Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

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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.

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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.

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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

Making Watchmen into eye-candy sfxtravaganza is pretty fundamental point-missing.

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

24 Hour Psycho

I can only think of handful of proper superheroic action scenes...

To be fair, most action movies only have three to five big setpieces.

I look forward to you all telling me how horrible this was

It is kind of amazing. The more I learn about this, the more I'm convinced it will be a big bowl of turds, yet I'm almost certainly going to watch it opening weekend anyway.

Did I say amazing? I meant pitiful.

I agree about the turds, but I'll give it a few days to let the crowds die down. Curious to see if the R rating is going to fuck up box office. The promo budget for this is so huge -- if anybody's contract relies on a back-end share of profits, having to recoup promo costs + creative bookkeeping = no "profit" in a million years.

so uh
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my prediction is that the combo of the book's rep + marketing overdrive will guarantee a good opening weekend and then word of mouth will set in and receipts will take a nosedive. Hardcore comic book fandom opinion will be split between those who are smart and those who thought 300 was awesome.

Thank you, Comic Book Morbius

yr welcome. the difference between me and Morbius is that I am occasionally right about things

narcissism of infinitesimal differences

really Shakey, love all things and people, like Dan and Francis of Assissi.

haha Morbz why are you readin this thread (you know I luve ya!)

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