Who watches the watchmen ?

My tribute to watchmen the graphic novel by Alan Moore and the new movie coming out 2009. With the song I'll be watching you by the police.

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[xxkevxx105]

ill tell u who we do cuz we watch dis vid

[toekneebeeears]

Thanks

[darkwhitty]

I cant imagin 2 hours doing justice for this. The only way to enjoy the film is to have read the comic first. There are gonna be so many people in theatres going W.T.F...

This should be a TV series....

[izoeidolon]

Watchmen's the kind of novel that I don't think Hollywood people should be wondering how best to interpret. If they can't do it exactly as it is, don't touch it the hell at all.

[pearsonm957]

Who watches the watchmen? Sam Vimes. Who watches him? He does that to.

[cha5]

And Robert Crumb's 'Book Of Genesis'

which is an original hardback graphic novel book, of course wheither a retelling of the Biblical Book of Genesis qualifies as literature (IMO it does) is something I'll leave up to the experts.

You're quite right though that the comicbook is "an art in it's own right"

like Chris Ware's 'Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid On Earth' and Dave McKean's 'Cages' Mazzucchelli's 'Atrex'

This is a young artform with no limits as to what it can achieve.

[cha5]

Well for me Will Eisner's 'A Contract With God' qualifies as a graphic novel it's a combination of words and art that was done as a novel, Osamu Tezuka's 8 volume epic Buddha was also sold as books which were not something stapled together and sold on a newsstand. Art Spiegleman's Maus is something I have no problem calling literature even though it's a combination of words and pictures, Same with Joe Sacco's Palestine.

[toekneebeeears]

@papapepepenultimo

I don't understand you hatred of the name " graphic novel ". I think there should be a distinction between a single issue and a collection of single issues. That's where the name "graphic novel' comes in. Without it , what would you call a collection of issues ? You can not call it a "comic book" because a comic book is a single issue. So, the name "graphic novel" can be used in other ways than you described. That makes it a necessary name.

[papapepepenultimo]

Comic books are comic books, an art in its own right. Or "sequential art", if you will. They don't even need to have a single word on them (what kind of literature can you say the same about? Are there novels without words?)

New arts tend to be looked as a form of an older art. At first, photography was considered an inferior form of painting, cinema an inferior form of theater, TV an inferior form of cinema. And so on.

[toekneebeeears]

@papapepepenultimo

If comic books are not literature, what are they ?

[papapepepenultimo]

The denomination Graphic Novel is an unnecessary attempt to make comic-books look "serious" by including them in literature. Well, let's be clear: comic books are not literature, no more than films are photography. They have things in common, but are separated disciplines.

What about "Understanding Comics"? Is it a "Graphic Essay"?

And the so oft-cited inclusion in Time's list is just pathetic. An Eisner Award is by far a better recognition in the field of sequential art.

[GideonDrexlar]

Never really understood what people got out of trolling. You obviously don't like Watchmen yet you watch fan-vids on youtube about it?

I laff at you

[cha5]

Hey do you define Maus as a comicbook?

How about A Contract With God?

or From Hell?, one can argue the semantics of what constitutes a comicbook vs a graphic novel,

Watchmen is listed in Time Magazines best 100 novels created,

it's a graphic novel.

[Yusuke252]

Who watches the Watchmen? ADD addled kids who think this shit is quality.

[toekneebeeears]

Please look up the definition of Graphic Novel. You will see that Watchmen is both a comic book and a graphic novel. It was original published as a comic book then latter published as a graphic novel. please do a little research before you comment.

[Yusuke252]

It's not a graphic novel, it's a friggin comic book.

[atomicoption]

ya rorschach and his actor= perfect harmony

[duncan36]

Wow if you told me that Gibbons sat down and 'comic-ized' Jeffrey Dean Morgan for the 1985 GN I'd believe you. The similarity between some of the actors in the movie to the comic is unreal.

[hotfuzzidol]

Brilliant Music. Top notch!

[darkwhitty]

But your okay spoiling the comic? Its upto you but with a movie you dont get chance to go back if u miss somthing.

If u dont like reading comics there is also the animated comic, you could just watch the 1st issue of that and it wont spoil anything.

[8VXU6]

but I dont want to spoil the movie, am I going to really lost?

[cha5]

So true, this movie may be visually interesting but Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel is the gold standard.

[rljuarez70]

The ozy manip actually isn't far off from the real thing

[rockle18]

NOTE TO EVERYONE:

read the book, its way better than the movie has a chance to be

[toekneebeeears]

Your both right. I think they should have split the book into a movie trilogy.