Okay, so i thought I'd start with one of my favorite adaptations, "Watchmen". Now I think this is a pretty good adaptation, a lot of it is as if it's straight from the graphic novel (Here's a nice little video Illustrating my point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONqFE1x23w ) But It still remains new and interesting to those familiar with the graphic novel. I mean the only bad points I can see is that A) It seemed to be advertised as an action movie (One of the trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU ) when the majority of the plot is about morality est, and B), one or two parts were left out and the ending was changed, however you're always gonna need to shorten the story when adapting it to a movie, when interviewed by About.com ( http://movies.about.com/od/watchmen/a/watchmen072807.htm ) Director Zack Snyder said:
People have labeled Watchmen as unfilmable. How hard is it to make Alan Moore's story into a feature film?
“The truth is the graphic novel as a verbatim shot-for-shot version, is that filmable? Of course it’s filmable. It’s a six and a half hour movie. You can do that. Is there anyone who will pay the $200,000,000 to do that? Probably not. My job is to try and distill the movie down. Like I say, we’re not inventing anything. We’re just trying to get the movie [to a decent length]. The script’s still 140 pages long. It’s not like a flimsy little document. It’s not a brochure - it’s fricking phonebook.”
And to be honest although the ending is different in one aspect, It doesn't really make any difference, the main point and key events of the films final scenes are still the same, the point of the film is still intact.
I feel this is a film that could certainly make into our Top 10 movie adaptations.
