I strongly disagree! I would have used "shallow" instead of "facile."

Now we must engage in a battle of wits! Or, if this were a Fincher movie, a battle of half-wits!

Did we know Zach Synder, who directed 300 (which I haven't seen yet but it seems to be gathering incredibly mixed reviews), is set to direct an adaptation of Watchmen?

Yep!. (And based on that interview, I'm hesitantly hopeful, which is a nice change from previous Watchmen movie news.)

"My plan with Watchmen is the same as my plan with 300: to get at what makes it a great book," he says, adding that the flaw with most of the earlier incarnations was that they strayed too far from the source material. "I look at it as if we're making Moby Dick-you don't change it." As with 300, Snyder has been using Moore's graphic novel as a storyboard during the pre-production process and plans to recreate artist Dave Gibbons' illustrations as closely as possible, while also peppering the movie with visual cues to such instantly recognizable films as Taxi Driver and Dr. Strangelove. "I'm interested in making an iconographic film of Watchmen, because I feel that's the way the book is drawn," he explains. "There's so much pop-culture referenced on the page, if you make a movie that's smart enough to do that, then you're in the right [ballpark]." But don't expect Watchmen to be filmed in the same manner as 300. For one thing, Snyder feels that a movie version of Moore's book demands more "hard reality" than Miller's deliberately exaggerated take on ancient history.

That does sound pretty promising.

I just don't see how they'll get anywhere near the scope of the book in a two or two and a half hour movie.

Hey, wanna play the favorite "Casting Watchmen" game?

Patrick Stewart as Dr. Manhattan?

Patrick Stewart as Dr. Manhattan?

Hm. I always see ol' Jon Osterman as being younger than Patrick Stewart.

Maybe Liam Neeson? With his head all shaved?

I've always been partial to Dan Aykroyd as Nite Owl, but he may be getting too old for that. Maybe Greg Grunberg, though.

Maybe Liam Neeson? With his head all shaved?

That could work. I just think we know Patrick Stewart looks good bald, although I agree that Dr. Manhattan is probably much younger.

Maybe Greg Grunberg, though.

Hee.

Christian Bale is too pretty for Rorschach, isn't he?

Wait, he spends most of the time covered in bandages, so it doesn't matter...

Sometimes I think William H. Macy for Rorschach. Then I wonder.

Have any Buffistas seen "Shut up And Sing?" cause Netflix sent it today. I hope it's FG. Also, (thrall alert) Ken Burns' baseball, volume one.Which the object of my thrall insists is mistake-prone, but I am *such* a blank slate, that I'll learn more than not, I think. Like the only thing I know about baseball versus quantum physics is Annie Savoy and that song about cracker jack. And you hit with the big end, right?

Ron Perlman as the Comedian.