The one thing that annoys me about Alan Moore's critics -- or more precisely, comics fans who see Alan express a less than complimentary opinion about the comics industry -- is their eagerness to just write the guy off as a caricature. Once his name appears in the article's headlines, the comment section is quick to paint him as a crazy old man, ranting and raving just because company X, Y or Z has pissed him off. While his grievances might come up now and again in interviews, it's not as if he's the Tasmanian Devil, frothing and flailing in a kind of maniacal rage. In this interview -- in any interview he gives on radio or TV -- he speaks slowly, carefully and obviously puts a lot of thought into what he says.
I for one share many creative thoughts with Mr Moore, but I on the other hand have been pushed way to hard to conceive sitting in front of a camera n be nice. I have had enuff with the condescending acts of the weak. Because if you were strong you would lift a person up when they are down, n not put them down so you feel better. Mr Moore 1 last book will both make u n break you!! Ready?
Agreed. At the same time many Alan Moore fans seem incapable of tolerating any criticism of him - and there should always be criticism when someone makes such strong statements as he does. One would think his fans would appreciate this, as I'm sure Moore himself would. He certainly isn't one to push hegemonical thinking.
I was a fan. Till last year, when he flipped communist. Supported total state control of the economy. Total state control! Wtf kind of "anarchist" is that?! Noam Chomsky style communism. Pathetic turncoat weasel. Scumbag of the highest order. I mean... Literal Maoists!!
Everyone is always so quick to label him insane or a curmudgeon, which he certainly has some unique character traits, none of which make him wicked in my opinion, but he always comes off as a pretty sensible and level-headed guy. He obviously cares deeply about his art form and his works and I think his passion is admirable. Whether you agree with him or not, you can't knock the man for wanting to protect his messages and his legacy.
@@ThunderChunky101, we respect him. Respecting your enemies or even a person with strange and/or controversial ideals is still fine. Just keep your ideals yours.
@@nkyfong How can you respect a person who claimed to be an anarchist his entire life and then openly supports communists, the exact opposite?! He voted for a massive expansion of government power and a massive expansion of the state. The aorry he advocates for want to extend bans of free expression dn free speech! A writer advocating for a political party who's front bench is filled with literal Maoists who want to ban free expression?! He's a traitor to his own ideals. He's a communist of the worst kind. I have absolutely zero respect for a person who can act this way.
I'm with this man 100%. Everything made now is either a reboot or something that was never meant to be in films while potentially Great material is ruined or never touched...
I'm only angry when adaptations are done horribly. especially since i think film is a great visual medium that has great potential to give life to a story. but often times hollywood just fucks it all up though.
And you're so incredibly above this empty shell of a world, you have Superman as your avatar pic. You're original through and through, because if there's something original, it's Superman.
"Hollywood can only recycle things that have already been done or adapt things from media where they weren't intended as films" and "Hollywood clearly hasn't had an idea in the last two or three decades" _ It's a real pleasure hearing Alan Moore pointing out the truth about the lack of originality in mass market American films, especially since the late 90s and onwards. All of Moore's comic books adaptations by Hollywood so far have been unwatchable mediocrities to say the least.
And it so true that many classic films were adaptions of novels. I was shocked to find out. Kubrick films were based on novels, so was Spielbergs, Cameron's, etc. Blade Runner, Star Wars, Dune, etc. Nothing was really original from Hollywood.
@@maforo85 blade runner was very loosely based on do androids dream of electric sheep, they really aren’t very similar, and there are lots of original ideas too
@@Echoo264 Star wars was based on Flash Gordon, Dune, the Hidden Fortress (and Kurosawa movies), westerns, WW2 dogfights etc etc It was a collection of pop culture references that was saved in editing by Georges wife and the other editors. This was widely known by fans (like me) who read the PR stuff from the time (1977)
@@samburnscomposer it was entirely based on the book, but like all adaptions, creative license needed to translate it to a new medium can change everything. The whole 'is deckard a replicant' was entirely Ridley Scotts bandwagon, and he even added a cut scene from his Tom Cruise fantasy film with the horse to further his case. It was always ambiguous according to the rest of the filmmaking team
Just looking at how Dr manhattan was written as a character and the rules that goverens Dr manhattans world just made me go, ' woah! This guy clearly understands something deeper and has exposed his mind to different concepts'
Alan Moore took money for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Moore felt movie Adaptation were free money and the mvoie wouldn't get made. Once LoEG was made, that's when he adapted the rock 'n Roll attitude of not accepting money.
