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FinderWolf
16:08 / 06.03.08
I feel like Ozy's outfit didn't need to be quite so Batman-esque.... but it seems like it might work.

Is that a laurel wreath around his temples, or some weird sculpting of his hair?

Who is that Ozy actor, anyway? he does look like a teenager.

The rest look pretty good. I wonder about the psuedo-Batman 'ears' of Nite Owl -- but I guess maybe the original Gibbons design was too impractical/looked even more ridiculous when done with real costumes...?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:43 / 06.03.08
Who is that Ozy actor, anyway?

Dude.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
20:45 / 06.03.08
Who is that Ozy actor, anyway? He does look like a teenager.

Indeed. Presumably they've had to take a few liberties with the text though (assuming the shot of Jackie Earle Haley above isn't a cruel joke, Rorschach and the Comedian seem about the same age) so it might work.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
23:08 / 06.03.08
ooooorrrrrrr, these pics reffer to the Watchmen while they were still active.

i hope that's it because, apart from Rorsch, those didn't work for me. but i'm giving the benefit of doubt for the movie. the NY sets look great.
 
 
wicker woman
05:32 / 19.05.08
Watchmen set diary.

Not sure if anyone has seen this, but if this is any indication of the amount of attention to detail they intend to pay, I could be considerably less worried about the movie.

Apparently, they intend to post a new video once a month, so this could be something to keep an eye on.

I, for one, would like to see more character studies. There's been precious little on what many of the actors will look like in costume. Or a trailer of some sort.
 
 
deja_vroom
14:35 / 28.05.08
So... you guys seen this?

Very cool.
 
 
CameronStewart
18:30 / 17.07.08
TRAILER.

I watched it three times. I got chills. I love it.

LOVE IT.
 
 
akira
18:54 / 17.07.08
The page cannot be found!
 
 
akira
18:55 / 17.07.08
Prick tease!
 
 
CameronStewart
19:05 / 17.07.08
I think it's collapsed from server overload.

Here's a youtube version that's considerably lower-res.
 
 
Mark Parsons
19:19 / 17.07.08
it needs a shot of Rorschach dangling from a giant pair of juicy LIPS, as in the SPIRIT trailer.
 
 
Spaniel
19:24 / 17.07.08
Trailer was up too early. Will reeappear on the Empire site tomorrow
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:05 / 17.07.08
You can still see the trailer here. It's very, very low-res, but who can wait for tomorrow??? (scroll down and click on the Trailer 1 icon)

I liked the trailer. The cool, moody song fits perfectly, The Dr. Manhattan visual effects are beautiful (as far as I could tell), and the costumes have just the right amount of tackiness to remind us we are in a different, eerily gritty, universe.

Alan Moore is still gonna hate it, tho
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
20:17 / 17.07.08
i didn't like it. i dunno if the low res version had anything to do with it, but it felt to me like a bad tv show pilot. the speed ramp camera effect yet again? that is beyond Old. it's not SPIRIT-bad, but has a lot to do before i'm conviced.

and the BATMAN AND ROBIN Smashing Pumpkins song?

 
 
Poke it with a stick
20:29 / 17.07.08
io9 has the trailer up there too - seems to be running ok for me.
 
 
deja_vroom
21:56 / 17.07.08
and the BATMAN AND ROBIN Smashing Pumpkins song?

Maybe the jock is just joking. You know, pulling the fanboys' legs...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:15 / 17.07.08
Or maybe, as one of the comments on that last link says, he's aiming to switch this around and use a comic-to-movie adaptation to deconstruct comic-to-movie adaptations. It's a stretch, but, whatever the case, I can't see there being any way that the use of that bit of music is coincidental.

I like the trailer - it shows a lot of promise. I'm still not at all keen on the look for the Silk Spectre, and Veidt looks far too young, but other than that it's all good. Especially liking the scenes from the Jon/Laurie Mars chapter. Very surprised that that's made it into the film, and it can only suggest good things - that entire chapter in the comics is dialogue and character-building, so seeing it get included in the adaptation is promising.

I remain doubtful that we'll see a wibbly imaginary alien at the end of it all, tho.
 
 
deja_vroom
22:27 / 17.07.08
So far I think I'm gonna like it. I like the sequence where they show the Comedian's coffin, and then they cut to show him younger, using his flamethrower on a vietcong and smiling like a child. Tomorrow I'm gonna check that super hero movie that people are saying is so dark. But man, come 2009...
 
 
CameronStewart
00:06 / 18.07.08
HD version.
 
 
Aha! I am Klarion
03:46 / 18.07.08
I am kind of embarrassed to admit that that I really love that Smashing Pumpkin song despite the association to the "gay" batman.

But the doom and gloom really fits the Watchmen's tone really well.
 
 
PatrickMM
05:04 / 18.07.08
Alan Moore dies a little inside every time you click on that trailer!

