"I for one am sick of worms." - Alan Moore, WATCHMEN writer

"I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying," Moore told Hero Complex. "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."

NVDL: I can empathise with Moore: "I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen." They also want reality a certain way in the same way they want movies to feel a certain way. Life of course doesn't try to meet box office numbers or try to make a profit. Life simply does what works, what makes sense.

clipped from blog.wired.com "Television and movies have short-circuited reality," Alan Moore told me back in 2004, when his dense classic Watchmen was just a canonical comic rather than a popcorn movie. "I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen." The situation, as the English writer sees it, has only worsened since. His distaste for director Zack Snyder's forthcoming adaptation of Watchmen has gotten nastier, but Moore's having a swell time watching the film get kicked around like a financial football by Fox and Warner Bros.