Joker as a film wasn’t special. That’s a case of the main actor (Joaquin Phoenix) being extraordinary that the film ended up making an impression. Take Joaquin out and it wouldn’t have been as impressionable.
So this is what he means by all the things he says about Corporations taking ideas and sucking them like leaches until they got every last drop of the marrow from our bones like he said it to Bart and Milhouse on The Simpsons
I got a few of his written comics and even read League and Watchman. His writings has his tropes like rape and murder but it's his use of language like a fat man stepping over a watch in Watchman is symbolic to the A-bomb being called the Fat Man or his use of meta like kids in a super hero world read Pirate comics or in Promethea they read Weeping Gorilla which was a parody of DC romance comics of the 1950s. Every time they do a movie of his works it's shoot them up and bang bang. It's nothing of Moore in them.
As someone who lives in Northamptonshire and visits Northampton regularly, you feel the sense of hidden darkness there. I love it all the same though, its home.
In writing for the comic medium, he also utilised the very unique nature of the interplay between image and text to stimulate reader's minds. He never just lets you be a passive consumer. The films are the opposite. With movement and sound added to make all imagination disappear, they are literally cash-grabs made to fuel a corrupt, stupid and bloated industry that relegates art to servitude. If the imagination is a muscle, Hollywood is what made it atrophy in the vast majority of the population. You're being poisoned with junk entertainment.
Its stupid that he hates adaptation considering 3 of his best books were based on already existing characters? Lost Girls, league of extraordinary gentleman, and Watchmen were all based on characters that already existed in the first place?
I think is issue is more with some Hollywood adaptations taking stories meant for one medium and not understanding how or why they work in said medium and might not work in the medium of cinema. The characters he took for watchmen were already comic book characters, and Lost Girls and LoEG were from literature, which is a less jarring jump to graphic novel than graphic novel to motion picture
is there an interview where he elaborates on his views on the V for Vendetta film? i hated the film, wondering what he makes of it. (The Watchmen series i kinda liked.)
@@maforo85 Considering he was developing a videogame for a time, I think you lost the bet. "During the session, someone asked Moore if he ever had an interest in videogames. Moore revealed that he is now looking at a project created with a number of different mediums in mind. While it's evidently not settled yet, he said there may be "possibly some surprising stuff happening in the next 12 months" - "You didn't hear it from me," Moore added. Like comics and movies, his 'magic' is using them to tell his stories if the medium is appropriate. He probably peaked too early for the technology - writing for videogames is now an important pop cultural role - when he was at his height games were still establishing their storytelling aspects. You can send all your money to 'Ethiopian prince, c/o russianbot.com
I disagree with him about the adaption thing, look at Stanley Kubrick, who made a career out of adapting books into films, and Kubrick did it because he loved it, not because he wanted to make money, or because he lacked ideas. I respect Alan Moore, but I think he's very wrong in this regard, not every filmmaker who adapts a book or a comic is out to make money and cash in on an idea that's already been done.
I think maybe Stanley Kubrick would have had a much harder job getting finance for his films today. Imagine HoIlywood greenlighting A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut or Full Metal Jacket, in our current risk-averse climate. Studios are terrified of offending anyone, especially TPTB and the god-botherers.
Totally agree but this happens like 5% of the time. Would be cooler if we at least let new stories be developed instead of incestuously retreading the old ones.
the watchmen's graphic novel may be better than the movie but you gotta understand the reason why it's a movie instead of a show is because the budget would've ruined it. Look at HBO, i know it's graphic novel's sequel but the CGI of Dr.manhattan is trash and it was published in 2019! That was 2019!(the actor can't even act how to be the character) Imagine how horrible if the movie were a show.
He against adaptation ! So much of his own work is reworking old ideas and characters for sakes, I mean I agree with his criticisms to a certain extent but still.
