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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Some of those I rather liked. I mean, all things considered you can't have things be perfect, because you're condensing into a finite amount of time. But I thought Watchmen was one of the better adaptations, especially of Moore's work (LXG anyone?)
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Like so many other movie adaptations,
Watchmen suffered from trying to get too much into a 2-hour time slot... or trying to cut too much away. A story like
Watchmen should have been done as a multi-episode mini-series, in order to allow as much time as needed to tell the story (I'd guess six, maybe eight hours to include the Black Freighter material, would have been enough).
Otherwise, you're better off writing fresh material that will fit into your standard movie time-slot, since moviegoers rail at significantly longer movie lengths, and theaters resist them because of the lower box office.