I had a slightly different take. Moore's lines were the only ones with any life, true - but the cleverness didn't translate from the page to the screen. The line that nobody is laughing because The Comedian died is powerful and resonating in the book. In the movie, it fell flat.
But not as flat as the lines NOT written by Alan Moore.
OK, I need your opinion on this, since it has split my local friends right down the middle: from the way he was presented in the movie, was it or was it not obvious who was behind it all from, like, the first time you see him?
THANK YOU! There was no ambiguity to him at all - he looked and acted like an ass from the minute you see him outside of Studio 54. There was none of the "he's a good guy who just happened to sell out" vibe from the first 10 issues of the comic.
Well, the writers and director obviously had no concern for actual human beings, so why should Ozymandias? I noticed that he didn't get an origin in the movie, either.
posted on Sunday, Mar 29th by Chain Boy
And your thoughts? Or did your brain shut down?
Every line that wasn't Alan Moore's was utterly generic and dull. I don't know why they didn't just use the book literally as the storyboard.
I had a slightly different take. Moore's lines were the only ones with any life, true - but the cleverness didn't translate from the page to the screen. The line that nobody is laughing because The Comedian died is powerful and resonating in the book. In the movie, it fell flat.
But not as flat as the lines NOT written by Alan Moore.
It made me appreciate how exquisite the timing and pacing is in the book.
OK, I need your opinion on this, since it has split my local friends right down the middle: from the way he was presented in the movie, was it or was it not obvious who was behind it all from, like, the first time you see him?
Totally obvious. He was thoroughly a comic book villain!
THANK YOU! There was no ambiguity to him at all - he looked and acted like an ass from the minute you see him outside of Studio 54. There was none of the "he's a good guy who just happened to sell out" vibe from the first 10 issues of the comic.
Well, the writers and director obviously had no concern for actual human beings, so why should Ozymandias? I noticed that he didn't get an origin in the movie, either.