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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3671159" data-attributes="member: 39593">[sblock]THREADJACK:  My grandmother was in her late teens during the Battle of Britain, Ironically she was Welsh and was sent into London where she joined one of the various programs recruiting women for I think the WLA.  She only occasionally talks a little about it when she's been drinking but it sounded fairly bad.  She was with one of the groups that documented the Death Camps during the advance across Europe.  As a historian I've tried to get her to record her memories about what happened because that entire generation will be gone so soon but she won't.  My grandfather remembers seeing cargo ships burning off the coast of Florida in sight of Daytona beach before he went and joined the British Army since America hadn't declared war yet.[/sblock]ON TOPIC:  I agree it would take a miracle for a Watchmen movie to be a success.  But if there's any time it could be done it would be now with the current events creating a resonance with the setting elements.  Now if they focused more on the conflict of a single person attempting to do good in a world dominated by soulless organizations that seem to want nothing more than drag everyone down below them rather than the genre conventions it might be more successful</blockquote>