The phrase “you never get a second chance to make a first impression” isn’t just ad copy for Head and Shoulders anymore … apparently it’s the mantra of comic book adaptations, too! Watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine over the weekend, we couldn’t help but notice that the most exciting, creative and downright awesome part of the Read More
We have to wonder if Warner Brothers is having a bit of buyers remorse on Sucker Punch, the next film from “visionary director” Zack Snyder. Even before Watchmen was released, it seemed like a dicey proposition for the studio to get behind: an R-rated, $100 million, 1950s-set action film that Mr. Snyder has described as Read More
If it feels like all you’ve done this week is read stories about Watchmen, that’s probably because you have. But don’t worry! By Monday morning, the suspense will be over and the whole world will know who actually watched the … well, you know. Projections for the opening weekend have been all over Read More
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should be upfront about my feelings on the whole Watchmen hullabaloo: I wanted no part of it (and not just because I used to cohabitate with a seriously rabid Watchmen fan … you know the kind who keeps the book by the bedside table, babbling about dystopia and Read More
Damon Lindelof, executive producer and co-creator of ABC’s Lost, had a recent conversation with his personal trainer about Watchmen, Zack Snyder’s film adaptation of the much-beloved (and complicated!) 1986 original comic-book series that will be released in theaters tomorrow. “Have you heard of this Watchmen thing? What is it?” his trainer asked. “Little does Read More
On March 6, under protest from the original writer; after a public legal battle with Fox studios; and amid relentless fanboy hand-wringing, Warner Bros. will finally release its film adaptation of Watchmen, the 1986 comic book series written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and collected in a slick book by DC Read More
Like the rest of you, we’ll be watching The Watchmen next weekend, though, truth be told, the whole experience is starting to feel a bit like homework.
The early reviews have been split down the middle, with the fanboys drooling (spoiler alert: Harry Knowles loved it!) and the real critics meeting the film with Read More
That sound you hear rumbling in the background isn’t your CPU tower about to explode from overuse (seriously, you should think about turning your office computer off when you go home), it’s the geek stampede about to unleash itself over Watchmen. We’re nearly two weeks away from Zack Snyder’s “visionary” take on the groundbreaking Alan Moore Read More
The year is only five days old and we’ve already found the statement that will be our bête noir for 2009: from the visionary director of. To be fair, this unhappy turn of events started last year with the trailer for Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen, which proclaimed with soul-crushing gravitas that the film Read More
David Kirkpatrick has a piece in The New York Times today about the impact John McCain’s five books have had on his self-image and political identity. The McCain we know today, Mr. Kirkpatrick writes, is one that came into existence around 1999, when he and his longtime speechwriter, Mark Salter, wrote his memoir, Faith Read More
