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Originally posted by waffle
I've got to reiterate what I said in an earlier post:
I just wasn't blown away by Watchmen.
I can see how it would have rocked everything at the time (like seeing Star Wars when it was first released) but now, like Star Wars, they're kinda, "Well, yeah, they're pretty good, I guess, but I've seen/read better."
Do you know what I mean?
People who are respected and well-regarded say that Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever, so people watch it, but the majority of them go, "yeah. I guess it's alright. but I don't think it's the best ever OF ALL TIME."
I just found Watchmen a little bitty, jumpy, and not particularly cohesive as a whole. Although there were undoubted moments of genius in it.
As far as a movie goes, I hope they just leave it alone. (Paul Walker as Dr Manhattan, Orlando Bloom as Rorschach... there's no way the makers will get it right) It is undoubtedly a work of enormous vision, and a movie would not even come close to doing it justice. These things never do. If anything, it'd spoil the mythos surrounding the book.
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cool - everyone is entitled to their opinion and it probably does come down to when you read something - i read watchmen just a few years after it had come out and found it to be totally revolutionary (but this was back in the late 80s when, to be honest, it WAS totally revolutionary).
out of curiosity - what do you think was the "best ever of all time" comic or series?