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    Image of Little Time Bomb Little Time Bomb
    03/19/09

    In reply to David "X-Files" Nutter Directs A Super-Cyborg Movie
    It would be nice if even one of these makes it onto any kind of screen.
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    Image of Jose Fortuna Jose Fortuna
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    There were Watchmen Watches,badges, and a roleplaying game. Alan Moore talks like he was forced at gunpoint in the late 80s to sell the movie rights.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/16/09

    @Jose Fortuna: Watchmen, like most mainstream comics, was done as "work for hire"; it is wholly owned by DC Comics. That means that Moore and Gibbons had zero control over the property from the start, including merchandising and movie rights. It was this very lack of control over his creations that led to Moore's dissatisfaction with the industry in the late '80s.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    03/16/09

    @lightninglouie: So why didn't he later on join image comics?
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/16/09

    @alphanumeric1971: I imagine the whole Marvelman/Miracleman debacle has something to do with it.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    I liked the Uslan interview, nice summation of the whole Batman film/TV history.


    Moore is a broken record. STFU, you cranky old tiresome insane git.

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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/16/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: Better cranky old snake god worshipping Moore than most other "legendary" comics creators.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    why did you prominently feature a picture of the Silhouette in this article, when she isn't discussed?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/16/09

    @CodenameV: Because the movie she's in is discussed.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/16/09

    @CodenameV: And because she's hot!
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Indeed.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/16/09

    @CodenameV: Silhouette = The Boba Fett of the Watchmen film universe. Never identified by name in the movie, has maybe one line of dialogue, dies ignominiously and is forgotten by most of the viewing public.
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    03/16/09

    @CodenameV: That's what I was wondering, but she is a beautiful woman so any excuse to look at photos of her the better I suppose.
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    Image of miss_so_unknown miss_so_unknown
    03/16/09

    @lightninglouie: This is nitpicky, but Rorschach identifies Silhouette when he is breaking into Rockefeller Military Base. As he retells the fate of the Minutemen, he says that Silhouette was a "victim of her indecent lifestyle."


    That being said, I appreciate your comparison. I love Boba Fett and I love Silhouette.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/16/09

    @Benguin: Honestly, I couldn't bear to put up another Rorschach, Silk Spectre, or Dr. Manhattan image. Wanted a Watchmen image we hadn't seen a lot before.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    I like Alan Moore's work a great deal, but a two-decade tantrum about wicked ol' DC retaining the right to publish one's most famous work by continuing to publish it seems a little odd.
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    Image of UmitSea horse UmitSea horse
    03/16/09

    @Rasselas: I think it has more to do with the fact that ANY of Alan Moore's material has been horrible misconstrued by the Hollywood process. V for Vendetta may have been a modest success, but the circumstances surrounding The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would leave any person to be embittered for the rest of their lives.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    03/16/09

    @UmitSea horse: No question -- I was referring to the note that "Moore doesn't own a copy of Watchmen, or any of his other writings that he doesn't own the rights to."
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    Image of Dejanus Dejanus
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    I still really enjoyed Watchmen precisely because of it's faithfulness, though I would have liked to see Hayter's original, modernised script.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/16/09

    @Dejanus: I enjoyed the movie, but found it oddly inert compared to the comic book. The cross-cutting works better in a 3x3 panel grid than in a movie.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    call him a curmudgeon, bitter...whatever...the fact is that he's right.


    the Uslan interview is interesting...and reveals a major flaw in the thinking of Hollywood with regard to comic books - they look like they do for reasons that have nothing to do with creativity - four colour process? - 'cause it's cheap, not because that's what they wanted...

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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/16/09

    @goldfarb: Yeah, well the "comics as frozen movies" shows Uslan's lack of understanding in this regard, though it's worth pointing out that movie people tend to understand everything only in terms of other movies. There's this notion that all other mediums of storytelling are, to borrow a phrase of William Gibson's, a "grubby chrysalis" out of which the final cinematic produt is refined. (Unfortunately, since movies and TV are the dominant media today, that's how most "end-users" will experience the work of novelists and cartoonists.)
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    Image of kubrickian kubrickian
    03/16/09

    In reply to Alan Moore And Michael Uslan Talk Superhero Movies
    And so where's the part of the article where Uslan talks about Batman Begins?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/16/09

    @kubrickian: I ended up quoting the part about Burton's Batman instead... I should tweak that I guess! :)
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    Image of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface Sir Hotbod Handsomeface
    01/26/09

    In reply to Dark Knight Sequel Release Date Of 2011?
    I thought it was Batman Forever 4.
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    Image of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface Sir Hotbod Handsomeface
    01/26/09

    @Sir Hotbod Handsomeface: Batman Forever 5. Learn to count, ass.
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