+kindaawkwardbro He's not against adaptation itself. He's against adaptation that stay too far away from the core of the original stories and characters. For example among his favorite movies there are La Belle et la Beté of Jean Cocteau or The Wizard of Oz, both movies who are adaptations of old classics stories. What Moore do not like is that Hollywood is more interested in making big box office success than respect the original stories. And that is reflected in all the adaptations of his works.
kindaawkwardbro Such as? Movie adaptations of Moore's works have deprived the novels of anything they ment and minimize their motives if not even take them out completely. Moore's works are not ment to be films and they should have never been made
Here is the only sensible I can offer. Is that mister. Moore(or shall we sir him? ) to sell his services as a screen writer . And If this was to happen There are some people in rage Industry, already shitting their pants...
Mr Alan Moore, will you wright my story of how I went from a lonely guy, hiding away from the ugly world. To be put in front of a live stream audience , with no ability to understand this was my worst nightmare. Without my consent, to hack my phone n tablet, stream thru my DVR rented from time Warner n broadcast throughout the workd.
I love the guy,but I don't understand his rants about adaptations of comic books into movies...Nothing to be mad about really...people want it,Hollywood gives it to them. The fact that the most successful movies in the past 15 years are based on comic books just shows that people love it. I just don't understand him on this one tho.
@@The_10th_Doctor. I've read it a few times,have both the tpb and deluxe hardcover edition. More story,more information,but some things are way better depicted on screen and some are better in the panel story telling of the comic. I understood Moore's reaction is more of a criticism of the complete lack of creativity in Hollywood these days,but very few people would've known these awesome comic book stories and characters had it not been brought to them by Hollywood, because you and me know that books (comics included) feel like a thing of the past and it's more and more obvious with every new generation...
Jeffrey Mboya i love the giant squid alan moore sets up the squad early in the comic with the artists so to then exclude the squid is bs especially considering what it represents to the story
I’m a big fan, but Mr. Moore, I wish you would be more forgiving and receptive to people appreciating your work. That’s not to overlook the fact that the comics industry has fucked you and I can see where you’re coming from. I just wish you were more receptive.
I like some of his work but he is a tad pretentious with the quite an ego. I wouldn't say is the greatest ever, Ennis has a good shout in that argument as does grant Morrison
I have to laugh a little whenever Moore claims American studios market a stereotypical view of England - his American characters always tend to talk like cartoon cowboys, and whenever he writes an Irish character they tend to talk like the Lucky Charms mascot. For all his intellectualism, he's hardly above that kind of writing himself.
Alan, you're a lovely Guy, and you can write like no other, but you fail to see the contradictions in a lot of what you spout on about, and we've seen what "anarchic, fluid structures......" Are currently doing in the US. We don't need more of that, we need a lot less right now thanks. Have a. Cuppa and a quiet think.
No, to paraphrase, he said it was allowed to flourish in the 60s and 70s because nobody addressed it. This being in response to the question posed about the sexual violence in his film which he is addressing in order for it not to flourish.
This is an old posh but it reminded me of a quote about V for Vendetta that also relates to looking the other way in the 60s and 70s “V for Vendetta is for people who don’t turn off the news”
“I met him in a crypt “
That seems like it be the only place one could meet Alan Moore
this comment is underrated
Or his magical cave
A trick : watch movies at Flixzone. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies these days.
@Damian Bridger definitely, have been using Flixzone for since november myself =)
She hadn't even made an appointment. She was in the crypt for something else and found Alan just hanging round.
The only comic adaptation of his work that he actually approves, was an episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled: For The Man Who Has Everyting.
Really where?
actually that's a myth.
Not sure if he approved since it was still a translation of a story he wrote for the comic format into animated format.
The only adaptation he ever liked was Harry Partridge's Saturday Morning Watchmen.
i have seen that its fucking amazing
I love Alan Moore. Easily the greatest graphic novelist of all time and my favorite comic book artist period.
He didn't draw
lol
Roberto Sauma He did/can draw.
He was not a comic book artist. He was a comic book writer.
@milster I like his politics as much as much as his comics
The one thing that annoys me about Alan Moore's critics -- or more precisely, comics fans who see Alan express a less than complimentary opinion about the comics industry -- is their eagerness to just write the guy off as a caricature. Once his name appears in the article's headlines, the comment section is quick to paint him as a crazy old man, ranting and raving just because company X, Y or Z has pissed him off. While his grievances might come up now and again in interviews, it's not as if he's the Tasmanian Devil, frothing and flailing in a kind of maniacal rage. In this interview -- in any interview he gives on radio or TV -- he speaks slowly, carefully and obviously puts a lot of thought into what he says.
