Whenever you receive an email, ask the sender if he minds sending it to me instead? If they do, then nothing I can do, but I can’t do much about it when I don’t even know about it.

I was an astronomy major at University. And aside from the math, did pretty well at it too. So I think I have a better grasp on the Universe at large than you do.

Andrew, you’re a simpleton. If only you were cute and lovable, but you’re constantly trying to talk about stuff that you don’t understand. Can you see how that is frustrating to people?

lol

http://www.rowthree.com/2009/02/13/rewatched-and-reconsidered-crash/comment-page-4/#comment-24800

You understand what I said. Sorry to be so unclear, I was trying to be humourous.

It’s mainly your pathetic political stance, like when you say that people without health insurance weren’t raised right. But the Signs debate definitely exposes your inability to understand the limits of you as an individual, and human beings as a species. Which is shortsightedness.

I wish all of these emails would be sent to me, so that I could defend myself properly. Seems pretty underhanded to just throw in my face that email after email complain about me, how am I supposed to take that? They may be valid complaints, they may be youtube comment-style complaints. But I guess if that many people think it, it must be the truth, right?

Maybe I’m incorrectly reading what you’re trying to say here, Henrik, but I do believe I too am part of the “stupid” community of which you speak based on what this thread is regarding.

I may be stupid, but all of these people are stupid as well! We will be stupid and happy together, and guess what? THEY GET PAID! So stay in your smart-box and be smart, and we’ll be stupid and happy and rich together. I won.

I think it was Terry Gilliam who called Watchmen unfilmable. I guess maybe lazy writers all over the internet has just taken that term to a valid stance on Watchmen in general, especially when the movie was about to be released.

I do agree that Andrew tends to be an idiot. Shortsighted, narrowminded and lacking in insight. It just sucks that he doesn’t agree, and it ends up being a witchhunt.

/curious.

Insofar as you are going to stay loyal to the literary source material there are a lot of things you could say are unfilmable, I don’t see that as lazy, just an acknowledgement of the limitations of both mediums. Hell the creator of Watchmen has been saying this as well, he made Watchmen specifically to do all the stuff that serves the medium it is being told in.

sigh

@ It’s because it’s an unfilmable movie and should never have been made. By all accounts from EVERYONE so far on this site talking about it, it is mediocre at absolute best and shitty shitty bang bang at worst.

http://www.rowthree.com/2009/03/10/cinecast-episode-114-the-major-league-solution/#comment-26991

When you said rot’s the only person who gets what your saying, were you counting yourself? Because it doesn’t even seem like you read your own posts.
Just write more carefully and stuff like this won’t happen.

Did these people succeed or fail?

A Confederacy of Dunces (and at one point this was a Wil Ferrell starring film directed by David Gordon Green; at an even earlier point, Harold Ramis Directed starring John Candy and Richard Pryor)…Neither made it thru the production process, but I would have loved to see both of ‘em.

The other would be Robert Coover’s Pinocchio In Venice. Heck, just about any Coover novel would never be properly adapted to the screen due to his odd writing styles, subject matter and overall novel construction.

…I’d still love to see some filmmaker have the balls to try though.

For the unfilmable thing, I think the problem here is that you guys are confusing opinion with fact. Watchmen being unfilmable is an opinion. Many many people claiming that the film is unfilmable is a fact. Which is all I said. I NEVER said Watchmen is unfilmable. I said that the general populous opinion was that it is unfilmable and if that is the case, it may explain why the movie didn’t work for some people.

I don’t understand you Andrew. clearly this issue is about something very different to you than it is to me. To me it has nothing to do with how many people happen to believe the book is unfilmible.

You probably aren’t interested in my opinion as I’ve actually read the book (probably more than 10 times) and seen the movie. But I’ve always considered the book a difficult job to adapt for reasons that go far beyond length, pirates and squid vaginas.
I may not have liked the movie that much but I was impressed some of the choices they made and a lot of the stuff they at least attempted to adapt.
For all its faults it’s at least ambitious.

But calling an opinion “common knowledge” doesn’t seem correct to me, isn’t it simply “common opinion”? My whole nitpicking all along is that the only reason for listing off a zillion other people holding the same opinion is to say “Well at least I’m not the only person who thinks X”, which I see now that Andrew probably meant.

But I don’t accept showing the existence of it being common opinion as anything therefore being true. I’m arguing from a “Debate Nerd” standpoint regarding fallacies.

It certianly wasn’t “common knowledge” among the studios and film makers all working to produce the Watchmen film over the past several years.

But that’s sort of besides the point. I don’t have some objection to anyone opining that they think it’s unfilmable (although I think that term is over applied). I did think the way Andrew went about making the point in that other thread was rather silly and didn’t make much sense. That’s all I ever said on the subject.
Now the two of you are on some misguided quest to prove that it’s a fact that everyone believed watchmen was unfilmable. I guess it’s on of those things “everyone knows” even though Gilliam, Greengrass and Snyder all worked on actual Watchmen productions. Maybe everyone new except them.

and he was called an idiot by the unspecified Matt, and he responded with the common knowledge argument to show he wasn’t alone in his opinion, which is a way to say if I am an idiot than the majority of people are… except, yeah, probably the majority are.