When I heard that they were going to make a movie of the Watchmen graphic novel. I had to ask why.

I'd only read it for the first time this year, but it still had a huge affect on me and I can see how people two decades ago would've shit bricks after reading it. There's just so much story packed into the 12 issues that any movie version would be just a mere shade of the original.

Then I saw the teaser and it blew my mind (well everything except the god awful Smashing Pumpkins song they used to promote the Batman and Robin movie). It looks like they've captured the general feel book at least. For the first time i wasn't quietly mortified about the idea of a Watchmen movie.

But then Twentieth Century Fox smelled money and raised up from the black pit waving the "true" rights to the Watchmen franchise and asking for their share. Surely they could've let everyone know they might have an issue with this movie being made without their permission a year ago. Before they started filming the goddamn thing.

So if they're going to be dicks, then I can as well. I'm hereby boycotting all Twentieth Century Fox movies until this crap gets sorted out. There's a few big blockbuster movies in that list:

• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• X-Men Origins: Magneto
• S. Darko
• Halo
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian

I won't be watching any of these. Not in the cinema, not even a screener. I'm that serious.

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