It doesn’t matter how talented a director they get, the next Twilight movie can’t be any good if they crank it out less than a year after the first one. It’s just a cash cow.

That sounds like what many people say about Harlan Ellison and City on the Edge of Forever! I don’t blame Moore one bit for condemning the film without seeing it. He’s been right about all the previous awful attempts at translating his works to film and he’s ultimately right about this one. Truth is, DC Comics holds the rights to many of his works and Moore can’t stop Hollywood from raiding the toybox. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Horribly ruined by Hollywood. From Hell? Ditto. V For Vendetta? Same thing. Even Constantine was based on a character Moore originally created for his Swamp Thing comics and that movie was equally terrible.

I’m glad you enjoyed the film but don’t diminish its’ creator because he doesn’t want to see it. His distaste for Hollywood comes from many unpleasant experiences. He’s not even doing interviews or anything condemning the film, he’s simply distancing himself from it.

I did find Nite Owl II rather Batman-like, to be sure, and as someone said, his tiptop physical condition (and SS II’s, for that matter) didn’t seem to fit in with the superheroes-on-the-wane plotline that the rest of the movie conveyed. Also, I do agree that Veidt might have been somewhat miscast.

However, the movie itself was enjoyable enough.

Hell, with all this talk about the movie, I just might see it again, after all.

These days, Alan Moore is a bitter old troll with an axe to grind against Hollywood and DC Comics. He hasn’t seen a single frame of Watchmen, condemning the whole project before a single scene was shot. So his “opinions” about movie he knows nothing about mean absolutely nothing. If he had any decency, integrity or plain common sense, he would at least see the movie (I’m sure he could score a free copy so he wouldn’t even need to dirty himself by paying for it) before dismissing it.

I saw it last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was an entertaining and visually striking film with some great performances (even the film’s detractors have lauded Jackie Earle Haley’s Rorschach) that was also very very faithful to the book. While certain parts were omitted and the end was changed slightly, those alterations in no way affected the film’s tone and underlying themes and messages, which all translated successfully from the original source. It is slow at times and it does juggle a lot of characters and subplots, but it is accessible, even to those who haven’t read the comic.

Sometime I do too. I’m still kind of peeved that Brad Bird or somebody at Pixar for not giving credit to Marvel, even in an interview, for what were very clearly Marvel inspired ideas in “The Incredibles. Bird claims to have never read comics. If they do go the Ultimates rout I’ll say, blech, yuch, pooey. Ultimates, my foot.

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If that’s true then that’s another example of doing something your heart’s not in and it not turning out well. Had so many good elements. Chiklis was great.

Or how about filming “Lucifer’s Hammer”?