The Un-Filmable Comic Finally Comes to Theaters
By Connect2Mason Reporter Greg Pelkofski
- We are now a little more than a week away from one of the most anticipated comic book movie adaptations of all time. I am, of course, speaking about Watchmen, one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent graphic novels ever written. It even made Time’s 2005 list of “the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.”
If you haven’t seen the movie or TV trailers, don’t have a comic book nerd like myself for a friend or aren’t taking the current ENGL 201 class that’s teaching Watchmen as textbook, then you probably have never heard of it. Please allow me to fill you in.
If you’ve ever asked the question “What would superheroes be like in the real world?” then Watchmen is the answer. Set in 1985 with the Cold War still at its height, the story begins with the murder of one of the heroes and an investigation into the killing by the vigilante Rorschach, which leads him to believe that there is a conspiracy to eliminate masked heroes. The events soon spiral out of control, leading to a possible nuclear war between America and the USSR, and the heroes must find out what is behind this conspiracy before Armageddon occurs.
Of course, we all know how things can change between the original and the movie adaptation of any comic book or novel. But as long as the movie still leaves the audience asking, “Did they do the right thing at the end?” then the movie will have done its job.
Watchmen will be released in theaters on Friday, March 6 and is rated R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity, and language.
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