Any comicbook writer who expresses an opinion gets in trouble. Dwayne McDuffie(RIP), Alan Moore, Grant Morrison just to name a few.
I for one share many creative thoughts with Mr Moore, but I on the other hand have been pushed way to hard to conceive sitting in front of a camera n be nice. I have had enuff with the condescending acts of the weak. Because if you were strong you would lift a person up when they are down, n not put them down so you feel better. Mr Moore 1 last book will both make u n break you!! Ready?
Agreed. At the same time many Alan Moore fans seem incapable of tolerating any criticism of him - and there should always be criticism when someone makes such strong statements as he does. One would think his fans would appreciate this, as I'm sure Moore himself would. He certainly isn't one to push hegemonical thinking.
I was a fan. Till last year, when he flipped communist. Supported total state control of the economy. Total state control! Wtf kind of "anarchist" is that?! Noam Chomsky style communism. Pathetic turncoat weasel. Scumbag of the highest order. I mean... Literal Maoists!!
@@ThunderChunky101 Chomsky is an anarcho-syndicalist
Everyone is always so quick to label him insane or a curmudgeon, which he certainly has some unique character traits, none of which make him wicked in my opinion, but he always comes off as a pretty sensible and level-headed guy. He obviously cares deeply about his art form and his works and I think his passion is admirable. Whether you agree with him or not, you can't knock the man for wanting to protect his messages and his legacy.
I have so much respect for this man
Correction
**EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE RESPECT FOR THIS MAN**
Why? He now supports actual communists who want total state control over the economy.
He's a turncoat of the highest order.
@@ThunderChunky101, we respect him. Respecting your enemies or even a person with strange and/or controversial ideals is still fine. Just keep your ideals yours.
@@nkyfong How can you respect a person who claimed to be an anarchist his entire life and then openly supports communists, the exact opposite?! He voted for a massive expansion of government power and a massive expansion of the state. The aorry he advocates for want to extend bans of free expression dn free speech! A writer advocating for a political party who's front bench is filled with literal Maoists who want to ban free expression?! He's a traitor to his own ideals. He's a communist of the worst kind. I have absolutely zero respect for a person who can act this way.
@@ThunderChunky101, we respect the writer and we are scared of the anarchist. That is what we mean.
I'm with this man 100%. Everything made now is either a reboot or something that was never meant to be in films while potentially Great material is ruined or never touched...
I'm only angry when adaptations are done horribly. especially since i think film is a great visual medium that has great potential to give life to a story. but often times hollywood just fucks it all up though.
I mean, you can’t please the actual author even how great the adaptation is. Just look on the kubrick and king.
And you're so incredibly above this empty shell of a world, you have Superman as your avatar pic. You're original through and through, because if there's something original, it's Superman.
Shut up and go back to the Criterion Collection
😂😂😂now?
"Hollywood can only recycle things that have already been done or adapt things from media where they weren't intended as films" and "Hollywood clearly hasn't had an idea in the last two or three decades" _ It's a real pleasure hearing Alan Moore pointing out the truth about the lack of originality in mass market American films, especially since the late 90s and onwards. All of Moore's comic books adaptations by Hollywood so far have been unwatchable mediocrities to say the least.
And it so true that many classic films were adaptions of novels. I was shocked to find out. Kubrick films were based on novels, so was Spielbergs, Cameron's, etc. Blade Runner, Star Wars, Dune, etc. Nothing was really original from Hollywood.
CyanBlue star wars wasnt a novel
@@maforo85 blade runner was very loosely based on do androids dream of electric sheep, they really aren’t very similar, and there are lots of original ideas too
@@Echoo264 Star wars was based on Flash Gordon, Dune, the Hidden Fortress (and Kurosawa movies), westerns, WW2 dogfights etc etc
It was a collection of pop culture references that was saved in editing by Georges wife and the other editors.
This was widely known by fans (like me) who read the PR stuff from the time (1977)
@@samburnscomposer it was entirely based on the book, but like all adaptions, creative license needed to translate it to a new medium can change everything.
The whole 'is deckard a replicant' was entirely Ridley Scotts bandwagon, and he even added a cut scene from his Tom Cruise fantasy film with the horse to further his case.
