I liked V for Vendetta, though it's nothing like the graphic novel. Maybe that's why I was able to enjoy it, because I separated the two. One of Alan Moore's goals whenever he writes for comics is to try and emphasize the things that make comics such a unique medium, and that pretty much guarantees that it won't translate very well to other media. Watchmen, on the other hand, was a mess. I still have not been able to finish watching it because it tries too hard to be faithful to the graphic novel and fails so poorly.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy would not have worked for me if I'd read the books first. Reading them afterwards, I could see a number of areas where I would have been disappointed in the films. And I don't think that I would have enjoyed Fight Club (the book) nearly as much as I did had I not seen Fight Club (the film) first. The movie gave me a bit of an anchor point for a book that otherwise doesn't seem cohesive enough.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy would not have worked for me if I'd read the books first. Reading them afterwards, I could see a number of areas where I would have been disappointed in the films. And I don't think that I would have enjoyed Fight Club (the book) nearly as much as I did had I not seen Fight Club (the film) first. The movie gave me a bit of an anchor point for a book that otherwise doesn't seem cohesive enough.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould