Director Zack Snyder introduces the story, characters and stars of Watchmen.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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When working in a medium sized office setting, you tend to share links with your co-workers, and then forget to show your other friends. This is a demonstration of what a recent study claims we spend 25% of our office time doing (while maintaining or even increasing productivity). Our managers, on the other hand, would call them "distractions".
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And I realize that a third of this movie is going to be in slow motion.
(sarcasm)Hooray for the style over substance filmmakers.(/sarcasm)
that looks fantastic
It should be out by now.
Wait, why does everyone think this is going suck again?
The guy playing Rorshach seems dead on.
Otis, see 300.
I don't care if it sucks. I'm looking forward to going and wallowing in the purtyfullness. And the Rorshach mask looks awesome. I also really like that I don't know the actors. If I'm not constantly thinking of an actor's other characters as I watch them in a sci-fi/fantasy/superhero film, it's a step ahead already.
300 shouldn't have been a movie. But I'm reading Watchmen now, and I think it's probably perfect. Also Zack Snyder is not Frank Miller. Even if he were, Sin City was great, and I'm going to see The Spirit, which will probably be pretty good. Like Dani, I'm content to wallow in the purtyfullness, which is all I expect from The Spirit. From Watchmen, I expect more, but don't mind if I don't get more.
But Zack Snyder directed 300!
Also, I think I have a different view of Watchmen than many people because the first time I read it was 15 years ago. I've been reading superhero comics for the past 20 years. I can't take Watchmen out of that context because it's about, in part, the death of superheroes. (Sorry if I spoiled the book for you.) It's sad and lonely and none of the "superheroes" in the 1985 part of the book are heroes, many of them never were.
The movie trailer and that Snyder video make them, or at least many of them, very heroic. That's a style over substance choice and it eliminates what I think is an important theme from the story.
I'm not saying the movie will suck. (I may not have liked 300, but I don't think it's a bad movie.) It's going to be visually interesting and I'll probably be able to get lost in the moment when I see it in the theater, but I think that it's going to be turned into a pretty straightforward mystery/action flick and it'll lose a lot of the dimensions that the original material has.
I think the story, theme, and moral, are going to remain the same. Look back to the first watchmen trailer, and you see the things you love about the book, and none of the things you mentioned about the second trailer.
Maybe part of your concern is that access to this story will be granted to people who wouldn't have read it, and who will think that they've seen the story, when they've only seen the movie. That's an elitist argument which I'm projecting onto you, perhaps mistakenly.
It's obvious and unfortunate that the movie will have to dispose of a lot of the depth of the book. but I have faith that anyone who wants to undertake the making of this movie is in it to tell the right story, perhaps mistakenly.
I didn't like 300, but that was hardly the director's fault. It certainly was visually interesting. I think I just don't really like Frank Miller adaptations. I was way less enthusiastic about Sin City than most people and I'm staying the hell away from The Spirit.
But I don't know. I didn't get the feel of the movie doing away with the anti-hero aspect of the book. It does, after all, give Rorshach's psychotic monologue as the backdrop.
Unfortunately, I don't think that you can really tell much at all from ANY trailer. Perhaps we can reserve judgment until we actually see the damn thing?! If not, well... that's why there are so many different movies out there. We don't all have to like the same ones for the same reasons.
/can't we all just get along? plea
Plus, if they do it really badly, probably someone will come along later and do it maybe a tiny bit better. I mean, look at the Hulk! We can hope, anyway. Don't think of it as bad, think of it as room for improvement.
We're just talking. :)
I was thinking this morning that our whole blog should go see it together. (if feasible)
I think that would be swell.
Perfect! Group date.
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