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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    I have to say, though, that I imagine the costumes will evoke laughs from a lot of audience members who don't know the comics.
    Or how about laughs from the audience members who DO know the comics? I don't remember Night Owl looking all Batman Forever. I'm surprised they didn't give him nipples. Looks like they covered that with Ozymandias, though. Silly. Super silly.

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    I obviously remain cold about this movie because of the reasons mentioned, but those looks are all awesome.

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    I'm not a fan of Watchmen, but apart from feeling a bit derivative, the designs are cool. Speaking of Watchmen, I have Absolute Watchmen and have made two attempts to read through it, but failed each time. No, not a knock on the material which, for a non-comic fan, actually reads wonderfully, but I keep getting sidetracked I suppose.
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    I'm not a fan of Watchmen, but apart from feeling a bit derivative, the designs are cool. Speaking of Watchmen, I have Absolute Watchmen and have made two attempts to read through it, but failed each time. No, not a knock on the material which, for a non-comic fan, actually reads wonderfully, but I keep getting sidetracked I suppose.
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    Ozymandias looks just wrong...

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    Quote Quoting Saya (view post)
    Ozymandias looks just wrong...
    Would you prefer tights and spandex?

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    Quote Quoting Saya (view post)
    Ozymandias looks just wrong...
    echoes of Joel "batnipples" Schumacher?

    the Comedian, Silk Spectre and Rorschach look great though

    I guess Dr Manhattan didn't need a costume test.. *drumroll and crash*

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Would you prefer tights and spandex?
    I'd prefer something without nipples and fake muscles.

    Ozy and Nite Owl costumes are way overproduced.

    It's not just the costume though, I think the actor is miscast as well. He doesn't look right for the part.

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    That Nite Owl cowl is just awful. What is he, 1930s Batman?
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    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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    Ozy looks like Niles Crane in a muscle suit.
    Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.

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    Abs built into costumes... why?
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    Snyder said something long ago about satiring and referencing other comic book movies the way Watchmen did to old Charlton characters, so I'm guessing the Ozymandias nipples is his homage to Schumacher.

    Still looks like ass anyway.
    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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    I was going to say that Silk Spectre image looked nothing like Carla Cugino.

    Then I remembered she's playing the original, and that's an image of the second one.
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    I was kind of expecting Silk Spectre to be wearing silk, but that would be asking too much.
    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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    if anything, i like it.
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    Mixed bag.
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    i kinda like Ozy. the buff-up costume stands in contrast to his childish face.
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    Most of 'em look good to me, especially The Comedian. Love it.

    ::shrugs::

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Would you prefer tights and spandex?
    I would. It would work, thematically, in Watchmen's favor, as a deconstruction of the superhero "genre," rather than this un-ironic edgy Generic Super Hero Movie X crap.

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    Ozymandias doesn't wear tights in the comic. He wears an armor with a robe over it.
    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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    Quote Quoting number8 (view post)
    Snyder said something long ago about satiring and referencing other comic book movies the way Watchmen did to old Charlton characters, so I'm guessing the Ozymandias nipples is his homage to Schumacher.
    makes sense, hope he does not get too much carried away by that though, i'd be pissed if Watchmen turned into Mystery Men 2.

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    Jeffrey Dean Morgan sometimes looks an awful lot like Javier Bardem...

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    Why yes? Sounds pretty silly to me. Its only relevance here seems like its connections within the plot of the Watchmen story. I don't really care about it beyond that. Will there still be sequences of it in the movie?
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    Why yes? Sounds pretty silly to me. Its only relevance here seems like its connections within the plot of the Watchmen story. I don't really care about it beyond that. Will there still be sequences of it in the movie?
    i'm just happy that they're doing the black freighter sequences at all

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