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Any comic book or comic book movie fans here? I'm currently reading Absolute Watchmen and I haven't seen the movie based off it yet.

I haven't seen Wolverine yet either, for those who have, how was it?
(I still remember when Wolverine deputed in his own spin off series in the 70s)
 
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What's the difference between Absolute Watchmen and the regular Watchmen? Or is it a completely different title?

As for the Wolverine movie, it was a pretty good action flick. Don't expect much in the way of deep characters or an exhaustive plot, but you can definitely be guaranteed some solid action sequences. Overall, it's a fun movie.
 
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Kash said:
What's the difference between Absolute Watchmen and the regular Watchmen? Or is it a completely different title?

As for the Wolverine movie, it was a pretty good action flick. Don't expect much in the way of deep characters or an exhaustive plot, but you can definitely be guaranteed some solid action sequences. Overall, it's a fun movie.
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I thought it was pretty close to the actual comic. The only parts I didn't want to see was the naked scenes. Like seriously do we need to see man butt?
 
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What's the difference between Absolute Watchmen and the regular Watchmen? Or is it a completely different title?
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Im not sure yet (just started it) but it's a gigantic book, way bigger then the original graphic novel.
 
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I've been reading all of the Buffy season 8 comics because I'm obsessed with all things Joss Whedon.

Over the last little while I've gotten into Superman. I like Smallville, so I've been getting the dvds of all the other tv/movie incarnations as well as reading the old comics.
 
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Wolverine is my favorite character. Spawn was my favorite comic.
 
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Item of interest: Disney just purchased Marvel Comics and ALL their characters.
 
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I just read that on CNBC...great. I mean that sarcastically. Not that I don't like Disney, I do, I just feel that Disney won't do justice to the Marvel universe. They'll "Disney-fi" it. Watered down stories and characters. I wonder how that this is going to affect the Marvel movies that have been green-lighted? Ironman 2, The Avengers to name a few.
 
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I used to read 2000AD, that was pretty cool, but other than that, not really no.

I tried watching Watchmen, but the whole film feels like it's a sequel, so I guess I have to read the comics, which I wasn't aware of, so the film was pretty confusing for me.

NMMI89 said:
Not that I don't like Disney, I do, I just feel that Disney won't do justice to the Marvel universe. They'll "Disney-fi" it.
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Disney isn't what it was... say, even 5 years ago. They'll water it down, but not with all friendly and cute things. Oh no. They'll turn em into stupid little musicals with the superhero being played by 15/16 year olds :p.
 
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CrimsonRequiem said:
I thought it was pretty close to the actual comic. The only parts I didn't want to see was the naked scenes. Like seriously do we need to see man butt?
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:)

I'd never heard of Watchmen until I bought the DVD - its just strange...

Best comic movie = Iron Man / the new Batman films!
 
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CrimsonRequiem said:
Like seriously do we need to see man butt?
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Yes. :Mischievous:

But seriously, I did enjoy the Wolverine Movie, thought it was pretty well done though gambit severely underwhelmed me.
 

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