Watchmen poll

roflz

I predict a landslide of epic proportions.

lol "epic proportions"

Option 3 - pet farts.

given that it's being directed by the guy who did 300 i have low hopes

Um BLUE BILLY CRUDUP WANG ahem!

I find myself in the position, once again, of reminding y'all that the source material for 300 was stinky beyond measure. GIGO, yadig?

yeah, I met a guy who said he wont watch this movie because the book was so great

was his last name collier?

yeah, I met a guy who said he wont watch this movie because the book was so great

i fall into the category aswell, but i know i'll cave in and end up disappointed.

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“I would rather not know [about the movie],” said Moore. “[Zack Snyder] may very well be [a very nice guy], but the thing is that he’s also the person who made 300. I’ve not seen any recent comic book films, but I didn’t particularly like the book 300. I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: that it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid. I know that that’s not what people going in to see a film like 300 are thinking about but… I wasn’t impressed with that… I talked to Terry Gilliam in the ’80s, and he asked me how I would make Watchmen into a film. I said, ”Well actually, Terry, if anybody asked me, I would have said, ‘I wouldn’t.”’ And I think that Terry [who aborted his attempted adaptation of the book] eventually came to agree with me. There are things that we did with Watchmen that could only work in a comic, and were indeed designed to show off things that other media can’t.”

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213004,00.html

[21:00] me: i like alan moore gettin worked up about racism and homophobia when most of his funnybooks are filled with well-meaning misogyny
[21:01] jumjum: LOL yeah
[21:01] jumjum: this from the nigger who is writin about like dorothy from the wizard of oz gettin fucked by tin man and the cowardly lion

Lost Girls defs had too few blue wangs/Bohr models on foreheads

Alan Moore's a nigger?

jesse jackson thinks so

Oh my god guys I just watched the preview and it has Le Smashpumps tune that is the rework/b-side of their song 'the thing is the beginning is the stuff' (which I love, btw). You know, their BATMAN song? Wherein they shadow-danced in a giant BATHEAD in the video?

OH YEAH!

Actually the Watchmen trailer got me wicked super stoked and I am actually EXCITED for it rather than EMBARRASSED, which I never could have soothsayed.

Okay I just rewatched that and the Smashing Pumpkins have oficially made 'best video for a motion picture soundtrack, wherein it is required scenes from the movie are cut into the footage." By like 100 country miles.

I like me Abbott's enthusiasm!

I first felt the use of the song was jarring and too much of an overt nod to the 'yeah we're recontextualizing superhero stuff even down to the music DO YOU SEE.' But the pace of the song perfectly suits that of the trailer (be interesting to see what was determined first -- song choice or how the trailer would run) and said slower version was always the one that most attracted me in the first place.

4 REAL

haha i actually instantly thought of ned when i saw the trailer, as if they were marketing this specifically to him.

OMG and whoever that dude playing Veidt is? Wicked sexy!

haha i actually instantly thought of ned when i saw the trailer, as if they were marketing this specifically to him.

Beautiful. (Now playing -- the "End is the Beginning..." single, with both versions of the song plus the two instrumental acoustic guitar variations.)

I had that wrong, electric guitar actually. Memories, tricks on the brain.

Next trailer will be the whole damn EP, yes, with all the cut footage from the movie.

Hahah, I'd actually forgotten the second instrumental version is essentially Billy's attempt at creating an Alan Wilder-written B-side for Depeche circa 1989. And Flood wasn't even the producer on this one!

Yeah, I did totally like the way the slowdown at the end of the song synched up with Dr. M's castle rising out of the sand on Mars. That was, as the vernacular would have it, "the shit." Also, lots more detail visible in the trailer when one sees it on the big screen: Partially-formed Dr. M, bone and muscle visible, slamming through the hallway, the Owlship cruising over the protestors with The Comedian standing on the window outside of it, the Egyptian motif stuff in Veidt's office when he takes down the assassin, all excellent.

I couldn't figure out at first where this shot of Silk Spectre dropping into a fiery hallway came from until I saw the Owlship cruising through the fire, and remembered the rooftop rescue scene. Duh.

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I lol'ed when the trailer narrator said "from the visionary director of 300"

The people have spoken.

because of the wang

Clearly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/paul-krugman-fake-alien-invasion_n_926995.html

ehhhhhh

fucking awful film

"from the visionary director of that owl movie"