Watchmen 2? Oh, FUCK no.

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kaykordeath

Meh.

If the movie had been much more financially successful than it actually was AND if this was from a more credible source I'd be more worried.

As it is, it only elicits a "meh."
 
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ElJuski said:
I was with you, Nick, until you yourself mentioned that great things can come from taking existing characters and tweaking them. Sherlock Holmes was a masterpiece itself, you know. Poe didn't really need to fuck with that, but he did.
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What does Holmes have to do with Edgar Allan Poe?


EDIT: Sorry, nevermind, didn't read the whole thread first.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Gusto said:
Oh man.

Black Lantern Rorshach.

Think about it.
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Each little piece Hurming its way along with a Ring, making shapes that only you, the victim, can perceive. Is he going to kill you as a lamp? A dog's head getting split open? A butterfly? What he seems to you, as he silently flays you, is not what he is to others. Then, just when you think the torment is over, a small, brown fedora floats over the horizon, yet another Ring nestled on the brim. This, my friend, this is your end.
 
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Zumbo Prime

Things like this always make me laugh. Not much else to do about it.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

And the reason why they didn't use the Charlton characters like the original plan was is because they would have become unusable after... i guess they where wrong...

And yes, bad sequels do affect the original work, if only by being reminded of the crappy stuff when watching the good stuff.
 
Telephius

Telephius

One problem with the Watchmen spinoffs and sequals is that Watchmen was mostly about the story and events and the characters were just the pieces in the grand game of power abuse. I somehow doubt the focus of new material will be about serious topics or issues as the main focus but will probably try to focus on the characters above the story. Basically instead of having characters to support a story you want showcase I am going to bet it will be some story to support the characters they want to sell as merchandise.


Also sequels and such can cheapen the original as well. The end of Watchmen leaves you with question of morality. Rorschach was a violent crazy man with serious social perception problems to wards women among other things, but his goal was to punish only those who deserve it and never compromise ones integrity in the face of adversity. Veidt was a cool collected highly intelligent man who wished to rid the world of war but did not care what means it took. He also failed in his egotistic goals to count for time and that he could fool people but people are prone to forgetting lessons. The story was to make people think about having and using power among others things and if they do spinoffs and such they could muddle the original if they just try to flat out answer those question for the view. Then when you try to debate on whether Rorschach was more right or Veidt with someone else and in whatever spin off some viewers could just claim whatever the spin offs decided on was right because its 'canon.'

Then again the may just do prequels and not even touch the original story but sometimes less is more and should be kept that way.
 
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Philosopher B.

They'll think twice about doing a Watchmen 2 when an angry horde of comic geeks show up and give 'em a shotgun blast to the tits in the middle of the night.

But seriously, though, who wants to read a Watchmen comic not written by Alan Moore.
 
North_Ranger

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Philosopher B. said:
They'll think twice about doing a Watchmen 2 when an angry horde of comic geeks show up and give 'em a shotgun blast to the tits in the middle of the night.
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Yes! Because Hollywood always listens to the fans! Just like when Michael Bay promised not to rape anyone's childhood with another Transformers movie!

Oh wait...
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Wait, there was a live action Transformers movie? Man, how did I miss that! I bet that shit would be off the HOOK, yo! There's no WAY they could screw that up.

I mean, an idiot would make it over two hours. A total moron would focus more on human characters. Just make it awesome car chases with giant transforming robots beating the crap out of each other and it'd be great!
 
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