Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

wow, yeah.. i think they were better off with the shitty billy corgan trailer.

the worst bit is how the trailer hints that the superhero group is called "the watchmen" ; that's really annoying me!! hopefully the movie doesn't do that.

would it really be that big a deal if they changed "crimebusters" into "watchmen"? it's kind of the least of my worries based on the trailer.

okay i guess in watching this for a second time, it might appeal to people who havent read the comic and are intrigued.

but not a trailer for fans, that's for certain.

trailer confirms this is gonna be retardo but epic

i just hope it's not as boring as bonfire of the vanities

> Er, just because they changed the shape of the blot a bit doesn't mean it won't symbolize the same things...

if it's going to symbolise the same things and you've got a perfectly good design already then why change it? if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Apparently the dialogue in the trailer may have been edited to take out references to 'crimebusters', replacing them with 'Watchmen' because, you know, it's an advert and the idea is to bury 'WATCHMEN' into your subconscious by repeating it over and over again.

i don't care either way. so much will be lost in conversion regardless. i am kinda interested in the reasons why they have changed certain things tho.

i don't suppose the whole Big Figure sequence will be in this will it? is Rorschach staying masked throughout?

and the effects don't look all that either

they look as good as greenscreen permits

big figure is in this

i just hope it's not as boring as bonfire of the vanities

― da croupier, Friday, November 14, 2008 3:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

weird comparison!

heh anthony compares everything to de palma!

big figure is in this

daamn, so what HAVE they cut from the main story?

apparently it's pretty close for the most part!

this version is supposedly the most faithful of all the attempts at adapting the GN so far. doesn't mean it will work, obv.

wait, why is cankles angry at me? should I even care?

re: bonfire - hey, if people are excited to see an '80s literary pop masscult item transformed into a bonkers big budget epic with questionable casting by a guy addicted to slo-mo, it might be worth remembering that they're not always entertaining, intentionally or otherwise.

I read that old "Watchmen" script from years ago that wass linked upthread. I liked the ending! It was funny. It would have made a good TV movie or serial.

For what it's worth, an answer of sorts re: the characters saying "Watchmen" in the trailer:

http://chud.com/articles/articles/17048/1/ZACK-SNYDER-EXPLAINS-WHO-THESE-quotWATCHMENquot-ARE/Page1.html

"The original team we called the Minutemen, as per the graphic novel. We never exactly say whether or not in the more modern version we call them the Watchmen/Crimebusters. We loosely called them Watchmen as more of a symbolic name, more than anything else."

http://gardnerlinn.com/watchmensquidhope2.jpg

oh dear god

We loosely called them Watchmen as more of a symbolic name, more than anything else.

oh shut up

ALL NAMES ARE SYMBOLIC, HENCE THEM BEING "NAMES"

YOUR NAME IS SYMBOLIC OF A FRIENDLY GREETING

ALSO: BUTTSECKS

Crotchmen

I don't really like Rorschach's use of "costumed heroes" anyway (does he really think of himself as a hero?). I've figured out who he sounds like tho, a gravellier Admiral Adama from BSG.

um, yeah I'm pretty sure Rorschach does see himself as a hero? He has a pretty black and white sense of morality.

> He has a pretty black and white sense of morality.

Mask=symbolic!

http://io9.com/5089745/watchmen-goes-disco

I suppose the part about him becoming Rorschach rather than just playing him, and the mask becoming his skin etc. shows his contempt with playing the masked-hero vigilante. But it's rather than he is contemptuous that beforehand he wasn't sufficiently violent and extreme in the retribution he meted out to criminals.

rather than him completely seeing through the vigilante as hero idea.

plus he is motivated primarily by the need to protect himself and his comrades, by solving the murder mystery - having kinda given up on humanity or society generally.

3/the dialog in the comic, it wasn't THAT stoopid, was it?

Some needs to rescreen the book.

SomeONE kthx

yeah most of that dialogue is p much verbatim

this movie will be exactly like the comic in one regard: a hamfisted heavy ass handed piece of garbage for aspie goons that thought no country for old men was too complicated

I believe I may qualify.

It's been a few years since I last read the book, it's true. I guess I should pull it off the shelf and read it through again.

http://www.megomuseum.com/custom/davemccormick/watchmen.jpg

HD trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

Maybe this trailer does give away the plot, but it makes absolutely no sense to me (I haven't read the book).

lol nite owl action figure looks profoundly uncomfortable

maybe because his goggles are tight enough to crush his left eye socket?

that was just a homemade action figure btw

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3240/watchpeanutssn7.jpg

in case you missed this: http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/2008/08/keep-watching.html

http://io9.com/5100532/new-watchmen-mobile-game-makes-alan-moore-cry

now play watchmen on your cellymophone!

har:

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6615867.html

Long interview with Dave Gibbons, who is apparently a supporter of the upcoming film:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/archaeologizing.html

Meanwhile, Fox wins the lawsuit:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/shocker-federal-judge-to-side-with-fox-in-warner-bros-watchman-lawsuit/

An attorney for 20th Century Fox says the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of 'Watchmen.'

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess last week agreed with Fox that Warner Bros. had infringed its copyright by developing and shooting the superhero flick, scheduled for release March 6.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081229/ap_en_ot/film_watchmen_suit

Boycott Wolverine?
by Immortal_Fish Dec 29th, 2008
07:24:18 PM
If any of you were true comic geeks with any respect for the source material, you would have banned Wolverine from the very beginning, meaning Singer's X-Men 1! And I'm not talking about the lack of yellow spandex. I'm talking about who Singer cast for the role.

A six-foot, thirty-something chick-magnet should NEVER have played Wolverine!

A six-foot, thirty-something chick-magnet should NEVER have played Wolverine!

A six-foot, thirty-something chick-magnet should NEVER have played Wolverine!

Wolverine is a five-foot, ugly sixty-something. The role should have gone to Harvey Keitel. Mel Gibson perhaps in *this* day and age as opposed to in the 90's when he was originally speculated, but even that was a stretch. And you Danzig assholes can lick mine. But even now, still to this day, you bitches claim how Singer was SO faithful to the source material." PHOOEY!

And NOW you talk of Wolverine boycott? Now? It took a DC one-shot story to move you to such extent that you consider boycotting WINO? Please. Only Jessica Alba tops Jackman for worst comic casting ever.