Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times: For the record, Alan Moore has not softened his view on Hollywood or its plan to bring his classic graphic novel Watchmen - a dystopian epic that deconstructs the superhero genre - to the screen this spring."I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying," Moore told me during an hourlong 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."Moore is often described as a recluse, but, really, I think it's more precise to say he simply is too busy at his writing desk. "Yes, perhaps I should get out more," he said with a chuckle. The 54-year-old iconoclast is everything his longtime readers would expect - articulate, witty, obstinate and enigmatic. Far from grouchy, he gets an edge in his voice only when he talks about the effect of Hollywood on the comics medium that he so memorably energized in the 1980s with...