Loved Watchmen..

@MassExecutions

I agree, Abrams would do a great JL. So would Peter Jackson.

i love the marvel cinematic universe. hope they make a dc cinematic universe

Watchmen was one of the best cbm ever made so wtf is he talking about

Watchmen was great. Also one of my favs. Also tanked at the box office.

@cobracleveland

You mean just like he did Star Trek... oh wait.

@RealGothanite people see Nolan the same way

"And DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are from a bygone era where characters were bigger than we were. Marvel really cracked the code in terms of them being just like us. I think you need to use that as your base."

No.

Just no.

The Avengers are "just like us" sure, but the JLA are gods amongst us. You try to "humanise" them and you'll be left with another Avengers.

WB should not call Whedon.

WB should call Peter Jackson.

loved Watchmen too.

Whedon is probably among the best there is in terms of comic knowledge. Nah, JJ Abrams or Peter Jackson don't know comic stuff that much but they know film making though.

You want authentic comic films you get Whedon.

I liked Watchmen, but I get what he means, if you're going to do a comic frame by frame, then what do you add besides motion? However I loved Sin City which was pretty literally frame-by-frame.

Watchmen worked for me, but I havn't read the comics, so that might be why.

League of blah blah was so bad, I saw echoes of it in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I really do not believe they had a script so much as a vague outline when they filmed those two.

@PR0T0TYP3 thats fine I don't think Nolan is the greatest director alive.

I respect that he's done a few good movies just like Joss. However i'm just responding as thats the topic of this thread.

He should be happy with his film and be talking about the next Avengers movie instead of hating on a CBM that was actual decent.

Understandable - for all intensive purposes, Watchmen wasn't a movie - it was a live action frame for frame comic- it can't be faulted for being EXACTLY what it set out to be.
The first Spiderman wasn't as iconic as he says - rewatch it, and you'll see that while the first half of the movie (origin) is phenomenally well done, the second half gets very over the top, and very cheesy, very fast.

If he hates watchmen that his opinion, you guys don't need to bash on him for that. Everyone has their opinions

The man knows his shit.

WATCHMEN I LIKED, SNYDER ALWAYS GOES AS CLOSE TO THE SOURCE LOOK AS POSSIBLE.

I loved Watchmen, especially the director's cut where they have even more footage, "frame by frame".

I've been a fan of some of the stuff Whedon has worked on - Firefly, Astonishing X-Men, Buffy for a time, but he's getting to be pretty damn arrogant.

The Avengers, I imagine, is successful because they built up to it. As RealGothamite said, he should be thanking or at least acknowledging those who made those films and allowed him the chance to make his Avengers film.

Marvel has been successful thus far because they were smart in how they built up towards the Avengers, too. If they had started with Captain America: the First Avenger, it wouldn't have worked. Not a lot of people wanted to see a superhero jumping around throwing a shield wearing the American flag to begin with, but Iron Man created the demand for this outing. Thankfully Joe Johnston made a really good movie, though it was far from a masterpiece, and it wasn't just another mail-in base-model superhero movie. The same goes for Thor. Even if the characters really didn't cross over, Thor wasn't a particularly sought out character for the casual reader, and even a lot of fans were preparing for the worst simply because Thor doesn't seem like movie material.

They owe so much to Robert Downey Jr and Jon Favreau.

I still haven't seen watchmen. I've heard its a good movie. I was going to watch it the other day but something prevented me. I'll try watching it this week though.

@Azazel1

You mad bro