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I preferred the other Dylan… Dylan Thomas…

The REAL Best Scenes in Watchmen

I think you’re mistaken, there’s no giant squid in either of them.

Ha! I’m pretty sure if Dylan ever actually wrote a comic – or even just helped plot one, Guy Ritchie-at-Virgin style – your head would explode.

Honestly, I’m just glad this movie’s out and my friends can see it. It’s going to be great to have actual conversations about it, rather than just being told, ‘you’re wrong, because the trailers look awesome and so what if you’ve, you know, actually seen it?’

Interestingly enough, the average critics’ score for the film has gone way down since the ‘embargo’ was lifted. Funny, that. Guess the film needed more Dylan.

Geez, Brian, lay off the Bob Dylan already! it’s not like he’s Quasar or something.

(Good thing Alan Moore didn’t quote Fred Van Lenthe.)

Well, Rohan, it still has a 65% fresh score on rotten tomatoes, which isn’t all that bad. And after reading through all the reviews, it seems the fan-boyish “IT’S AWESOME!” reviews are pretty well balanced out by some of the mainstream “I don’t get it, therefore it sucks” reviews, leaving the middle of the road, “slightly better than average” viewpoint to reign supreme. And that’s exactly what I’ll be expecting when I see it tomorrow – a slightly better than average, somewhat flawed but mostly faithful, adaption of a great graphic novel.

I will also be curious to find out if Brian’s head explodes during the opening montage set to Dylan’s “The Times They Are A’ Changing” …. but I guess I will just have to check back here later to find out about that one.

The quotes were indeed in the original issues as well. The quote from chapter two (“Absent Friends”) is from an Elvis Costello song (“The Comedians”), which prompted me to buy the album it was on–”Goodbye Cruel World,” his (as he himself later admitted) worst album. Oh well.

The quotes were in the original issues, yes, but issue 1 didn’t have an individual title until the trade.

What about: http://scavgraphics.deviantart.com/art/Watchmen-2-Electric-Boogaloo-114886763

(yeah, I be pimpin’…what of it?:)

I summon the Dylan -squid connection

http://www.squidoo.com/song-lyrics-by-bob-dylan

“(Good thing Alan Moore didn’t quote Fred Van Lenthe.)”

Was FVL even born when the Watchmen came out?

Has there ever been a character called Zimmer-man?

Yeah, where’s the love for Ron Zimmerman?

“I will also be curious to find out if Brian’s head explodes during the opening montage set to Dylan’s “The Times They Are A’ Changing” …. but I guess I will just have to check back here later to find out about that one.”

Ha! The montage was one of my favourite bits in the movie, even if the song was a little too obvious – maybe Brian’s Dylan love is contagious?

Out of everything that will be lost in the movie version, for me the great loss will be chapter titles. Watchmaker, A Brother to Dragons, Absent Friends, The Abyss Also Gazes, The Judge of all the World. The fact they they’ve all stuck in my head, and I’m sure many others, I think shows how deft and poignant they were.

Ted i was thing along similar lines though I ‘d like to go a step further and say hat I wish the the movie was divided into chapters. I thought it worked great in Kill Bill.

Zimmer-Man was actually a satiric comic in the National Lampoon back when it was actually a funny print magazine, rather than a massive warning sign appended to various horrible comedy movies.

Yeah I agree Rob, but the problem might be that 12 chapters is too much for one movie. Each Kill Bill movie was only divided into like 3 parts right, it’s been a while since I’ve watched it. Of course they could have divided into more than one movie, but even though they did it for Quentin Tarantino I’d doubt they’d do it for Zack Snyder. Of course in an ideal world we’d have a 12 part TV series, but I don’t think that they could get the budget on TV to do the story justice.

Bob Dylan’s a douche, according to Kenny Hotz

Saw Dylan play Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, 1987. A forty-five minute set, no encore, no banter at all. He was late coming on too and Timbukthree were the opening act. (Their ‘hit’ was “My Future’s So Bright, I gotta Wear Shades”)

Also saw dog carcass in alley, tire tread on burst stomach. And broke this man’s little finger. Hurm.

Best scene in Watchmen is the last panel.

I don’t know, Ted. I don’t think you’d need a huge budget for a Watchmen miniseries. None of the parts requiring special effects seem any more difficult than what was achieved years ago on programs like Farscape and Star Trek. Hell, I’d even be fine with an old-school Doctor Who level of production- provided the direction and acting were superb.

Oh, and I found your insight on the meaning of “fetish” in the Watchmen context to be very clarifying.

-Citizen Scribbler

“I don’t think you’d need a huge budget for a Watchmen miniseries.”

Yeah, that’s a good point, I may have been overly pessimistic. I was thinking not just of special effects but also things like set design, all the detail required to recreate 1985, although the guys on Life on Mars seem to have done a pretty good job. The other problem is that production companies may be reluctant to invest as much in a 12 part miniseries that open ended series like Star Trek, were special effects can be more easily reused. That being said, perhaps there is hope yet. We can keep our fingers crossed.

Of course my ultimate dream would be a 10 episode remake of From Hell made on location with a British cast, but that may be going too far.

My head almost exploded when I heard the My Chemical Romance cover on “Desolation Row,” but not in a good way. You know that giant squid in the comic that drives people crazy and destroys New York City? Kind of like that.

Yeah, Mike, that was…not so pleasant.

I get the idea of not wanting to be seen as an imitation of the original, but damn, that was a bad cover version.