is the whole soundtrack gonna be that horrible billy corgan rock
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
According to IMDb the following songs are confirmed to be on the soundtrack:
My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row (cover of a Bob Dylan song to play over the end credits).
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changing (To play over opening credits).
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence.
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
A bit clichéd, but sounds okay!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
some random alien whose supposed threat needs to be boosted with a psychic's brain (the brain bit kinda makes me feel Moore didn't really believe in the ending himself)
once again anything remotely metaphysical irritates Tuomas
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
you know Moore is a "magician" right?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
who cares
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
you're allowed to make whatever point you want but not being able to separate an artist from his work seems like a bit of a stumbling block when it comes to properly evaluating film/music/art/whatever.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
right I was referring to where Tuomas thinks that Moore doesn't "really believe" the ending - doesn't really matter if Moore "believed" it or not, but I don't see any evidence supporting that, given Moore's vocal interest in magic/occult/whathaveyou
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway, that soundtrack looks pretty terrible i gotta say. might as well stick "i feel good" in there for the scene where night owl gets his costume on again.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
looool
"Let's Get It On" interrupted by a record scratch for the scene where he can't get it up
― I'm glad the chihuahua beat it this wkend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahah
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
A bit clichéd
totally. didn't Moore already use some of those exact same songs in the books, like, 20 years ago.
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
? he used one of them. Doubt Snyder wanted to bother licensing shitty Elvis Costello songs or Iggy Pop's "Neighborhood Threat"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Desolation Row and All Along The Watchtower = one song?
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
MEGAMIX!!!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
oh sorry I didn't see that - my eyes glazed over after the words "My Chemical Romance" and the only Dylan song I noticed was "The Times They Are a Changin' Into A Bank Commercial"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
isn't 'unforgettable' in there as well?
― allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes.
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
it is? where? don't remember that one
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
nostalgia ad - see #7, p13, panels 8-9
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ah - I stand corrected thx
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
and I feel like this guy right now:
http://missgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/comic-book-guy.gif
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
the times they are a-changin' is in there too... and while tuomas is painfully off-base on the appropriateness of the soundtrack I have to grant that the dylan shit was kind of dire in the original too
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
That's not really what I meant, rather than the whole idea of the psychic's brain comes from nowhere, and it felt like Moore added it there because the idea of a common alien enemy uniting the US and the USSR is so far-fetched that it needed this silly bit of boosting to make it sound better. Also, the world of Watchmen seem to have any other paranormal things going on... Dr. Manhattan, the only other person with real superpowers, is explained with science (even if it is pseudo-science), so the idea of a psychic strong enough to influence thousands of people feels kinda tacked on compared to the relative realism of the rest of the story. So I'm not complaining about metaphysics per se, rather than Moore using them in a way that doesn't really fit the other parts of the comic.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"the world of Watchmen doesn't seem to have any other paranormal things going on"
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
If a guy who can control atoms and see through time can be explained with science, then psychic powers can be explained with science.
― chap, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
The missing squid doesn't bother me that much, but I *will* be annoyed if you don't see Rorschach's journal arrive at Nova Express' office.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
They couldn't get the John Cale song that concludes everything?
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
The whole thing squid scheme and how it so suddenly achieved peace was always the weakest part of the comic.
I don't even remember it achieving peace...as my brane remembers it it was just like "oh fuck squid, of shit gore, oh man disquieting, ps I finished reading the pirate book."
― Abbott, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/oct/27/watchmen-alan-moore-dave-gibbons?picture=339028360
― chap, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Glad they decided against Rorschach's body stocking.
― chap, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://data.tumblr.com/CJoLlYKtgfleg6n5ZalMznD5o1_500.jpg
― Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else (jeff), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I read something this morning that suggested that the non-squid ending news leak was just them testing the waters and that the squid ending does exist. Can't find the link though...
― Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else (jeff), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/images/2008/11/10/watbn_ozymandias_3.jpg
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/ozymandias.html
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Ronan!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The tagline to that poster kinda reveals the ending of the story, doesn't it? Not that anyone who hasn't already read the comic would guess it.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
you've answered your own question there. it's vague enough, just glad the horned lioness type thing is up in this.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
There's another oblique spoiler in the trailer, in that it cuts from Blake being thrown out the window straight to a shot of Viedt.
― chap, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
how often do you see a cinematic adaptation marketed with a similar aesthetic to the published work? man that typeface is a beacon amongst the madly ugly posters for movies that concern themselves with the fate of the world.
― siskin/skulls, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/watchmen.jpg
― I wonder if birds - even dinosaur birds - were created in mid-air, (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
that poster is terrible!!
check out bubastis tho
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
and what kind of tagline is that?
What is the name of that typeface?
I would so not be sad if it replaced Impact in everything but lolcats.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
they're doing posters for all the main characters:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39054
― I wonder if birds - even dinosaur birds - were created in mid-air, (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://splashpage.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/111008_watchmenexclfull.jpg
― I wonder if birds - even dinosaur birds - were created in mid-air, (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://popwatch.ew.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/10/watchmen_l.jpg
― I wonder if birds - even dinosaur birds - were created in mid-air, (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
this is the only poster i actually like so far:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/1448/watchmenteaserposterxu7.jpg
― I wonder if birds - even dinosaur birds - were created in mid-air, (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
tagline's still kinda ass tho
― I wonder if birds - even dinosaur birds - were created in mid-air, (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The Manhattan one's not bad.
― chap, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
think it's Futura Condensed Bold - pretty much identical to the one used by The Sun for most headlines
and yes Impact must die
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
They should of used this guy as veidt http://seat42f.com/site/images/stories/tvshows/TheMentalist/simon-baker-the-mentalist-tca.jpgthe wrong choice for veidt and the stupid punchlines are the only things I see wrong with this movie so far
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link