Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

It is like trying to sell guns to the NRA.

BAHAHAHA

They have some sort of communication device.

I gather they've heard of those tubes up in Alaska.

I like how you noticed a hint of "don't let them in my secret garden" comic fans.. kinda like when music elitists hate it when scenesters enjoy THEIR music (the elitists music).

tbh I get just as annoyed by music fans that do this too.

Really, I'm just happy that my friends are now getting into this book and I have people to discuss it with.

as a movie director you're supposed to be an artist yourself, and give us your take of the subject.

Normally I would agree, but I really don't think I want to see Zach Snyder's interpretation of anything.

cool posters

A little something from the bald one. (Not Dr. Manhattan.)

with this, and Oliver Stone's W. trailer, and all those scary goose-bumps-inducing Veidt commercials slated to come with the movie, and their glaringly unmistakable collective vibe just points to one exact thing: the 80's IS coming back. Neither a remake, nor pastiche, and not just in a mere period sense, it's simply returning something fierce. That is the looming zeitgeist.

The '80s

is how it is

My sister-in-law gave me a shirt that said:

I (clip art of a fake Pat Benetar)
80's

It was comfy & fit well, but I'm not all that <3 of 80's..the minor and common style issue in abbreviating that decade was what really kept me from wearing the shirt, ever.

Asshole message end.

can a zeitgeist really "loom"?

it is simply returning something fierce

A zeitgeist is, translated extremely literally, a 'time ghost,' so I think it can't do anything but loom.

i've always been partial to the idea of a leering zeitgeist

like damn 2008 is durnk and keeps licking its teeth at me wtf

i think geist means 'spirit' more than ghost as in the 'spirit of the age'

Imagine Boo-berry in a tardis, and somehow he is wicked looming with some American Psycho-throwback regeneration brought about by a trailer for a movie about the 21st century's president. Fuck!

im not saying that it can't loom

abbott you have destroyed my mind

Yeah, it is 'spirit of the times' but geist can also mean ghost. I find it amusing to be way too literal in any language. Plz ignore.

Srsly how is a trailer w/a young 'Dubya' proving it is now THE '80s.

yeah I don't get the Dubya connection at all. When I think 80s I don't think Dubya. (W will be way better than this, btw!)

he was young(er) in the 80s. IT MAKES THE SENSE.

i guess we all were

I was reading a "Weekly Reader" about the 1988 Olympics in that looming zeitgeist.

"booberry in a tardis" MEANS something to me.

How can I avoid this looming zeitgeist? Is there an antidote?

Lemme guess - I'm supposed to BUY something.

Knock booberry out of tardis, vote Obama.

i re-read my copy of watchmen last nite, just 4 tha hell of it

it kinda... isn't that good

challops!

I do wonder what makes you say that.

I watched the 'motion comic' of the first issue of Watchmen last night. It was VERY not good, and even more pointless than I thought it would be.

Tied for most obnoxious:

a - one guy doing all the voices, including Sally

b - the word balloons appearing on screen as the one guy was reading them

a - one guy doing all the voices, including Sally

this can't be as bad as Moore reading extracts from it himself on The Culture Show last year

What the heck is this "motion comic"?

It's panels from the comic with a little bit of Flash animation and a voice over. Free on iTunes, if you think you can stomach it.

That sounds awful, who would ever think such an idea could work?

I dunno. My excuse for watching it I can't help being curious about strange formalist blends, and that certainly fit the bill. Pure unalloyed fail, though.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/15768/1/SDCC08-ZACK-SNYDER-INTERVIEW-WATCHMEN/Page1.html

that "Page1" in the url is a big tease. I thought there would be a lot more to it than just 500 words of fluff like "I like Iron Man and the Dark Knight but this is different."

I believe the crux of the movie is that it offers a moral choice. That is Watchmen. Let's just say that, without getting too spoilerish, a certain character in the movie survives that.

Rorschach lives = fuck that shit

haha guess I shoulda read the rest of the paragraph first

Dude, maybe you should unclench and give it a rest until the release date's less than SEVEN MONTHS AWAY.

Unless you're actually Alan Moore.

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/blogs/angry%20users.JPG

sorry I had to sit through the preview last night and it got me all angried up again

Preview really does not bode well.

britishes did not get pre-batman preview ;_;

At IMAX there was a pre-batman preview apparently, although I arrived late and didn't see it.

Around here, Chicago, the trailer was only attached to the IMAX Batman (that I'm aware of anyway). It didn't point out that Watchmen will be getting an IMAX release as well, which kinda surprises me. I didn't think they'd be expecting the huge numbers to justify that. It only seems like the mega-franchises get IMAX treatment - Harry Potter, Spider-Man, etc.

It didn't point out that Watchmen will be getting an IMAX release as well, which kinda surprises me.

Yours didn't? Weird, the IMAX trailer for it last night was very specifically pushing the 'Experience it in IMAX' part.

I'm sorry, it DID point that out. Long day, etc etc.

http://io9.com/5034332/nite-owls-ship-has-more-curves-than-a-race-track

little behind the scenes thing with the nite owl ship.