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Alan Moore is a full-blown crazy genius, though, and that genius justifies his eccentricities. At least in my opinion. I finally read Voice of the Fire this summer too. The guy is amazing.

It's a shame his best work is years behind him. He'll never be able to top The Watchmen, and I think that's one of the reasons he's so cranky about anything and everything these days.

Yorel wrote:

Crimson Devil wrote:The costumes needed to change for the movie. I doubt people would have taken Nite Owl seriously enough for the story if he was a fat guy in spandex and Silk Spectre's costume always sucked.

That was charm of Nie Owl, he was overweight, he was lonely he did have "ahem" problems. But they were normal problems, ones that anyone and everyone could suffer from.

And will people take him seriously now that he looks like a Batman-wannabie and yes I'm awear that he was based on Batman. He just looks to much like Batman now.

I don't think they can really devout enough time to Nite Owl in a two hour movie for people to understand his complexity with every thing else going on. Most movie viewers will see him as a Batman wannabe and nothing else. If he comes off as comic relief it could hurt the overall story.

Griffu wrote:

Ahtman wrote:Well, if Alan Moore had his way nothing he ever did would be made into a movie. It could be spot on and have millions of new people love it and lead them to the book and he'd still hate it.

I get he had some problems with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and... the Captain Britain character, was it?... but the way he treats film adaptations of his work like flag burning turns me off of him. He sounds full of himself and exacerbates a lot of the nerdrage a geek-film inevitably gets.

I got interested in Hellboy because of the films and Mike Mignola's has a great attitude about the whole thing. Even when the films differ he just says "Well they should be different" .

The league thing truly offended him on a core level. He was portrayed as a studio hack and thief in court. I can understand why he is was so upset. He is not someone to let go of a grudge.

DC also screwed him over. Alan was supposed to get all the rights to Watchmen after the original printing, but DC had no intention of letting the right revert to him. As long as Watchmen remains in print, it belongs to DC.

And it was Marvelman (Miracleman to us yanks).

theHandofGork wrote:Not Batman as much as the Blue Beetle. Watchmen was originally a way to use the rights to Charlton Comics which DC had acquired.

Sorry my mistake, but lets face it people while automatically think of Batman when they see him.

Crimson Devil wrote:I don't think they can really devout enough time to Nite Owl in a two hour movie for people to understand his complexity with every thing else going on. Most movie viewers will see him as a Batman wannabe and nothing else. If he comes off as comic relief it could hurt the overall story.

Agreed, to have Nite Owl come off as comic relief would be a very, very, very bad think and would only serve to justifie Alan Moore's argument. If the film actruly follows the comic (Both Storyline and script) then it wouldn't be that hard to express Nite Owl's problems with out making it funny or comedic.

New trailer from comiccon

DO the Bad Guys really wear masks like Campy Batman TV?

Frazzled wrote:DO the Bad Guys really wear masks like Campy Batman TV?

What bad guys? There were almost no bad guys in that trailer (of course there were almost no good guys either). Probably from the scenes that take place during the 1950's.

They wear the masks so that they can have a secret identity.

Manhattan doesn't need one as he is a true superhero.
Silk spectre doesn't because she wants to make money from the publicity.

The rest do because they are guys who go around beating other people up, just vigilantes essentially.

EDIT never mind: please see the Watchmen reviews thread for some early reviews: good and bad