Graphic novelist Alan Moore has been called a lot of things—recluse, eccentric, hairy. But one attribute of his that is most over looked is that he’s a realist. So when the LA Times interviewed him about the upcoming film adaptation of his masterwork, The Watchmen, he really didn’t mince any words, saying that he hopes that the lawsuits that are plaguing the release of the film are the results of his cursing it, and that he’ll be spitting venom at any mention of the movie up to and when it’s eventually released. And judging by what he told the Times, the criticism is going to be quite stinging.

“I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying,” Moore told me during an hour-long phone call from his home in England. “It spoon-feeds us, which has the effect of watering down our collective cultural imagination. It is as if we are freshly hatched birds looking up with our mouths open waiting for Hollywood to feed us more regurgitated worms. The ‘Watchmen’ film sounds like more regurgitated worms. I for one am sick of worms. Can’t we get something else? Perhaps some takeout? Even Chinese worms would be a nice change.”

Yeah, but once you’re done with those Chinese film worms, you only want some more soon after. May we suggest some French worms? They’re supposedly better than any other type of worm, regardless of how cheesy they are.

Alan Moore on ‘Watchmen’ movie: ‘I will be spitting venom all over it’ [LA Times]
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