![]() ![]() The film may just be in the unenviable position of seeming derivative of works that owe their success, at least in part, to the story that inspired it. The film has been a long time in the making, and many have been waiting decades to see it on the other hand, it is arriving in the middle of a veritable plague of superhero films, several of them dark and edgy enough that they can claim to have been influenced by the original version of Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986-87 limited comic series. This Friday, several million extremely obsessed people will be heading eagerly to theatres to catch the opening of Jack Snyder’s Watchmen, a movie that several million other people who are not at all obsessed will probably be rolling their eyes at and calling “yet another superhero flick.”īoth reactions are understandable. The Devil is in the Details: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen ![]()
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