From the actor’s MySpace blog, via /Film (who uses MySpace anymore?):
Because Zack Snyder STEPPED UP, motherfuckers…[he] delivered a 2 1/2 hour, honest attempt, and broke his ass cranking out tons of free extras.
And no, the movie will not have EVERY LITTLE ELEMENT FROM THE GRAPHIC NOVEL. That’s why the graphic novel exists — you can go read it after you see the movie. Adaptation. Parallel visions. When you adapt a book, you cut things out, combine and conflate, streamline and linger.
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL stands as the best Ellroy adaptation to date, and it throws away massive chunks of the novel’s narrative. THE BLACK DAHLIA slavishly sticks to its source material and it’s almost un-watchable.
I do not invite debate.
Again, the bold is mine. And by the way, no — Oswalt has not seen “Watchmen” yet.
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Of course, you might also take care to bold the “Zack Snyder STEPPED UP” portion, but I digress.
You know, now that I think about it, the film takes quite a few liberties with the source material. Supporting characters are significantly shortened or cut completely, a twist that was revealed late in the book is shown in the opening credits, and of course a major aspect of the ending is changed.
Wow. Haven’t seen Watchmen. Still interested in seeing it. But I’ve rarely detected this level of desperation around a movie.
I actually agree with Patton for the first time. Normally we don’t see eye to eye on stuff (even though he is hysterical.)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is another example to good to be ignored.
A great movie and a great book but both are very different
If by STEPPED UP MOTHERFUCKERS he means Zac Snyder watched STEP UP to help decide what tone to set with the acting, then yes, I agree.
I normally agree with Patton Oswalt, but he is completely wrong here. The fact that he hadn’t seen the movie before writing this tirade just makes it all that more boneheaded.
Sean: Did you not get the point that the film IS the same as the graphic novel, and that THAT is why the thing ultimately fails?
Oh yeah yeah. That part I get. My bad, I wasn’t talking about it in that way. I was saying how an adaptation shouldn’t be like the original work.
I wasn’t talking about the watchmen. Probably should have mentioned that
Read the entire blog entry and his little thing about now being the silver age of TV. Agree with him (and his analysis) that Burn Notice is one of the best shows on TV right now along with Lost and Breaking Bad.