It was always ambiguous according to the rest of the filmmaking team
Completely in love with how casually the interviewer says "I met him in a crypt"
Not all of his work is my favourite, but my respect for him never fades.
Great author and a fascinating personality! From Hell is my favourite graphic novel of all time!
are they trying to scare the shit out of me with that intro
Just looking at how Dr manhattan was written as a character and the rules that goverens Dr manhattans world just made me go, ' woah! This guy clearly understands something deeper and has exposed his mind to different concepts'
I definitely need to read it again.
We need more of Alan
Alan Moore knows the score!
One of the greatest authors of all time
Alan Moore took money for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Moore felt movie Adaptation were free money and the mvoie wouldn't get made. Once LoEG was made, that's when he adapted the rock 'n Roll attitude of not accepting money.
To think we spent 5 days shooting there xxx
Wonder what he thinks about Joker with Joaquin Phoenix
Dorito Man I suspect he doesn’t care for it, finding it derivative, but appreciating that it tackles serious themes.
Joker is soo Hollywood and lame
he would find it as teenagers' screaming that they are deep
Joker is less than the sum of its parts. They were lucky they got DeNiro and Phoenix to bring more to the table.
Joker as a film wasn’t special. That’s a case of the main actor (Joaquin Phoenix) being extraordinary that the film ended up making an impression. Take Joaquin out and it wouldn’t have been as impressionable.
V for Vendetta: Alan Moore - the man behind the mask | Channel 4 News
mcdaddy of graphic novels is right. He has a vision
The Master Alan Moore.
Know Thyself
But if you achieve to know thyself, the only thing you would know is a lie . . .
So this is what he means by all the things he says about Corporations taking ideas and sucking them like leaches until they got every last drop of the marrow from our bones like he said it to Bart and Milhouse on The Simpsons
Weirdo bearded man whom is the source of my inspiration!
Alan Muur on Haliwuud adaptejshynz, Dhe Show & Northamptyn
lol
looking good!
I got a few of his written comics and even read League and Watchman. His writings has his tropes like rape and murder but it's his use of language like a fat man stepping over a watch in Watchman is symbolic to the A-bomb being called the Fat Man or his use of meta like kids in a super hero world read Pirate comics or in Promethea they read Weeping Gorilla which was a parody of DC romance comics of the 1950s.
Every time they do a movie of his works it's shoot them up and bang bang. It's nothing of Moore in them.
If you have ever spent time in Northampton, you will know that dark mystique side of it.
Northampton is the most average place in England
As someone who lives in Northamptonshire and visits Northampton regularly, you feel the sense of hidden darkness there. I love it all the same though, its home.
Alan always reps his city (or large town?), nuff love for Alan though
In writing for the comic medium, he also utilised the very unique nature of the interplay between image and text to stimulate reader's minds. He never just lets you be a passive consumer. The films are the opposite. With movement and sound added to make all imagination disappear, they are literally cash-grabs made to fuel a corrupt, stupid and bloated industry that relegates art to servitude. If the imagination is a muscle, Hollywood is what made it atrophy in the vast majority of the population. You're being poisoned with junk entertainment.
I wonder if Goth band Bauhaus, also from Northampton picked up on those same undertones?
He’s a genius
The stars would not shine so bright if there was no darkness.
Its stupid that he hates adaptation considering 3 of his best books were based on already existing characters? Lost Girls, league of extraordinary gentleman, and Watchmen were all based on characters that already existed in the first place?
Arcanus Gaming
That I agree on
I think is issue is more with some Hollywood adaptations taking stories meant for one medium and not understanding how or why they work in said medium and might not work in the medium of cinema. The characters he took for watchmen were already comic book characters, and Lost Girls and LoEG were from literature, which is a less jarring jump to graphic novel than graphic novel to motion picture
He hates hollywood, not adaptations
Clown cults and outrageous murders...sounds like a Mr. Bungle record?
is there an interview where he elaborates on his views on the V for Vendetta film? i hated the film, wondering what he makes of it.
(The Watchmen series i kinda liked.)
Imagine Alan Moore writing a Mass Effect game.
@FBI Alypstick a hard fart in a new york subway is a better interactive experience than mass effect andromeda
@Nic Rock prolly not
Lol. Your joking right. He probably and bet all my money he thinks video games are for losers.
