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Watchmen

Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 02:52
by judasmuppet

Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 07:56
by Thunder Bear
The comedian looks like the guy from Flaming Lips.

Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 12:08
by Dress Barn
Remember 20 years ago when Arnold Swartznieger (sp) was going to play Manhatten (sp)

Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 12:37
by The Rambam
Nite Owl and Ozymandias look kind Schumacher-ish. :???: Fail.

Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 19:54
by Don Eduardo
God, I hate the current use that word.

Anyway, the screenshots look ok. The movie really does bother me. The book was all inter textual references and subversions of the comic genre. Since it's being done by the 300 guy I'm pretty sure they'll be going down the action-superhero path, ignoring the aspects that made Watchmen so unique.

Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 21:46
by Rick Cave
Eli, I know shit about the comic book genre.
Give us some back story.

Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 00:42
by Don Eduardo
I had a few sentences typed out to try and summarise it, but I couldn't really give the thing proper justice. Give it a go on wikipedia, Rick. I'd suggest to anyone to give it a read in its intended form before the film.

Incidentally if you've disliked any of Alan Moore's work prior to this, don't let it affect your judgement. It's so different to all of his other work, and far better because of it.

Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 05:22
by judasmuppet
I didn't realise Snyder was on this, but I'm keeping an open mind.

I think the look is pretty good. There's a couple more location shots here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/mediaindex

I haven't read it in a long time myself, Rick, but from what I remember it's pretty far departed from the genre, in a way. Visually, it's might be well described as understated? :???:

Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 05:24
by judasmuppet
Oh, and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach is the casting from hell.

Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 11:26
by Dress Barn
The 300 guy did a great job making the movie true to the comic, this might work out pretty well.

My Favorite Alan Moore was Watchmen and then his work he did for Swamp Thing

Plus I read half of From Hell and was pretty impressed

Posted: 19 Mar 2008, 04:23
by judasmuppet
I finally read some of the early Swamp Thing recently. I liked it.

Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 05:14
by [Viperfish]
More set-porn here.

Still looking right...

Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 06:19
by judasmuppet
Ooh... And an RSS feed!

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Apparently it's all ready "in the can". A year of post-production to go...

I just finished re-reading it. A lot nastier than I remembered.

Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 17:31
by Dress Barn
Manhattan will be the make or break with this one

Posted: 02 May 2008, 01:28
by [Viperfish]
Oh my god SPOILERS!

Well, if you want to see what they're doing with it, Hayter's script can be found here. The shooting script they're using is apparently the same, but with more fight scenes and an ending closer to the comic.

Posted: 03 May 2008, 07:08
by judasmuppet
I'm not reading all of that.

Posted: 17 Jul 2008, 22:34
by [Viperfish]
Trailer is online:


http://watchmencomicmovie.com/index.php

Ummm... why did they use the Pumpkins song from Batman and Robin? Is that, like, irony or something? Discuss.

Posted: 17 Jul 2008, 22:42
by Dress Barn
i'm sold

Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 07:12
by The Rambam
Looks pretty shit.

Posted: 20 Jul 2008, 03:03
by judasmuppet
The Rambam";p="969403 wrote:Looks like the best thing eva.
Fixed.

Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 17:46
by Thunder Bear
[Viperfish]";p="969377 wrote:Trailer is online:


http://watchmencomicmovie.com/index.php

Ummm... why did they use the Pumpkins song from Batman and Robin? Is that, like, irony or something? Discuss.
Weird choice, but a cool song. (The original that is. Not this remix).


Movie looks cool as well. Ive not read the comics yet.

Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 21:34
by Dress Barn
you should
it's awesome

Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 22:00
by Thunder Bear
So they say. I will do it before the film comes out, just so that I can be one of those assholes claiming that the book was better.

Posted: 22 Jul 2008, 05:33
by judasmuppet
Good man.

Posted: 01 Aug 2008, 04:33
by Don Eduardo
Really nice new poster. Book is better though.

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