pirateygoodness: (bsg: for a sex robot you're kinda a nerd)
So, Watchmen. I. . .still have no idea.

spoilercutting for a movie based on a book that's been in print longer than 10 years. BECAUSE I CARE. )

And this may be my point. I don't know if the Watchmen movie was good or bad, because I am still trying to decide whether or not I even respect the story that Moore is trying to tell, and I suspect the answer is "no, I totally don't."
pirateygoodness: (bsg: for a sex robot you're kinda a nerd)
Guys, I am a little way through Watchmen (just at Chapter IV, please don't tell me what happens), and between reading that and V for Vendetta and seeing the film adaptation of Sin City, I have got to say. I am getting a little uncomfortable with Alan Moore's absolute fascination with rape, lesbians, and the way that he explicity denotes overt female sexuality as a barometer for general moral turpitude. (And the fact that he repeatedly and explicitly defines things in terms of "ethics" and "morality" as if those terms have clear, obvious definitions.)

It's not the fact that those are themes in his novels per se, it's that - like, I get this uncomfortable feeling that even though he is all "Yeah, rape is. . .bad. I fucking hate rapists. Also, only people mired in the moral cesspool of [insert city here] are into kinky shit in bed," the idea kind of - is somehow pleasing to him?

Possibly it is reading too much authorial intent into an effing graphic novel, but I don't know. Every time it comes up, I get this weird aroused self-loathing vibe from the prose that kind of skeeves me out. Anyone else?

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