I'm most of the way thru the book, but I'm not waiting: I'm seeing the movie (in IMAX) in two hours.
I think the movie qua movie will be understandable and enjoyable, but there's so much real-world back-story here, I think a familiarity with the source would likely enhance the experience. We're talking about a graphic novel...a bloomin' comic book...that's on Time's list of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. That's big. A work in which the author disavowed the film adaptation, because he felt it couldn't be done, because he'd written it so it couldn't be done. That's big. So I felt obliged to know something of what all the hype was about.
Followup: it was awesome. I loved it. Although I pity the fools who went expecting another two-hour Hasbro commercial. There were a few of them in the audience, overheard in the lobby on the way out. More at my own LJ.
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Date: 2009-03-08 08:35 pm (UTC)I think the movie qua movie will be understandable and enjoyable, but there's so much real-world back-story here, I think a familiarity with the source would likely enhance the experience. We're talking about a graphic novel...a bloomin' comic book...that's on Time's list of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. That's big. A work in which the author disavowed the film adaptation, because he felt it couldn't be done, because he'd written it so it couldn't be done. That's big. So I felt obliged to know something of what all the hype was about.
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Date: 2009-03-09 01:51 am (UTC)