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None of you matter. They do not care about you. They will strip the meat off thew carcass
While I take your point HB, is this actually true as it applies to 'Watchmen', what with it being the holy grail of comics, and so on? As with the new Batman movie, I suppose The Man will be planning on using the internet fairly heavily as a part of His marketing strategy, so I imagine the last thing He'll want is the likes of Harry Knowles, or you, or me, (well all right, possibly He doesn't mind about that)posting page after page on the subject of what a disaster the thing's turned out to be. Just because it would be bad for business, you know?
So, newly self-appointed as a tastemaking type, I think the following;
Jude Law's too boyish for the role, and probably always will be - he'd be better as Kovacs.
That Keanu Reeves is problematic as Dr Manhattan, but it's an almost impossible role to cast - whoever's playing the part would have to be to be in A1 shape physically (although I suspect there's no way we're actually going to see his part, as it were - I keel myself) and look blandly ideal as a face/body-type as he floats about the place, and, and deliver the lines with a certain amount of gravitas. I'm guessing they're focusing on the look, and hoping that Reeves can be coached on the rest. Stranger things have happened, and, given that Dr Manhattan has to be played by someone vaguely A-list, who doesn't look too odd (Geoffrey Rush, for example, would be all wrong in this context, and Brad Pitt's too goofy) I don't know who else The Man might usefully pick.
That while John Cusack might well be an ideal as Nite Owl, I can see why he wouldn't necessarily take that as a compliment. What about Christian Bale? He doesn't seem to mind about doing ... things to his body, so he might be happy enough to grow himself the relevant paunch.
That Ian McShane (who had a wild time in the sixties that he doesn't like to talk about, running around with Sylvia Krystel, etc, being crazy) would be excellent as the Comedian.
The point is that the producers are listening. Not to me in particular, maybe (although I find that hard to believe) but to the internet in general!
And, as Bruce Willis once said, nobody ever sets out to make a bad movie. |
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