The new Harry Potter trailer came out this week. Sure, I'm excited for it, but I find the movies feeling stranger with all the kids outgrowing their character's ages. The trailer didn't even show a single one of the main Hogwarts students, leading me to believe my fear that they look completely too old for their parts now is correct.
For me, the most exciting trailer out right now is the Watchmen trailer. I am not as excited as true graphic novel fans, as I only started reading a few graphic novels in the past year, but Watchmen
The trend of recently released movies made from graphic novels include 300 and V for Vendetta (which I absolutely loved the movie of, but tried to read the graphic novel for and found it very different). It's looking like Watchmen should blow them all away. If you're someone who enjoys reading the book before watching the movie, I would definitely recommend picking up a copy of Watchmen
Already read Watchmen and excited for the movie yourself? Did you know that Rorschach can be found in the 300 trailer? Another half a year to wait, but I'm already psyched.
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I enjoyed V for Vendetta but did some reading afterwards and I guess the original author sold the rights long ago and had no say in the movie. They kind of americanized it (even though it is an English author) and changed the underlying theme of the movie. The theme of anarchy (the political viewpoint, which I had to look up to learn more about...) was replaced entirely. Not at all the story the author wrote.
Yeah, the story and the themes are definitely different. I may have enjoyed the graphic novel better had I read it before the movie, but the dialogue in the movie was also far better than the dialogue in the graphic novel, IMHO.
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