Posted on:
7 March 2009

After over 20 years, stints in development hell and various legal wrangles, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s seminal comic book series is finally bestowed a film adaptation. Once deemed by Python Terry Gilliam to be ‘unfilmable‘, the Watchmen film eventually came to be helmed by ‘300′ director Zack Snyder. Though coolography believed 300 to be a perfectly good adaptation of the Frank Miller comic book, Watchmen exhibits an infinitely higher level of substance, nuance and storytelling.
Which is where coolography is at a quandary with Watchmen. As huge fans of the comic we knew that by definition the film couldn’t be truly faithful to to the medium, yet we remained curious as to how Moore’s words and Gibbons’ artwork would be brought to life on the big screen. And big screen indeed: procuring tickets on the opening day at Britain’s largest screen, the BFI IMAX, coolography was intent on doing this right… continue reading »