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It just reminds me of the Star Wars Prequels
Oh come on, that's harsh. The first two of those were pretty much the least engaging/most aggressively cackhanded big budget movies released in the last twenty years, and therefore probably ever. There's no suggestion in anything I've seen that 'Watchmen' is going anywhere near those depths, artistically.
And I quite like the new trailer, I have to say. I thought the Muse song worked well on the soundtrack, and so on.
All right, it lacks subtlety, perhaps, all thirty seconds of it, but at the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, it's a superhero movie, so initially the producers are bound to market it that way, with explosions, fight scenes, blaring music, etc, in the hope, presumably, that the serious critics (to the extent that those still exist, now a lot of the people who used, traditionally, to own a garden gnome have a blog instead, and there are twenty-odd mags and papers you'd need to get through before you could say there was any kind of consensus) will pick up on the other two and a half hours, once it's on general release.
Really, no wonder the marketing's a bit trashy.
It won't be the film of the comic, of course, but I'm okay with that. I never could stand the 'Black Freighter' stuff, for example - Alan was just upping the page-count, I always felt, the hippie.
And that's beside the point. Which is, what's the use of going to the cinema, or anywhere else, to watch a text you know very well played out in exactly the same way? |
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