Comments on: David Poland Tells Watchmen Fans to Dry Their Eyes

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:47:07 +0000

Fanboys should unite and start a riot. Then we'll really need some superheros.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:47:00 +0000

Fanboys should unite and start a riot. Then we'll really need some superheros.

By: Ratter

Ratter — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:12:29 +0000

Cinema goers should boycott all Fox and WB films until the matter is settled. That would speed up the resolve.

By: Ratter

Ratter — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:12:00 +0000

Cinema goers should boycott all Fox and WB films until the matter is settled. That would speed up the resolve.

By: Edub

Edub — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:31:34 +0000

^^*start* speaking professionally

By: Edub

Edub — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:31:00 +0000

^^*start* speaking professionally

By: Edub

Edub — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:30:41 +0000

Geeks, huh? Well F you too, Mr. Poland.

Now stop acting so insulted and speaking professionally. You're representing FOX here. Grow the F up.

By: Edub

Edub — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Geeks, huh? Well F you too, Mr. Poland.

Now stop acting so insulted and speaking professionally. You're representing FOX here. Grow the F up.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:23:00 +0000

Maybe it's just me…but I find it odd that someone calling people names like "geeks" would tell other people that they need to act like adults.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:23:00 +0000

Maybe it's just me…but I find it odd that someone calling people names like "geeks" would tell other people that they need to act like adults.

By: Alericc

Alericc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:25:40 +0000

I disagree with the anaolgy. Fox didn't lend money nor did they agree to release the rights, which I get. What a lot of us disagree with is how Fox waited till WB finished the product an then stepped in and said give us money.

A better anaolgy would be a meter maid watching you park in a spot with folage over the NO PARKING sign, then waiting till you came back to your car and writing you up a ticket.

By: Alericc

Alericc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:25:00 +0000

A better anaolgy would be a meter maid watching you park in a spot with folage over the NO PARKING sign, then waiting till you came back to your car and writing you up a ticket.

By: Shootsy

Shootsy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:21:15 +0000

Poland's comments make me made because the people complaining are not the geek community. He's making the all too often mistake of mis-labeling NERDS as geeks. And Fox and WB are both guilty… sorta. Fox should have brought this up when Watchmen began production at WB, but WB should've covered themselves. Like WB didn't know Fox had a prior interest…

And for everyone who is upset about when comic books are adapted into movies and changed, just calm down. Written word and pictures do not translate directly to the screen. There are so many things they have to take into consideration like pacing, MPAA ratings, ect. Not to mention they're not just making a movie for the fans, but for people who've never heard of Watchmen.

By: Shootsy

Shootsy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:21:00 +0000

By: Nevernude

Nevernude — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:09:12 +0000

Okay time out on this bs…
Fox are dicks for not making/showing any indication they planned to make this movie. Someone at Fox must have known how eager geeks would be to lap up a Watchmen movie. I hate Fox.
Warner Bros are dicks for not covering their asses. You don't start a project knowing full well the rights belong to someone else. I hate WB.
I guess all us fanboys can do is sit and wait, praying that Obama intervenes (he can right? i mean he's gonna solve all the world's problems right? right?)

Maybe Alan Moore had a point when he stated he did not want a Watchmen movie made.

By: Nevernude

Nevernude — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:09:00 +0000

Maybe Alan Moore had a point when he stated he did not want a Watchmen movie made.

By: Joshi

Joshi — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:08:50 +0000

Yes, but if we're to follow that analogy, Fox never actually threw out it's toy, it calmly put it on a shelf to be played with later, and then WB came along and decided it was theirs instead.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:08:00 +0000

Yes, but if we're to follow that analogy, Fox never actually threw out it's toy, it calmly put it on a shelf to be played with later, and then WB came along and decided it was theirs instead.

By: Joshi

Joshi — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:07:53 +0000

The thing is, this is the kind of thing people need to hear. I was also like this, blaming Fox, saying it's all their fault and wanting to boycott them to "teach them a lesson" (although what lesson they'd learn I'm not sure…). But the fact remains, this could have been dealt with before production began and the reason it wasn't was because of WB, because they either didn't respond to Fox plainly telling them they don't have distribution rights, or because their legal team didn't pick up on the fact that they never had the rights in the first place.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:07:00 +0000