@@maforo85 Considering he was developing a videogame for a time, I think you lost the bet.
"During the session, someone asked Moore if he ever had an interest in videogames.
Moore revealed that he is now looking at a project created with a number of different mediums in mind. While it's evidently not settled yet, he said there may be "possibly some surprising stuff happening in the next 12 months" - "You didn't hear it from me," Moore added.
Like comics and movies, his 'magic' is using them to tell his stories if the medium is appropriate.
He probably peaked too early for the technology - writing for videogames is now an important pop cultural role - when he was at his height games were still establishing their storytelling aspects.
You can send all your money to 'Ethiopian prince, c/o russianbot.com
@@maforo85 nah, sure that he is a boomer, but he doesn't act like one
I disagree with him about the adaption thing, look at Stanley Kubrick, who made a career out of adapting books into films, and Kubrick did it because he loved it, not because he wanted to make money, or because he lacked ideas.
I respect Alan Moore, but I think he's very wrong in this regard, not every filmmaker who adapts a book or a comic is out to make money and cash in on an idea that's already been done.
I think maybe he's only talking about 95% of adaptions?
I think maybe Stanley Kubrick would have had a much harder job getting finance for his films today. Imagine HoIlywood greenlighting A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut or Full Metal Jacket, in our current risk-averse climate. Studios are terrified of offending anyone, especially TPTB and the god-botherers.
I strive for a beard like his
Examplary of a mad genius
love your comments on crowley man...eihey hey...take it easy.. probably best
Whatever happened to this movie 'The Show' - I can't seem to find any information about it online?
apparently its called "show pieces" according to google
it's 2020, and still hasn't been able to be found
I loved v for vendetta movie more then the graphic novel
ok
Genious!
Funny, the only adapt he likes it the one JLU ep.
Also getting the feeling he’s not consulted on any of the adaptations of his work.
4:35 Do we?
I like the watchmen and v for vendetta movies but I think that Alan and I would agree both that the league of extraordinary men was beyond a failure
watchmen the film was awful
Jaws was a far greater film than it was a novel so?
To be fair you cant say the same thing about watchmen
Totally agree but this happens like 5% of the time. Would be cooler if we at least let new stories be developed instead of incestuously retreading the old ones.
the watchmen's graphic novel may be better than the movie
but you gotta understand the reason why it's a movie instead of a show is because the budget would've ruined it.
Look at HBO, i know it's graphic novel's sequel but the CGI of Dr.manhattan is trash and it was published in 2019! That was 2019!(the actor can't even act how to be the character)
Imagine how horrible if the movie were a show.
He's talking about current hollywood and the mass corporatization of art, as opposed to the older studio system that was in place when jaws was made.
He against adaptation ! So much of his own work is reworking old ideas and characters for sakes, I mean I agree with his criticisms to a certain extent but still.
+kindaawkwardbro He's not against adaptation itself. He's against adaptation that stay too far away from the core of the original stories and characters. For example among his favorite movies there are La Belle et la Beté of Jean Cocteau or The Wizard of Oz, both movies who are adaptations of old classics stories. What Moore do not like is that Hollywood is more interested in making big box office success than respect the original stories. And that is reflected in all the adaptations of his works.
that maybe be true but that doesnt mean that their is no artistic merit in any of the movie adaptations of moores work.
kindaawkwardbro Such as? Movie adaptations of Moore's works have deprived the novels of anything they ment and minimize their motives if not even take them out completely. Moore's works are not ment to be films and they should have never been made
Francesco Brosolo but the wizard of oz is adapted horribly into film as far as straying from the subject matter goes
He might be a little coo coo but he sure is a genius.
A very rare interview for Alan...it felt like he didn't really say anything.
God speaks. 2:34
Here is the only sensible I can offer. Is that mister. Moore(or shall we sir him? ) to sell his services as a screen writer . And If this was to happen There are some people in rage Industry, already shitting their pants...
As much I respect him I can’t say the he is but of weird guy
“Alan moe”
Mr Alan Moore, will you wright my story of how I went from a lonely guy, hiding away from the ugly world. To be put in front of a live stream audience , with no ability to understand this was my worst nightmare. Without my consent, to hack my phone n tablet, stream thru my DVR rented from time Warner n broadcast throughout the workd.
