maybe my memory … maybe my memory isnt what it used to be, but wasnt there another superhero movie that came out over 10 years before batman 89?….oh yeah it was Superman
I think it’s easier … I think it’s easier for someone to an accurate adaptation of The Watchmen than X-men since the The Watchmen was done once. Marvel has reset it’s stuff several times. It’s early incarnations of The X-Men showed them off as a bunch of good guys, Wolverine is the only one that’s got some grit to him.
Spider-Man did make a difference in the genre of comic books, the movie just showed how successful graphic novel adaptations can be.
Hi there in … Hi there in response to your comment i am reffering to the fact that these guys are saying that other superhero movies have tried to make a diffrence in the genre xmen, batman ect yet this video is obviously trying to compare them to watchmen and if you read the reviews saying how accurate of an adaption this film is to the novel then it is almost a certainty it will do the job on making people think in alternative ways regarding superheros (hence reinvent the genre). my opinion anyway..peace
You’ve got that all … You’ve got that all wrong, Jester18uk, ya see you’re basing that last part of your declaration off of movies, which indicates you don’t know what you’re talking about and don’t go on about not having to read the comics. I would go reading it from the Byrne/Claremont era.
im sorry ITN but … im sorry ITN but you guys obviously have no idear what your talking about! how can you compare WATCHMEN with XMEN one is good guy vs bad guy story were as the other is a very deep multiplex plot so much going on and asks the question ..what is a superhero? does it reinvent the genre i say yes!!!!
yeah i see what you … yeah i see what you mean. i agree with you about the yellow part of the story. i felt like in a way, it was rushed.
i haven’t seen the spirit but i didn’t hear anything good about it lol. the spirit is another one i didn’t hear about until the movie was coming out so i know very little about it. we’ll see how that makes me feel when i do see the movie
i didnt say that i … i didnt say that i didnt enjoy it…i thought it was a brilliant experiment
but “that yellow ” was written to be episodic, and it plays out much better when spread over months…not minutes
the worst thing that came out of that movie, is that miller fancied himself a director, which led him to totally trash the spirit…for that, i can never forgive him
i love x-men and … i love x-men and spiderman and all the rest, but let’s just face it. watchmen is really in a league of it’s own here. it’s hard for me to compare it to other comic book series just because it feels and is so much deeper than that, so much richer than the rest somehow. watchmen isn’t trying to redefine anything. it’s just being it’s completely original self and that’s why i respect it so much
i agree with you. … i agree with you. the movie wasn’t perfect,but it’s very enjoyable. i was hugely entertained by it and i really did enjoy the marv storyline alot, but i enjoyed the others as well. i’d never read the graphic novel before watching the film, so i was just able to accept the film for what it was. still a very good watch, you must say
he was talking from … he was talking from a perspective of the movies that actually changed the way we looked at a particular story. until 1989 or 90..whenever batman came out with keaton and nicholson, batman was campy and rather goofy, comedic even. but when that movie was released, it was the total flipside of what people knew of batman from the original movie and tv series. that tim burton film paved the way for the the more recent reboot.
Movies based on … Movies based on comic books are awesome… I can’t wait for the Green Hornet to come out! If you like movies like this then you should check out Michel Gondry’s “TOKYO!”
Excuse me, but I’m … Excuse me, but I’m wondering why the recent batmans, or , batman and robin (that is a classic example of the pitfalls of cinema heroes) and the fact that superman wasn’t mentioned at all - What the ! I don’t see how the Hulk or Spiderman ’shook up’ the on screen genre in any way - the fact is movie makers now rely on comics to attempt to create a blockbuster, but they usually end up with complete failures. Here’s hoping watchmen will show them how comic movies should be made!
that yellow worked much better as a serialized story, where one had to wait a month between chapters, so the buildup to who the yellow really was worked much better
the section that worked the best was marv….mostly because of rourke
*sigh* there’s a … *sigh* there’s a difference between comic book (serial) vs. graphic novel (often one-shots)
these journalists are tools
Oh yeah and Watchmen rulez. Alan Moore is a god among writers.
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Watchmen’s heading for cinemas, claiming it’s reinventing the comic book genre, but it’s not the first film to say that. 
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watchman was in …
watchman was in long boring and lame in many respects, many left before it was even half over.
maybe my memory …
maybe my memory isnt what it used to be, but wasnt there another superhero movie that came out over 10 years before batman 89?….oh yeah it was Superman
I think it’s easier …
I think it’s easier for someone to an accurate adaptation of The Watchmen than X-men since the The Watchmen was done once. Marvel has reset it’s stuff several times. It’s early incarnations of The X-Men showed them off as a bunch of good guys, Wolverine is the only one that’s got some grit to him.
