I watched the 12:01 a.m. showing Thursday night/Friday morning. No boos at the end. Neither were there cheers. I applauded. I yelled during my favorite scenes. But this movie was in essence the comic book in moving pictures, caption by caption, frame by frame, like a flip-book. I didn't care. It was a great flip-book. Squidless or not, great movie. Gore hounds will enjoy the fight scenes. But I'll always wonder what Terry Gilliam would have done with the material. I have a copy of the script TG had planned to film. Very different from this version, which was
virtually a copy of the book. Still, great.
AC
P.S. Three of my SAT students were reading the WM graphic novel before class started. Some snippets of the conversations:
"I didn't understand the movie."
"The X-Men was better."
"There was too much talking."
"I've read the book ten times, so I'll see the movie ten times."
P.P.S. I've seen the movie two times so far. Read the book at least twenty times. So I'm with the last geek. I'll just have to see the movie 18 more times.