New Watchmen Trailer
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From Yahoo! Movies:
Is it just me, or is Rorschach’s gravelly voice even worse than Batman’s? I’m still not impressed, even though it looks like they’re taking it very seriously. I hate slow-mo, and I hate CGI, and I hate wired-up stunts. Oh well. I’ll wait until the movie comes out to judge it harshly.
Too bad I already read the script and think it’s gonna suck. What do you folks think?
Based on the director’s past experience, it’ll either be a supbar action flick with way too much writhing or a pretty good zombie movie. And since there aren’t any zombies in Watchmen (as far as I can remember), I’m not expecting much.
Is that Rorschach or Wolverine from the X-Men animated series?
You take that back Fang! “DOTD” was an absolute turd!
I think it’s either Wolverine or Piccolo from Dragonball Z.
NERD ALERT!
DOTD was probably the second best of the “modern” zombie movies. It doesn’t hold a candle to the original Dead trilogy, but it’s good.
FFD is right. While the new DOTD wasn’t as good as the original, it was still pretty good, due in no small part to the minimal writhing. Though it would have been way better (and more contemporary) if they were holed up a Wal-Mart.
Gotta disagree. Watchmen will be both a critical and commercial smash, second only to Dark Knight (IMHO the BEST superhero movie ever made, by a wide margin). This will be a billion dollar franchise when it is all said and done. Of course, nobody wants Watchmen Babies or any kind of sequel not written by Moore, which is always a danger with something as successful as I predict this will be.
I also have zero problem with either Batman or Rorschach’s voice.
This looks spot on to the comic, according to Kevin Smith it is “3 times as accurate as Sin City or 300”.
I guess we’ll see next March…
Ugh. Fox needs to sue harder.
I’m…cautiously optimistic. Footage looks pretty close so far, and Rorschach’s voice seems to fit even if it doesn’t fit my expectation (I always sort of read him sounding like the Question from JLU, ironically). Needless to say, I’ll see it and I’ll do so opening night. If it sucks, I’ll still have the graphic novel.
As for the trailer…there was no group in the book called “the Watchmen,” right? I’m not confused on that?
That’s one of the things they changed for the movie, Matt. They were the Minutemen in the book.
They also have Night Owl kill Ozymandias in the movie. Oops, spoiler alert!
I dunno… Watchmen is such a product of its time, do you think any adaptation of it can succeed the further we get from that time? So much “emotional investment” in that tale is dependent on being involved in that time, if the director works hard to make up the generation gap and bring us into the story and connect with the characters… maybe.
Discussion point: is it better if Watchmen was updated for “the 21st century” or if it remained faithful to the story?
I will say Rorscharch’s voice is how I’ve always heard it in my head. (Just imagine it saying the line “I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re all trapped in here with me.”)
Really? Doesn’t that like… undercut the whole point? Kind of like a movie where Ahab catches Moby Dick at the end.
I imagine that’s the result of a bunch of producers saying “Trust us … we know what the people want.”
Great Jim, now you’ve given me nightmares about a new, updated Moby Dick with Johnny Depp as Ahab and…
Oh wait.
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