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Post by TheGarm on Apr 18, 2013 0:35:12 GMT
Huge in comics. Even wrote for Doctor Who Magazine's strip. A fascinating character too. Always sad that Hollywood hasn't done well with his work, although I have to say, I did think the film adaption of V For Vendetta was very good, and not really deserving of his disappointment (in comparison to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!)
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Post by tedkord on Apr 18, 2013 1:04:34 GMT
The weird (and artistically justifiable) thing about Alan Moore is that he writes for his medium. You want a brilliant crime thriller/historical piece, you have From Hell. You want an amazing superhero comic, you have his Superman, or Green Arrow or Batman. You want a horror comic? Swamp Thing or latterly Neonomicon. You want a politically astute indictment of Reganism/Thatcherism and the brute force of vigilantes! Watchmen. V For Vendetta.
What he made sure about each of those things was that they would never translate. All of Watchmen is falsely centred around a beautiful palindromic issue, that is such a red herring but so vital. Equally his first novel has hundreds of pages in gibberish to "keep out the scum".
And they don't translate. Lost Girls would be illegal, Watchmen is appaling. LXG is doubly disappointing because the screenwriter, James Robinson, is responsible for brilliant comics himself. His Starman series is sublime, his Golden Age graphic novel a joy. From Hell is fluff. CONSTANTINE IS AN ABOMINATION. and V is nice. It comes from a good place, but at the end, in an attempt to make a huge, climactic set piece, it undermined the whole elthos of the book. I could happily do another dissertation about that film, that mask and Anonymous.
Despite that, he is a curmudgeon, a legend and someone who has done as much for comics as Stan Lee.
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Post by TheGarm on Apr 18, 2013 1:43:09 GMT
I was very disappointed in Watchmen, and surprised at the easy critical ride it had. Halleluah... Oh dear.
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Post by tedkord on Apr 18, 2013 10:10:09 GMT
Yeah, it's an odd one, that. I suspect it's because there's not mas much common knowledge there than with, say, Batman, so critics can't see what went wrong. Not that it works much as a film on its own terms.
I think they got a handful of things right - the credits sequence, the Veidt/Comedian fight, Rorschach and the prison escape, but that was about it. Snyder has a habit of making things look nice, but stripping themof any soul - which worries me with his new Superman film because that doesn't even LOOK right.
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