This might be controversial, but for me it was Watchmen.
I was really into the graphic novel when the movie was announced. They dropped this trailer with Smashing Pumpkins “The beginning is the End is the Beginning” playing over it and it was so good. Perfectly captured what I felt the tone of the graphic novel was. Gritty, forlorn, dark, contemplative.
I must have watched that trailer 100 times before the movie came out. Then I saw the movie and it was weirdly campy and totally the opposite of the feel the trailer gave in a lot of places. Which in turn was very different from the feel I got from the graphic novel. I was so disappointed. I’ve never gone back to rewatch it, and I probably should because I think the consensus was that it’s a pretty good movie and being more than a decade removed from reading the book might help me appreciate the movie on its own merit a bit more.
Not controversial at all. That trailer was brilliant and it was also right before Dark Knight (or was it DKR) which got me even more excited after experiencing it.
Mind you I still enjoyed the movie (though way more after watching the directors cut).
Director’s cut is definitely the best version overall, though there’s also an ultimate cut that features an animated Tales of the Black Freighter starring Gerard Butler cut into the movie throughout. Worth checking out at least once. The recent Watchmen show on HBO was also excellent. It serves as a sequel 30 years later.
This might be controversial, but for me it was Watchmen.
I was really into the graphic novel when the movie was announced. They dropped this trailer with Smashing Pumpkins “The beginning is the End is the Beginning” playing over it and it was so good. Perfectly captured what I felt the tone of the graphic novel was. Gritty, forlorn, dark, contemplative.
https://youtu.be/wdiHDzT6YbQ?si=K6WoxVts0ZGzSb28
I must have watched that trailer 100 times before the movie came out. Then I saw the movie and it was weirdly campy and totally the opposite of the feel the trailer gave in a lot of places. Which in turn was very different from the feel I got from the graphic novel. I was so disappointed. I’ve never gone back to rewatch it, and I probably should because I think the consensus was that it’s a pretty good movie and being more than a decade removed from reading the book might help me appreciate the movie on its own merit a bit more.
Not controversial at all. That trailer was brilliant and it was also right before Dark Knight (or was it DKR) which got me even more excited after experiencing it.
Mind you I still enjoyed the movie (though way more after watching the directors cut).
Ah is the directors cut good? I think I own it someplace but have never watched it.
Director’s cut is definitely the best version overall, though there’s also an ultimate cut that features an animated Tales of the Black Freighter starring Gerard Butler cut into the movie throughout. Worth checking out at least once. The recent Watchmen show on HBO was also excellent. It serves as a sequel 30 years later.