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“November the 5th”
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November the Gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why the Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.”
Watchmen, Хранители
На персонажа Роршаха на удивление удачно ложится Кровосток.
The character of Rorschach is surprisingly successful in getting a Krovostok. EN: Many people do not know at all what they are doing on this planet. And I know for sure - in this sense, I do them all. It is necessary to defeat every enemy to the f*cking death.
In my opinion, this is the very BEST Alan Moore ending in his entire body of work. 100%
Do you think Batman killed The Joker? Or did he have him sent back to Arkham?
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore.
A story originally created to serve as a warning of what could possibly arise from the Thatcherite government of the 1980s, V for Vendetta has stood the test of time as one of the premier works of the comic book medium. A story that tells a tale of tyranny and the valiant effort made to thwart it that's as timeless as it is harrowing.
Gotta say, I think this is a great movie. But I wouldn't say it's the best adaptation. As great of a film as it is, it is emotionally draining and it's not something that I would consider watching repeatedly. I just can't get my head around Watchmen being two or three hours long. I always felt like the series depends on an almost-miniseries build-up.
No, it doesn't bother me at all that the Extra-Dimensional Biological Entity is not in it (however, if that bothers you, I understand, and you have my sympathies). The one change that bothered me was how they changed Rorschach's origin scene, because the filmmakers felt that it was way too similar to the climax of the first Saw movie, and my feeling on that is that Rorschach's origin was already a rip-off of Mad Max's origin. So why is this an issue now? Other than that, I really enjoyed this film.
As much as I don't like Zack Snyder, I can't deny that he is a brilliant visual creator and everything in the trailer seemed right, if not completely spot-on. To be totally honest, I even geeked out a little when I first saw it.
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Promethea - Alan Moore
Maybe I was just at the wrong age when I finally began reading them, but I never got into LoEG, and I think a lot of the above explains why. Heck, I’m still steamed over what Moore did with the Maschinenmensch (a.k.a. “false Maria) in The Roses of Berlin.
What do you dislike about league of extraordinary gentlemen?
Short answer: What I dislike about the comic is the same thing comic fans disliked about the movie- it turned my favorite characters into caricatures.
Long answer:
Make up your mind, Alan Moore- is the League okay with rape or not? It’s horrifying when Hyde or Bond do it, but they first come across the Invisible Man in the process of raping children and basically laugh it off.
Bull-freaking-shit would Jonathan dump Mina over having ugly scars. If you really needed to get him out of the way to hook Mina up with your preferred guy, why not just kill him off and have Mina angst over his death Gwen Stacy-style?
If Jonathan did ever dump Mina for her scars, Van Helsing would be waiting outside the house with a baseball bat (for Jonathan’s kneecaps) and a bouquet of flowers (in case Mina wanted to trade up.)
Why did Mina fall in love with Alan Quartermain? I’m not opposed to younger woman/older man pairings, but…why? Some amount of looks can be traded for some amount of personality or vice versa, but Quartermain as written by Moore had neither.
Why did Moore’s idea of “strong female character” mean “take a woman who was canonically kind and make her a straw feminist ice queen”?
If Jekyll became Hyde because he was ashamed of being gay, then why the everloving hell was Hyde into women?
People Alan Moore cannot do pastiches of: Shakespeare, P.G. Woodehouse, Jack Kerouac.
Pirate Jenny canonically (insofar as a throwaway song is canon) became murderous over doing humiliating menial work. This was not enough for Alan Moore- she had to be raped, because that’s the only possible reason a woman would become a supervillain.
Since he’d already made her Indian, if he wanted her to have additional motivation to be mad, couldn’t it have been about racism?
I don’t like what he did with James Bond, but defending James Bond really isn’t the hill I want to die on. Suffice it to say that it felt mean-spirited.
Speaking of mean-spirited, what does Alan Moore have against Harry Potter and Peter Rabbit?
If you’re going to write a series of comics that amount to “look how much better I am than these other sexist, racist authors!” then your comic should be 1) actually better, and 2) not sexist or racist.
Neil Gaiman goes on about how the movie adaptation was the first time everyone agreed the movie sucked and the comic was great, and it annoys me because I *don’t* agree that the comic was great.
In fact, that’s a big part of why it all pisses me off- I feel like I’m supposed to love this comic. I spent years trying to love this comic. I do not love this comic.
Now, do I think you can do this kind of critique well? Yes, and I’ll point to a series I love, Jane Carver of Waar. An expy of John Carter of Mars shows up in the second book as the villain, and poorly handled it could have felt like a snide “fuck you to all my predecessors in this genre.” As written, though, it was “isn’t it fucked up that John Carter of Mars owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy?” This works because it is a valid point. It is fucked up that John Carter of Mars owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy.
League, on the other hand, is like going “It’s it fucked up that John Carter of Mars ate children?” It’s not a valid point, and it just makes me go “But…he didn’t?”