I respect Allen Moore , however I'll admit i loved Zack sniders Adaptation of watchmen , it was amazing .
The biggest problem was that it omitted a lot of the political messages in favour of action sequences, which is contrary to the point of the story
Moore is a genius when writing for comics but he a bit of a hypocrite since he has adapted characters himself from books to graphic novels.
Mikael Taraganis Didn't you hear his opinion though he said that were intended so he intended to do that I guess
Detrás del pestillo está la Dialéctica de dios;)
"Hollywood can only recycle things that have already been done" - Alan Moore, the man who made his living on recycling things already been done
I love the guy,but I don't understand his rants about adaptations of comic books into movies...Nothing to be mad about really...people want it,Hollywood gives it to them. The fact that the most successful movies in the past 15 years are based on comic books just shows that people love it. I just don't understand him on this one tho.
Watchmen is inherently about comics, you want to experience watchmen? Read the comic as that’s how the original artist intended
@@The_10th_Doctor. I've read it a few times,have both the tpb and deluxe hardcover edition. More story,more information,but some things are way better depicted on screen and some are better in the panel story telling of the comic. I understood Moore's reaction is more of a criticism of the complete lack of creativity in Hollywood these days,but very few people would've known these awesome comic book stories and characters had it not been brought to them by Hollywood, because you and me know that books (comics included) feel like a thing of the past and it's more and more obvious with every new generation...
Considering the fans of the synder watchmen. Moore was entirely correct in hating adaptations.
lol - seeing a move towards individualism in hundreds of people putting on the same mask is quite an...."acomplishment"
Alan Moore and Morrissey would make a great double act.
Man he has such a thick accent, can hardly understand him. Otherwise, great author!
It's a pretty normal english accent.
Actually that is one of the more understandable British accents. Wait until you hear Geordie or Scousers, or Yam yams
...or welsh and countryside scottish. Even yorkshire can get pretty bizarre sometimes. And lets not even begin about rhyming slang, please.
+Gabriel Martins (Inconfident) I do love the Northampton Accent though, sort of like a soft, countrified Birmingham accent
Yis m'duck.
Alan Moore is easily one of the scariest people on Earth
Nothing is new
He's not being fair to the Watchmen movie.
+Seán O'Nilbud no giant squid
+eiji niizuma i honestly think, it was good that they didnt include that
Jeffrey Mboya i love the giant squid
alan moore sets up the squad early in the comic with the artists so to then exclude the squid is bs especially considering what it represents to the story
+eiji niizuma lets agree to disagree
Seán O'Nilbud And you would understand criticism of that film better than the source material's author would?
The Watchmen movie is an insult to the graphic novel and probably one of the worst movies ever made
I’m a big fan, but Mr. Moore, I wish you would be more forgiving and receptive to people appreciating your work. That’s not to overlook the fact that the comics industry has fucked you and I can see where you’re coming from. I just wish you were more receptive.
Receptive to what?
I like some of his work but he is a tad pretentious with the quite an ego. I wouldn't say is the greatest ever, Ennis has a good shout in that argument as does grant Morrison
I have to laugh a little whenever Moore claims American studios market a stereotypical view of England - his American characters always tend to talk like cartoon cowboys, and whenever he writes an Irish character they tend to talk like the Lucky Charms mascot. For all his intellectualism, he's hardly above that kind of writing himself.
He is great. Not as good as Frank Miller though
Alan, you're a lovely Guy, and you can write like no other, but you fail to see the contradictions in a lot of what you spout on about, and we've seen what "anarchic, fluid structures......" Are currently doing in the US. We don't need more of that, we need a lot less right now thanks. Have a. Cuppa and a quiet think.
You all love this man correct me if I’m wrong but did he just condone pedophilia?
No, to paraphrase, he said it was allowed to flourish in the 60s and 70s because nobody addressed it. This being in response to the question posed about the sexual violence in his film which he is addressing in order for it not to flourish.
@@mottainaicycles5564 my bad I had a lot to drink that night and misunderstood.
I know that feeling well, mate!
This is an old posh but it reminded me of a quote about V for Vendetta that also relates to looking the other way in the 60s and 70s “V for Vendetta is for people who don’t turn off the news”