Comments on: Road to Perdition (2002) https://thegoodsreviews.com/road-to-perdition-2002/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=road-to-perdition-2002 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Sat, 27 May 2023 12:29:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Dan S https://thegoodsreviews.com/road-to-perdition-2002/#comment-1291 Sat, 27 May 2023 12:29:39 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=6800#comment-1291 In reply to Hunter Allen.

I’ve actually never read the comics either, although I feel like I have just from watching this. Watchmen definitely feels just as much, or more, a “graphic novel storyboarded straight to screen” as Road to Perdition even though it rewrites the whole alien squid element. Need to see 300 again

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/road-to-perdition-2002/#comment-339 Sat, 19 Nov 2022 22:20:36 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=6800#comment-339 Aw, too bad. This is like my no. 3, I think, Hanks movie. I really love the way it uses his persona, even as he actively fights against it and the character itself is so anti-Hanks in every respect beyond being the audience stand-in’s dad. Maybe it’s more interesting in a meta, mechanical way, but as you say, it looks awfully good, and I at least found it to be pretty emotional at bootom.

Does it help if I never read the comic book? It probably wouldn’t matter too much either way, but then, if I ever rated Watchmen I feel like I’d have to give it an N/A rather than an actual score because it really is just the freaking comic and freaking comic known for popularizing “cinematic” style in the sense of using a simulacrum of duration, etc. (It’s a formalist masterpiece of comics for other reasons beyond that and for reasons absolutely embedded in the page, but you know what I mean.) But even though I like the guy, I’d be readier to give Snyder more credit for 300 just because at least that isn’t determining editing rhythms and composition.

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