Killing the watchmen (and yourself)

Well, I unlike that unwashed mass I know and love as Andymac have to side with Alan Moore. The truth is that films kill.

There will never be another 16 year old who is woefully out of the loop when it comes to the opposite sex, parties, sports or the inner workings of the cool circle at school, who can get some modicum of pleasure from reading it. (I very uncoolly didn't read it til I was 23 and hadn't been a virgin for a while.) There will be no sense of being part of an elite group, those who are in the know about something culturally significant and more importantly subversive.

Instead, the watchmen comic book has lost all this value to him, infact I am so far from being cool in that sense I have no idea where this kid can now turn, maybe drinking Delsym cough syrup and reading faust. All I know is that now that the kids who are having all the sex and the good grades are watching it in a movie, there is no pervasive value to it, its simply a relatively alright movie (-5 from V for Vandetta, +5 from Sin City.)

The only value it has left, are to those who have some nostalgic memory of reading it on a winter saturday night while everyone you knew was out somewhere doing things you wished you desperately were too. So if you fall in that group congratulations, you are part of the greatest scams in our culture. Take something you love for being private and subversive, Co-opt it in a more palatable form and sell it off. Than you have effectively destroyed what you loved about it so that way no one after you can ever love it as you did.

You are the last consumer...

congrats, cherish it, cause now when you stop loving it for all those reasons you do, no one will...

Mc +5 from Andymac