Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

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That Youtube link (Dr. Manhattan) is great. Have a feeling this movie will be surprisingly awesome.

I love that clip!! I'm so excited for this movie, March can't come soon enough. Everything I'm seeing just looks better than I could have imagined.

hey guyz it's the official Watchmen movie halloween costumes!

http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/photos/costumes-ozy-com.jpg

Ozymandias and Super Mario, finally together!

wow, that is just... something.

http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/photos/costumes-niteowl-ror.jpg

you gotta hope that alan moore is at least having a good laugh about this.

My grandfather had the same pants as Nite Owl.

No codpieces no cred.

night owl does look suitably dumpy tho'.

too bad they're not going to be able to use this one:

http://boingboing.net/images/LilbabySquirt.gif

you gotta hope that alan moore is at least having a good laugh about this.

nuh-uh.

New stills, including Dr. M invading Moloch's "Vice Den" and opening up some vengeanec on the patrons:

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Some more good stuff on the New Frontiersman Friend Feed...

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Vietcong surrender to Dr. M.

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http://www.thenewfrontiersman.net/no-more-masks.mp3

Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but apparently the Black Freighter story is to be released on DVD as an animated film shortly after the movie comes out. Bonus features are said to include live-action "footage" from Under the Hood.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/defamer/2009/01/watchmen-tron.jpg

Also

http://www.minutemenarcade.com/uk/

http://thefilmstage.com/2009/02/13/30-new-watchmen-photos/

I was at the bookstore the other night browsing through the new "The Art of Watchmen" companion book to the movie, and I'm pretty firmly convinced that this is actually going to be OK, provided Snyder has gotten real performances out of these people. In regards to whatever changes he's made to the ending -- which I'm not going to spoil for anyone here -- he actually had Dave Gibbons and John Higgins ink and color new pages for them, then storyboarded and scripted based on those, so that he could retain fidelity to the "source material."

There's also a great book called "Watchmen Portraits," with all kinds of full-page B&W photos of cast and crew taken by the set photographer. Some really good work in there.

"provided Snyder has gotten real performances out of these people"

A rather bold assumption.

Well, dude who plays The Comedian was fantastic on Grey's Anatomy.

Alex, yeah, I know, but Haley and Wilson are, frankly, ringers, as is Crudup, kinda. The rest are wild cards.

xp to Dan, he was also good on WEEDS as Dead Husband Guy

xp to Dan, he was also good on WEEDS as Dead Husband Guy

IIRC, he had one scene!

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailers/341388/watchmen-tales-of-the-black-freighter.jhtml

> In regards to whatever changes he's made to the ending -- which I'm not going to spoil for anyone here -- he actually had Dave Gibbons and John Higgins ink and color new pages for them, then storyboarded and scripted based on those, so that he could retain fidelity to the "source material."

That's the weirdest def. of source material I've ever heard.

First clips are available. Bitching about plot changes, acting and lol slow-mo may commence . . . now.

Hmmm, not encouraged by that clip for a number of reasons.

not a large number, perhaps, but more than "several"

The score is going to kill me if the slomo doesn't. Veidt's accent and overall frailty are a bit suspect, but damn if that isn't Dan Dreiberg standing there.

World's First Movie Tie-in Coffee

Made with real 100% Columbian Owl Pellets!

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Better this than a Taco Bell cup. I guess.

oops, xp

Click through on my last post to the other clips -- there's one of the Nite Owl/Silk Spectre fire rescue, and one of Nite Owl and Rohrshach talking.

There is a coffee of a whole TV station!

didn't Lynch have a coffee tie-in promotion for 'INLANDEMPIRE'? that one early scene almost felt like the movie was a made just to promote the coffee!

It's Rorschach who visits Veidt, not Dreiberg! I demand my money back!!

Working Prof. Milton Glass into Veidt's dialogue was pretty nice though.

I haven't seen 300, does Snyder always use this much Matrix-style slow motion? Because it might look cool in an action movie but it looks silly in Watchmen.

lol basically that filming technique is the entire point of "300"

I wonder if Snyder has boosted the action quotient in the film to make it more appealing, because in the comic there isn't really that much action, is there? I can only think of handful of proper superheroic action scenes...

* Dan and Laurie fighting against gang members.
* Rorschach trying to escape from the cops.
* Dan and Laurie rescuing people from the apartment fire.
* Rorschach escaping from prison.
* The final confrontation with Veidt.

That's pretty much it, I think.

ugh, that's bad news then. (I never saw 300.)
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looking forward to lots of slo mo pomo convo imo

they should slow it down so much it just becomes a series of still images