Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

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.

what is the music in the trailer? billy corgan? NiN? something worse?

it's the remix of the smashing pumpkins tune from batman & robin

ha it sounded vaguely familiar. probably all too appropriate.

i don't have much stake in this -- i mostly take slocki's attitude.

but one alarm bell is the fact that in every interview, synder (sp?) seems way more psyched to talk about little fetishistic details like the kind of weaponry used, etc. than about what the thing might be out, what the drama is based on, how the characters interact, etc. i mean, i'm not one who thinks the original comic is a masterpiece or anything but it does have a density that i doubt this film will know how to even approximate. could be wrong though.

thing might be ABOUT

and i realize now it's SNYDER. right?

which kind of looks like a superhero name when you squint

snyderman

Anyone else get the animated webcomic off of itunes while it was still free?

just finished reading it, really enjoyed it (though I'm really excited to hear they're doing an animated treat-up of the sub-comic "Marooned" that appears in the novel???!!)

I thought they showed Osterman killing Rorshach in the trailer, but maybe it wasn't him...they don't show him killing anybody else in the novel, but presumably it was during one of his war conflicts.

anyway, here's hoping Mr. 300 doesn't fuck it up.

He kills a couple of other guys in brief flashbacks in the book - a gang lord and some Vietcong I think.

yea, those were the scenes I was thinking of.

Carla Gugino, though.......boiyoiyoing....

good god man

^

DC's most obscure superhero

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/urgent-warners-watchmen-in-legal%20-peril/

Not likely to prevent the film coming out or anything, though it could mean the end of a three-hour film....

Studios have been trying to make Watchmen into a movie since the 1980s when it originally was published. Producer Joel Silver at one point tried to get Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Dr. Manhattan, and Ah-nuld was said to be willing to shave his head and be painted blue.

http://www.toneoperi.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/mr-freeze.jpg

took a different joel to make it happen

Not so fascinating a chronology as they promised.

apparently dave gibbons likes the movie:

http://watchmencomicmovie.com/081908-watchmen-movie-con-dave-gibbons.php

And who could doubt his motives for praising it?

Kevin Smith:

I saw “Watchmen.” It’s fucking astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the following with complete joygasmic enthusiasm: Snyder and Co. have pulled it off.

Remember that feeling of watching “Sin City” on the big screen and being blown away by what a faithful translation of the source material it was, in terms of both content and visuals? Triple that, and you’ll come close to watching “Watchmen.” Even Alan Moore might be surprised at how close the movie is to the book. March can’t come soon enough.

/shakeybait