The question that almost kills is what does a newbie blogger blog about. He wants the blog to start on the right subject and the right note to attract the right kind of readers. I would rather write something that I hope to attract any readers at all to begin with. This is turning out to be more of a meta-blog. I really thought I would write about movies but nothing came out recently that deserves a truly special mention.
Too many people have ranted about how Danny Boyle's Slumdog millionaire took the growing, gleaming, superpowered , financially stabilizing, technologically advancing face of India and splattered all over it the dehumanizing, impoverished and fetid details from the mumbai slums and worse, packaged it into a typical commercial hindi cinema well one third hindi and brought in international accolades.
Another movie in recent times that made me raise an eyebrow of interest was Zack Snyder's Watchmen. The trailers were very slick, Although I was more curious to understand what prompted Zack Snyder to take on probably THE most difficult comic book adaptation ever. He probably failed to realize that he was digging a bigger hole for himself than the one into which Leonidas kicks the Persian messenger. In all fairness, Snyder faithfully captured the three dimensional painted panels of the comic book but completely failed to capture all the other dimensions that Moore had so deftly interwoven in the comic series. For me as a true Watchmen fan it was a bit of a disappointment but that was expected and I wasn't surprised.
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I don't know how you presume to speak on behalf of all fans of Watchmen when you dismiss the film as a 'complete failure' without citing any reasons whatsoever.
You can never capture 'every nuance' of a book on the big screen- they are completely different media.
As it is, the film weighs in at a hefty 3 hours, this was after excluding the subplot about the pirate story, and glossing over Rorschach's capture and interrogation among other things.
I would say Snyder has done a surprisingly good job of translating such a difficult project to the big screen- mind you,Alan Moore did not give this his blessing and was against filming it for the same reason- that he made it to show what could be done with comics, and that was that.
The movie is no Dark Knight- but then again Watchmen isn't as well known as Batman either. Many people don't see a distinction between regular comics and graphic novels.
This is a niche movie based on a graphic novel- at a time when graphic novels are not quite mainstream.
And considering that, it was pretty well made, without too much given over to conventional Hollywood stereotypes.
With regard to blogging, I have a suggestion for you- don't start writing from day one with the objective to attract readers. Write about things you personally find interesting,not just because everyone else is talking about them- because that doesn't differentiate you in any way.
Of course, it also helps to spread word about your blog through your friends, or including it in your blogger profile so when you comment on someone elses blog they can visit yours too.
I agree to your point that the movie in itself is not a disaster for many reasons. Its well made and couple of performances (Rorshach and Dr.Manhattan) are great but looking at it from the comics side of it. I just couldn't picture the same. The very fact that comics and movies are two different media should have kept the watchmen to the comics. Probably I should have said that for "me" as a Watchmen comics fan I felt disappointed but expectedly nevertheless
well i dont think there is a purpose to every blog or to put it this way a blog may not necessarily start of with a purpose, it just grows to be something eventually.. something u can relate to :)
Totally off topic,by a rad single -line second-para!
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