Will I watch Watchmen?
The Bloated Penguin | February 27, 2009
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I’m sure most of you have seen the trailers, read the articles and pretty much followed the story behind the creation of Zac Snyder’s Watchmen film. They promote more than the US armed forces and have spent over 100 Million bucks on the damn thing already. Also, if you live in Vancouver you might have noticed the shoot last year taking place all over downtown.
I’m not a big Snyder fan. I thought 300 was cool to look at for like 5 minutes, then it felt a little too much like a really long opening to gay porn (not that I would know what one of those would be like… seriously…), much in the same way Ultimate Fighting is really just a televised sausage swinging fest. But back to Snyder – is he the man for the job?

Cinema or porn?
I think so and it’s not because of his “skill,” or his “stylized way of shooting a film,” Zack Snyder is the perfect person to make the Watchmen because he’s been set for failure and nobody would really care if he crashed and burned.
As a comic, Watchmen is probably one of the strongest in history. I’m not kidding – you can quote me on that. But as a story, as an experience for a reader – the Watchmen is an untouchable entity. The outcry from Alan Moore (creator and writer of the original) himself should be proof enough that the adaptation shouldn’t happen.
So will I watch the Watchmen? Probably – but not because I’m hoping to see the brilliance of Moore’s story on screen – I’m mostly interested in seeing if Snyder is actually a director – or if he’s Michael Bay’s adopted kid brother….


















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