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Will you watch these Watchmen?
Ozymandias:
Most of that trailer was shot for shot from the comic.
CamusCanDo:
All I want to see is Billy Cruddup's digitalized blue penis. Goddamn there better be penis.
Alex C:
I can totally understand where Anyways is coming from. Slick isn't really a word that comes to mind with the Watchmen. The characters were intentionally a rather shabby lot; only Dr. Manhattan and (to a much lesser extent; he's freakishly fast but still pretty mundane by comic standards) Ozymandias are superhuman. By the standards of most comics these guys are just a bunch of disturbed shmucks parading around in some strikingly retro costumes (or in an obvious exception, blue and naked). There's times where the Watchmen is aggressively anachronistic in visual style and they often seem to deliberately keep the main characters off frame and instead focus on mundane, gritty or outright ugly details. There wasn't even any goofy stylized comic book sound effects drawn into the action, and for once the naked guy is actually naked! The Watchmen is essentially the anti-Spawn.
I actually feel kind of bewildered and sorry for everyone involved when I think about trying to pull off a Watchmen movie. Converting the Watchmen isn't the same as porting over Batman to the big screen; it's a story, not an icon, and there isn't really an easily accessible mythos attached. As Dark Knight has proven, there's wiggle room for telling your own Batman stories while still reaping the benefits of having characters people are familiar with. I'm not sure if the same could be said of the Watchmen, which puts an awful lot of pressure on director and screenwriter, since the comic is ridiculously dense despite being "only" a dozen issues.
De_El:
Did anyone else notice their choice of song for the trailer and find it ironic?
johnny5:
Saw the trailer, it looked...okay. The trailer song was pretty horrendous, the CGI looked horrible (ship coming out of the water and sort of hovering there for us to see how fake it looks), and none of the actors look that good. The fact the 300 guy is directing it isn't very encouraging either.
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