ZACK SNYDER Responds to JOEL SILVER’S WATCHMEN Criticism

As part of UnleashTheFanboy’s ongoing series of “Celebrity Battles!”, we bring you Zack Snyder’s response to Joel Silver’s comments that the Terry Gilliam version of the film would have been “a much, much better movie”.

The ending of Terry Gilliam’s film would have had Doctor Manhatten travel back in time to prevent himself from ever existing, thereby making the main characters of Watchmen, Rorschach, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre characters from a comic book. So basically, they’d just be people dressing up as comic book characters standing around in Times Square taking pictures with kids.

Zack Snyder’s response is great because he says, “It’s funny, because the biggest knock against [my version of] the movie is that we finally changed the ending, right? [But] if you read the Gilliam ending, it’s completely insane.”

It is completely insane. In fact, it’s almost as insane as a multi-billionaire genius spending his fortune on the creation on bringing an inter-dimensional space squid to the Earth so that it would cause the deaths of millions of people.

Snyder goes on to say that “the fans would have stormed the castle on that one. So, honestly, I made Watchmen for myself. It’s probably my favorite movie that I’ve made. And I love the graphic novel and I really love everything about the movie. I love the style. I just love the movie and it was a labor of love. And I made it because I knew that the studio would have made the movie anyway and they would have made it crazy. So, finally I made it to save it from the Terry Gilliams of this world.”

Thank you, Zack Snyder. You are the hero we deserve, but not the one we need right now.

In fact, in order to show UnleashTheFanboy’s journalistic integrity and totally not biased opinions of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, UTF interviewed some of its writers asking them what they think about Snyder and Gilliam’s versions.

Arrow contributor, Wen Henstin said, “Why couldn’t Doctor Manhatten just kill everyone? He doesn’t give a shit.”

Scumbag Dr. Manhatten

David Proute said, “What are you talking about? Zack Snyder is the best director of all time, did you see that slow motion? And that shaky camera? It’s genius. All these mainstream directors and their lame directing. In my day, directors actually had to be creative, now they just use computers or whatever.” But when we pointed out to him that he was using a computer to write his articles, he said “It’s not the same thing.”

Anime editor, Halle Wright said, “Haha! A comic book in a comic book movie? Hey, that’s kind of like how Watchmen had a comic book within a comic book. But then it turned out that that comic book wasn’t actually a comic book but it was a movie, and the movie was a movie and—What was the question?”

Reviews editor, Jason Anheim said, “They shouldn’t have made a Watchmen movie, the book was fine on its own! Alan Moore never wanted a movie.”

There you have it. Keep it UnleashTheFanboy for more “Celebrity Battles!”

SOURCE: IGN