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Watchmen!!!!
- Thread starter Barkless Dog
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It looks awesome, but I'm still not sold completely on the casting...the people just seem too young. Granted, Ozymandias and Rorschach look very well done. Time will tell, I'm hoping for the best.
First thing I noticed was they got a young babe to play the woman who, if I remembered in the book as being about 40 something and haggard?
I also wonder, after knowing the ending of the series, how the movie will play out. I can't see it not disappointing in that respect.
Dr Manhattan looks really good.
Marvel movies really screwed up the Green Goblin and Dr Doom (upsetting with Doom)
I also wonder, after knowing the ending of the series, how the movie will play out. I can't see it not disappointing in that respect.
Dr Manhattan looks really good.
Marvel movies really screwed up the Green Goblin and Dr Doom (upsetting with Doom)
I'll see it because my comic book nerd past will just be incessantly nipping at my heels, but this is another movie that I'm almost fairly certain Alan Moore will disown. I think it looks very tacky.
And I really, really, really wanted to like what I saw in the trailer, too.
And I really, really, really wanted to like what I saw in the trailer, too.
Iron Man had the worst trailer ever. I thought "Not another FF!~"
Turned out to be a great movie. Expect the worst, hope for the best.
Turned out to be a great movie. Expect the worst, hope for the best.
The mantra of any true comic book fan who dares to anticipate a big screen adaptation... heh.
You're thinking about the Silk Spectre, who gave her daughter her identity, then retired... Yep I'm a nerd.
The same guy who did 300 (which is a Frank Miller comic!) is doing this one, so maybe it wont suck...
No kidding. Not that I've seen Iron Man, but I really thought the trailer made it look kind of bad. However, I've heard that it was a great movie, so I'll have to check it out.
And I am very much looking forward to watching this. Coincidentally, I was going to make that day my senior skip day, so I figure now I should go hit up the movies while I'm doing my high school seniorly duties.
in the book, if you may remember, sally jupiter is portrayed being in her 20s through... her 60s or 70s. similarly with blake and hollis mason. snyder went with a fairly young cast so the characters can be appropriately re-aged as necessary.
even laurie, dan, and adrian are depicted about ten years younger than they are in the main narrative.
that said, i think adrian/ozymandias is substantially more "dark" than in the book. in the book, he came off more as the cocky golden boy, while in the pictures that are available so far, the movie gives him a much darker look, outright. ...kinda screws things up a bit, imo, if you already know the story.
i have pretty high hopes for this movie after seeing the trailer. (though i suppose i'm going to have to live with the 300 style super-slo-mo action scenes.
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I saw the trailer @ The Dark Knight (imax) - I honestly was completely lost... I'll have to do some research since I'm out of the Watchmen loop. I used to be big into comics in the very early nineties, too...
Frank Miller knows his shizznit, though.
Frank Miller knows his shizznit, though.
You have to read the graphic novel.
At the time it was ground breaking because it was about a bunch of old washed up super heroes who where used as weapons by the government and finally outlawed. They have to come back because they start getting killed one by one. It is then reflected the unsavory things in their pasts that never had been dealt with before in the way it was in comics.
It was the beginning of adult content comics, which as it progressed alienated younger kids & their parents. It really was the beginning of the end for actual "kids" reading comics.
I think Dr. Manhattan looks spot on.. I am interested to see how far they go with the original storyline.
from what i've seen on the innernetz, it seems like just about everything but "the black freighter" made it. ...though i read that snyder fiddled with some of the details of the ending, though the tone is the same.
comic con is underway, so i think there'll be more news if you look for it in a few days.
it's a tall order, but it looks righteously dark. I really hope it does the book justice (hooded or not 
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I have to disagree with the second part of your post, I think we can push the beginning back to the early 70's. I'm speaking of the work of Jeffery Jones, Berni Wrightson, Rich Corben, Ron Cobb, Mike Kaluta and others. They all did solo "fan" books, and Wrightson illustrated Stephen King stories . They were all pushing the limits of mainstream comics. All the while thumbing their noses at Dr Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocents" BTW? that's pretty DC centricic, the same went on at Marvel. Not to exclude the magazine Heavy Metal,which spawned . In speaking of the "Watchmen" movie? It would appear that the production team on that movie is attempting to draw Alan Moore out of hiding. Even thought the "based on" credit is in The artist's name only? the bits and snaps of what we're being shown are incredibly accurate to the novel. Yes you've struck my Nerdvein... All that said? i'm tweaked about the new movie! who's bringing the popcorn!?
One of my favorite novels I've ever read... loved the first trailer, saw the new one the other day. Now I'm even more pumped!