Spider-Man did make a difference in the genre of comic books, the movie just showed how successful graphic novel adaptations can be.
Hi there in …
Hi there in response to your comment i am reffering to the fact that these guys are saying that other superhero movies have tried to make a diffrence in the genre xmen, batman ect yet this video is obviously trying to compare them to watchmen and if you read the reviews saying how accurate of an adaption this film is to the novel then it is almost a certainty it will do the job on making people think in alternative ways regarding superheros (hence reinvent the genre). my opinion anyway..peace
You’ve got that all …
You’ve got that all wrong, Jester18uk, ya see you’re basing that last part of your declaration off of movies, which indicates you don’t know what you’re talking about and don’t go on about not having to read the comics. I would go reading it from the Byrne/Claremont era.
im sorry ITN but …
im sorry ITN but you guys obviously have no idear what your talking about! how can you compare WATCHMEN with XMEN one is good guy vs bad guy story were as the other is a very deep multiplex plot so much going on and asks the question ..what is a superhero? does it reinvent the genre i say yes!!!!
yeah i see what you …
yeah i see what you mean. i agree with you about the yellow part of the story. i felt like in a way, it was rushed.
i haven’t seen the spirit but i didn’t hear anything good about it lol. the spirit is another one i didn’t hear about until the movie was coming out so i know very little about it. we’ll see how that makes me feel when i do see the movie
i didnt say that i …
i didnt say that i didnt enjoy it…i thought it was a brilliant experiment
but “that yellow ” was written to be episodic, and it plays out much better when spread over months…not minutes
the worst thing that came out of that movie, is that miller fancied himself a director, which led him to totally trash the spirit…for that, i can never forgive him
i love x-men and …
i love x-men and spiderman and all the rest, but let’s just face it. watchmen is really in a league of it’s own here. it’s hard for me to compare it to other comic book series just because it feels and is so much deeper than that, so much richer than the rest somehow. watchmen isn’t trying to redefine anything. it’s just being it’s completely original self and that’s why i respect it so much
i agree with you. …
i agree with you. the movie wasn’t perfect,but it’s very enjoyable. i was hugely entertained by it and i really did enjoy the marv storyline alot, but i enjoyed the others as well. i’d never read the graphic novel before watching the film, so i was just able to accept the film for what it was. still a very good watch, you must say
he was talking from …
he was talking from a perspective of the movies that actually changed the way we looked at a particular story. until 1989 or 90..whenever batman came out with keaton and nicholson, batman was campy and rather goofy, comedic even. but when that movie was released, it was the total flipside of what people knew of batman from the original movie and tv series. that tim burton film paved the way for the the more recent reboot.
Agreed.
Agreed.
The ignorance shown …
The ignorance shown in this clip is staggering.
what!? jack …
what!? jack nicholson? what happend to dark knight, the heath ledger as joker? classic villain.
Movies based on …
Movies based on comic books are awesome… I can’t wait for the Green Hornet to come out! If you like movies like this then you should check out Michel Gondry’s “TOKYO!”
The only recent …
The only recent films that’d I’d say “re-invented” anything were Batman Begins + The Dark Knight.
Rest (spiderman, hulk, x-men) were just family or teenager movies.
Watchmen is rated R, and if it’s half what the book is it will kick as much as the Dark Knight, in my opinion.
Excuse me, but I’m …
Excuse me, but I’m wondering why the recent batmans, or , batman and robin (that is a classic example of the pitfalls of cinema heroes) and the fact that superman wasn’t mentioned at all - What the ! I don’t see how the Hulk or Spiderman ’shook up’ the on screen genre in any way - the fact is movie makers now rely on comics to attempt to create a blockbuster, but they usually end up with complete failures. Here’s hoping watchmen will show them how comic movies should be made!
far from perfect
…
far from perfect
that yellow worked much better as a serialized story, where one had to wait a month between chapters, so the buildup to who the yellow really was worked much better
the section that worked the best was marv….mostly because of rourke
*sigh* there’s a …
*sigh* there’s a difference between comic book (serial) vs. graphic novel (often one-shots)
these journalists are tools
Oh yeah and Watchmen rulez. Alan Moore is a god among writers.
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Sin City wasn’t a …
Sin City wasn’t a great film? WHAT? Are you on crack? The movie was better than great, it was f**kin’ PERFECT
sin city showed …
sin city showed that a comic book could be directly translated to the screen
but it wasnt a great film…just a great experiment
RE INVENTED THE …
RE INVENTED THE super hero MOVIE? . .. .. . RE INVENTED Super Heroes ! ( as the man would say) nuff said!
No love for the …
No love for the movies that started it all?
Superman? 1970’s? o?
funny he didnt …
funny he didnt mention dark knight? crap reviewer
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