Watchmen getting episodic games on PC, PS3, 360

This is a dumb move. Go read the book and come back and bitch with me.

You can't possibly fit all that there is in Watchmen into 3 hours. Can't be done without butchering it. Snyder is garbage, so he'll just make this an action movie so bad that it'll give Alan Moore a heart attack.

Of course it's not going to live up to the book, what movie can? They're two completely different medias. BUT, the movie looks like a GOOD movie. While you're on your couch bitching about life, I'll be enjoying Rorschach kick some ass.

@Vegnagun bwf
Oh no!! You mean it wont be a carbon copy replication of the book that myself and many others have read time and time again so that I can predict every single line and action in the movie!?! I don't go to the movies to be entertained sir! I go to see a moving version of the exact same thing I have already seen the ending too 100's of times!

Enough. You sound like all the people who complained about the LOTR movies not being exactly like the books. I already read that story. I'm there to be entertained, not taking notes about inconsistencies so I can rush home and complain about them all on the internet.

I don't care about it being a carbon copy of the book. I care about a good book turning into a crappy action flick for mindless action buffs.

You go enjoy "Rorschach kick some ass".

Vegnagun: You're not familiar with the word "adaptation", are you?

I've read the comics. Best miniseries ever. The movie still looks awesome.

Alan Moore bitches and complains about everything. He's a decrepit old hippy. That's what they do. He may be a genius when it comes to writing comics, but that appears to be the extent of it.

Vegnagun: How about you watch the movie first before you give yourself an aneurysm, k?

The guy with the Rorchach avatar is excited about the movie, you should be too. Though I'm not sure why Joystiq picked the corny YouTube preview picture over a decent shot of Rorchach.

I agree completely. Punch-kick-shoot has absolutely nothing to do with Watchmen. There are a million other comic franchises where this would be appropriate, I do not understand why they have to debase Watchmen by making an action game out of it.

I am not up-to-date on the licensing shenanigans here. Is Alan Moore completely powerless to stop this sort of thing?

Since he took his name off of anything related to the movie? Yes he is powerless.

Ya, I see what you did there...

That was actually pretty good right there.

Amen. The trailer kind of irks me with it's slow motion action shots... I can't imagine how angry I'll be after seeing footage from the game.

This IS NOT a superhero blockbuster like Batman or Superman. There's no need for a tie in game.

If you actually read interviews with Snyder, he's a huge fan of the novel. Don't think this is going to be another 300, simply because the way the trailer looks. You'll get a very good idea of how faithful the movie is going to be when he shows it at Comic-Con.

And if you don't think one of the most celebrated graphic novels ever is worthy of movie blockbuster status, than what is?

Snyder can't read, so don't give me that crap. He's going to bog down Watchmen with fighting and slow-mo.

@ck: I think we have different definitions of 'blockbuster.' For me it's not really a positive label. When I think of blockbusters, I think of stuff starring Will Smith with 4 billion dollars of CGI.

@Veg Not sure where your Snyder hate is coming from. 300 was pretty much a shot for shot recreation of Frank Millar's original. If you didn't like the action and violence of it then you wouldn't like the original books.

As for this, everything we see in that Watchmen trailer is lifted directly from the book. He's even using a lot of Gibbons' framing and angles. At least it will be better than V for Vendetta.

I'm not neccesarily convinced he's going to 'shit all over it for money'. Looking at the trailer, I see a great many scenes that are visually strikingly true to the original comic - ahem, forgive me: graphic novel.

I'm sceptical about what appears to be Ozymandias in costume, but willing to cut them some slack because Dr. Manhattan looks just facking amazing.

If you stop and think about it, there's a fair share of raw violence in Watchmen. Naturally there's going to be more of it in a movie, that's just life. People go to the movies to see fights and action. That doesn't mean the movie's going to suck AND rape Alan Moore at the same time (though I'm pretty sure he'll hate it regardless of how good it turns out, lol). LoTR had way more action in the movie adaptations than in the books (which I've read several times), but I enjoyed all 3 flicks regardless.

I never read 300 in comic form, but I did quite enjoy the movie. And from what I've seen so far - which ISN'T much so far I admit - they do appear to treat Watchmen seriously. Anyway, even if they are forced by the studio to cut down the movie for theatres, there'll be a 3+ hour bluray version later and it will be way cool I'm sure. :P

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was terrible.
But V for Vendetta was actually kind of good.

Alan Moore himself is incredibly overrated, and he certainly is a pretentious crybaby. But Watchmen is amazing anyway. :P Kind of like how Frank Miller sucks all kinds of ass, but Sin City is good.

Meh. Alan Moore's a genius IMO. V for Vendetta and Watchmen are well and truly masterpieces in the world of comics. He may be a complete weirdo nutter in real life (and reading his Wikipedia page that does seem to be the case, lol), but he does have talent. A lot of it.

Frank Miller was at his best in the 80s IMO. Ronin, Dark Knight Returns, Batman Year One, Give Me Liberty - those are his best, and he's never surpassed any of them in my eyes. And they're awesome as well.

Not possible in America, because you can see a man's penis in it.