Director of the film WATCHMEN sat down with National Lampoon's Matt Zaller for a discussion about superhero mythology and how the Watchmen is a unique take on how superheros impact actual historic events. Snyder has quite an impressive knowledge about comic books which makes for an interesting conversion. Snyder also directed the hit film 300. Zaller is a director too, but um. Yeah.
@100FingeredMonkey
Yeah some parts of the movie were shocking, but it wasn't just shock value to me nor was it just style and no substance. It was a story driven movie and I think that's a reason why people didn't like it. Either they couldn't understand the story or just missed the entire message behind the movie. Some people also don't care about story. They just want to see action, which Watchmen has, but isn't full of.
That's my opinion. To each his own though.
SlasherIncorporated 10 months ago
@SlasherIncorporated I went into it expecting it not be anything like normal supher. movies and hated. it was kinda like SHOCK VALUE SHOCK VALUE SHOCK VALUE I thought. But, yknow, Prove Me Wrong!
100FingeredMonkey 10 months ago
From what Zack was talking about with superheros that people know and what not,
I think that's EXACTLY why some people hated Watchmen. They went into it not knowing anything about it and expecting it to be a traditional supehero movie like Spider-Man or X-Men.
SlasherIncorporated 10 months ago
@julianochoa1
And that's why the movie did so well. It stayed true to the novel.
Zack actually sticks to the source material rather than adding in his own stuff and completely changing it.
Would you want to see a completely different movie? That was absolutely nothing like the novel? No, I don't think you would.
Why do you think so many video game movies do so poorly? Because the directors and or writers always change the material.
SlasherIncorporated 10 months ago
''Tweeter..my fave'' Hah
dejakhalz 1 year ago
ahahahaa, your're a cruel one Matt.
wildblue2 1 year ago
@julianochoa1 Which of itself is amazing, considering the source.
HappiestTomato 1 year ago
wow a matt zaller interview which went somewhere ;)
nubpjuju 1 year ago
the internet is viral!
scrummyporridge 2 years ago
wtf he didnt actually do anything creatively he just copied the novel scene for scene
julianochoa1 2 years ago