As good a piece of news as that is, I'm just pissed the fuck off that they're even thinking of making this movie.Quoting Acapelli (view post)
As good a piece of news as that is, I'm just pissed the fuck off that they're even thinking of making this movie.
That's fucking stupid.
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"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Yeah.... it is.
how so?
other than "oh it's the watchmen, it shouldn't be made"
well it's being made, and i'm glad that it seems like Zach Snyder really wants to try to do it justice (operative word: try). i mean even if it is a spectacular failure, as most of you seem to have pre-determined it will be, at least they have decided to adapt all the aspects of the novel rather than half-assing it.
How does taking making the story-within-the-story of the original book into its own feature really add anything? It is solely, as the article suggests, a marketing ploy designed to make money. That's fine for them, but I don't really care.
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Yeah, I don't take this as good news, for the reasons Raiders describes.
I don't know whether it will be feature-length or not, but either way, the story would have to be padded out quite a bit, I would think. And I don't really trust that to go over well at all.
yes, it is a marketing ploy, but to say it's solely a marketing ploy is to hold a slightly cynical viewpoint. watchmen isn't a big property on the level of spider-man and batman.
I see. I missed that in the article. So what I'm getting in the theater will excise all that material? I guess I'll just wait for the DVD then.
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Yeah, on second thought, if Tales of the Black Freighter is not inserted into the main narrative, it makes zero sense to have it there at all. It's not like it's an EXCELLENT pirate tale. It's a pulp metaphor that paralells the storyline.
That's the thing. Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood, by themselves, are useless. It's a fucking stupid idea to watch them separately. They're parallel stories, for god's sake. That's the whole point and intent of Black Freighter, to mirror what's happening with the Crimebusters and provide a raw survivalist and savage context to them surviving the political crisis. Either throw that out completely or edit them together to make the argument. People are supposed to watch Watchmen and then 5 days later buy an anime on DVD that vaguely mirrors certain scenes from a movie they saw in theaters days ago? What the hell is the point?
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Wrote something rather lengthy about this. Apparently I'm more passionate about this project than I really care to be. *sigh*
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I sympathize. I feel the same way every time I get on the topic of Star Wars.
So, saw the trailer before TDK.
Eeeh. The visuals look impressive, but it's still using that fast-motion-slow-motion editing shit that I can't fucking stand. And they keep hiding Dr. Manhattan's dick in a dark shadow that just appears on his crotch for no reason. Lame.
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Did they also show the Terminator: Salvation trailer?
I'm actually more interested in that than Watchmen.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
No, because I saw it on IMAX, so only IMAX trailers. This and Harry Potter.
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I'd highly doubt they show Doc's dick in a trailer.
I just reread Watchmen yesterday, and I'm pretty pumped if nothing except a good performance out of Jackie Earle Haley.
Sure why not?
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Duh! I didn't even think of that. Maybe they'l show it in the movie, but the way it looks in the trailer was ridiculous. His crotch is just dark when the rest of him is bright blue.
Jackie Earle Haley sounded like he was trying to imitate Bale's Batman voice.
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Was this just the blank screen, line of dialogue, and title I read about, or an actual teaser?
Just the blank screen and title. Everyone laughed at how pointless it was.
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Agreed that style is truly awful. I don't mind regular motion to slow motion and back to regular that much.
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Any word on what this will be rated?
The comic book would be an R, and they managed to do great business with 300 despite its R rating.
I would hope they wouldn't cower under the almighty PG-13.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Snyder has said it will be rated R and close to 3 hours in length.
Sure why not?
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"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Oh cool.
Well, I hope it's not just visual flare. I enjoyed 300 as a loud-and-mean piece of popcorn entertainment, but looking at it deeper in any way hurts the brain.
I really don't think this one will do well at all, unless it has a marketing campaign like The Dark Knight. Not enough people know the "Watchmen" book, and I bet the trailers will get a lot of laughs due to the admittedly silly costumes.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
So, my mistake. Seeing the trailer a second time, the weird dark spot on his crotch was his speedo. Heh
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