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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4677910" data-attributes="member: 32740">One more time - movies are different forms of art, different forms of entertainment than books, etc.&nbsp; They share some elements but ultimately MUST conform to their own limitations, must live up to their own potential - not match the potential of another art form.&nbsp;Of course the movie will fail at being everything that the original comics are.&nbsp; If that's what they were really trying to achieve it would DESERVE to fail because it couldn't possibly succeed at being another art form entirely.&nbsp; But it can use that original material as elements to make an enormously effective, entertaining movie that stands as an artistic acheivement in its own right.&nbsp;That's why I want to see it - not because it looks like it is a perfect replication of everything that Watchmen originally was, but because it looks like a great movie in its own right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 4677910, member: 32740"] One more time - movies are different forms of art, different forms of entertainment than books, etc. They share some elements but ultimately MUST conform to their own limitations, must live up to their own potential - not match the potential of another art form. Of course the movie will fail at being everything that the original comics are. If that's what they were really trying to achieve it would DESERVE to fail because it couldn't possibly succeed at being another art form entirely. But it can use that original material as elements to make an enormously effective, entertaining movie that stands as an artistic acheivement in its own right. That's why I want to see it - not because it looks like it is a perfect replication of everything that Watchmen originally was, but because it looks like a great movie in its own right. [/QUOTE]

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