I don't think the film's really going to work, the dialogue in the trailer is weak, and for all the attention lavished on matching the visual world of the comic, I don't get any sense of the characters as real people. Of course, it is a two minute trailer, but 300 was a two hour movie without anything resembling real emotion, so Snyder doesn't have the best track record.

Still, they put together some cool stuff for the trailer. I love that shot on Mars, as well as Lori kissing Dr. Manhattan. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how the film is.
 
 
wicker woman
08:33 / 18.07.08
I can live with the dialogue; in all likelihood, Rorscharch's line there probably won't even be in the movie.

Fantastic trailer! And yes, let's not have a song tainted forever by its previous associations... after all, they've got Blue Oyster Cult selling cars now.

Visually, it looks pitch-perfect. Still oddly disappointed at the Dr. Manhattan undies; are we US audiences still that afraid of the penis? It's going to be R-rated, so dangling sclongs are ok, so long as they're not being stuck into anything.
 
 
Spaniel
08:36 / 18.07.08
That line of R's is a direct lift from the comic, no? I fully expect it to be left in - it's a quintessentially Rorschach moment.
 
 
CameronStewart
08:59 / 18.07.08
When Manhattan materializes in the cafeteria, the "God shot," he looks nude to me, also in the shot of him in triplicate. Maybe they've blurred out the junk a bit but he's not wearing the undies.
 
 
CameronStewart
09:00 / 18.07.08
Also, how can you judge the dialogue? There's two lines in the trailer - one of which is almost verbatim from Moore.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
12:59 / 18.07.08
I was gonna say... Patrick, it's really hard to tell with the dialogue, cause it was a pretty much just a visual teaser trailer.

For me, the only thing I didn't like about it was the way Doc glows so heavily all the time. I guess it makes some sense, but it really throws me off and makes me afraid of a possibly heavy CGI presence in the film.
 
 
FinderWolf
13:19 / 18.07.08
The black 'undies' on Doc Manh. are a (minor) plot point in the graphic novel, if you recall - he doesn't have them at all when he is first 'created,' and then he wears clothes in his first TV appearances; during the Vietnam War he is wearing the 'undies', and as he rapidly grows to care less and less what the humans think, he dispenses with them or indeed, any clothes, altogether. I think Cam's right on the money by saying they will blur his junk when he's naked to avoid the censors giving the movie a hard time (no pun intended), but otherwise it will be as it was in the comic.
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
13:47 / 18.07.08
Yeah, The Comedian might shoot a pregnant vietnamese girl in the stomach, We'll see a convict get his throat sliced, Thousands die in the streets of New York...

But heaven forbid we see a Blue godling's "junk".

Hollywood, Censors, Parents Groups etc... are really messed up.
 
 
Seth
13:52 / 18.07.08
Agreed on the appalling dialogue. That "Your bullets cannot harm me... for I am Doctor Manhattan!" line was really jarring.
 
 
CameronStewart
14:25 / 18.07.08
Yeah, The Comedian might shoot a pregnant vietnamese girl in the stomach, We'll see a convict get his throat sliced, Thousands die in the streets of New York...

But heaven forbid we see a Blue godling's "junk".

Hollywood, Censors, Parents Groups etc... are really messed up.


It bears repeating that this is only a two minute trailer and not the actual, R-rated film itself, so we don't really know what's going to be seen or not seen yet.
 
 
Colonel Kadmon
15:43 / 18.07.08
Hated the song. Loved the trailer. All the hair stood up on my arms. Like what happens in the trailer. I would have been happy so long as they didn't change the plot, but now... I can't wait.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:49 / 18.07.08
I really love that Smashing Pumpkin song despite the association to the "gay" batman.

Well, thank Christ it will be redeemed by its association with a comics property as 100% straight-up vanilla heteronormative as WATCHMEN. Enjoy your hundreds of panels of lovingly-rendered cocks and asses!
 
 
FinderWolf
17:25 / 18.07.08
That trailer is indeed pretty astounding. This looks like it could be quite good...
 
 
wicker woman
04:51 / 19.07.08
how can you judge the dialogue?

Not sure if you were referring to me or not, but I personally don't have a big problem with the sparse dialogue that was in the trailer; I was mostly replying to patrick.

For me, the only thing I didn't like about it was the way Doc glows so heavily all the time. I guess it makes some sense, but it really throws me off and makes me afraid of a possibly heavy CGI presence in the film.

I think I remember reading somewhere that Snyder is trying to use real sets as much as humanly possible; that said, I think CGI effects for a lot of this movie are pretty much a given, especially as concerns Doc Manhattan. I can't help but think that the experiences of Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn scared people the hell away from blue body makeup...
 
 
wicker woman
05:05 / 19.07.08
From the wiki:
In addition, a dozen short films (each around twenty minutes in length) will be released on the internet, using narration over the panels of the comic strip to familiarize newcomers to the story.

That... is actually a nifty idea. People would obviously be better off buying the book themselves, but barring that, this could work.
 
  

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