Watchmen - Just How Bad Will It Be ? I have little faith that any director can take any of Alan Moore's work and bring it to the big screen with any degree of success. Moore's writing / graphic novels are just too plot heavy, too complex, just too intelligent really for Holywood to be able to do anything with them. I am struggling to think of any of the more adult themed comic book adaptations that have been really good, Constantine was a huge, steaming pile of shite (starring huge steaming pile of chopped liver Keanu Reaves), V For Vendetta, for me at least, just did not work as a movie, League Of Extraordinary Gentleman was rather so so, From Hell pretty much ignored the whole novel it was taken from and then added a load of salacious tosh about drug taking, even Johnny Depp couldn't save it. It goes almost without saying that Alan Moore wishes to have nothing whatsoever to do with the film project, Dave Gibbons though supports the movie and has visited the film set. Zakk Snyder is directing, so what does his CV look like ? Oh dear, well it contains the quite bland remake of Dawn Of The Dead, and 300, which was a good film if you like arty violence and homo-erotic overtones, but neither of those really show that Snyder will be able to get to grips with the subtleties of Watchmen. As the pictures show, everything in the film looks like Watchmen the comic, but looks can deceiving. Take a look at Silk Spectre's costume for example, do you think that this is one of the images that is going to be used to promote the film ? Sex sells of course, but Watchmen was not a comic book based on how sexy it's male or female characters were. The hero / anti-hero, depending on your point of view, Rorshach is probably the least sexy superhero of all time. Compare the film stills with the original Sally Jupitas / Silk Spectre as drawn by Dave Gibbons..... They are both sexy, but Gibbon's origianl artwork retains some sense of restraint whilst the Zakk Snyder film version of Silk Spectre looks downright kinky / pervy. The filming of Watchmen has been pretty much completed and the movie has a provisional release date for March 6th 2009. So you have 11 months of me moaning on about it before the film comes out, it won't stop me going to see it of course, there's nothing like wallowing in your own misery ;-)