This is, indeed, a terrible idea.

For those of you who have not read Watchmen…you have to understand that it is not a graphic novel that can easily be brought to the big screen. Despite its comic book/super hero origins, the Watchmen is incredibly deep with twists and turns that are so morally grey you are left wondering by the end of it all who or what exactly you should be rooting for to be cheering for the good guys.

I’m also extremely skeptical about this transition to the big screen ever since I saw V for Vendetta with Josh and Binkle in Waterloo. That movie was such a huge disappointment and I just do not think I could conceivably sit through another horribly maimed adaptation of Alan Moore’s work. Watchment, especially, has too much meat and meaning and symbolism and…

It is too dense to become a movie. And the fact that Hollywood studio executives picked it up because they are scrounging for popular super hero franchises to make movies from, I just know that it is going to be maimed, beaten and dragged through the mud before we see it in theatres.

Even if they were to pull a Frank Miller, and have panel by panel accuracy (for the most part), the source content would still be spat on by a movie adaptation.