all and the trailers and the marketing needed to explain what the film was about a whole lot more which they failed to do. Yes, more honesty probably wouldn’t have helped it but then again it may have spared some of WB’s massive marketing dollars which appears to have been wasted.

@ LordThanos X

Not trying to be rude, indeed. Where on earth in my post did I state that Watchmen was a failure because it was not Spider Man or Batman? Where in my post did I speak of the complexities of the characters being a factor in Watchmen’s dismal box office performance?I also fail to see how my opinion is invalid but you childish tirade is. I too have read the graphic novel and consider it to be the most groundbreaking and important graphic novel ever published so I had no problem following the story which adhered well to the source. Unlike your assumption, I liked the film and perhaps appreciated it far more than most people who quickly wrote it off. My post was addressing why Watchmen failed at the box office and I believe that came down to marketing, not the story itself. It’s interesting how you quickly disregard the marketing for the film when it is crucial to any film’s success. Most people not familiar with the graphic novel went in expecting one thing and came out with another. WB built the film up to be an action film of sorts and people went in expecting that but they quickly realized it was far from an action film.