Patton Oswalt's Big Problem With Watchmen — cinemablend.com

Possibly one of the most surreal wish list movie adaptations, maybe ever, 2009’s Watchmen drew inspiration from the groundbreaking 1985 graphic novel of the same name. However, according to Oswalt, director Zack Snyder may have been a bit too "inspired" from that source material. Look as Patton Oswalt dances uncomfortably around his opinion. In the sit-down, Patrick Wilson doesn’t seem to offer much of a defense to Oswalt’s critique. However, he points to the positive aspect of the film’s frame-by-frame reproduction and how those shots manage to convey his character’s bleak state of mind. While he does have a point, the style also manages to take away a critical organic aspect to the storytelling process that was desperately needed for a complex comic like Watchmen.

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