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_refugee_  ·  3725 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book Club Update: Looks like the graphic novel Watchmen

    and magickally

Yes, I'm sure this is why people didn't like the movie. I have mixed opinions, but I also try to look at movies as "riffs" on books as opposed to page-by-page retellings (because they never are; why get disappointed?). What Hollywood's done to the Hobbit is pretty shitty and gratuitous, though. However I still have seen it in theaters and will go see the last one...can't not.

    Hollywood has a history of screwing up Moore's work. KB's right - this is the least worst adaptation

It's true. V for Vendetta is just totally different all the fuck over the place.

Sometimes I find it very interesting to see what they change and why.

Can we blame at least some of this on the MPAA, though? I'd like to. Though - the would-be Watchmen KB talks about, that just makes me shudder. I'm very glad that's not what happened.