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Is up, out there and actually looking pretty sweet !

Dr. M. looking cool there especialy !

Oh, those with a sensitive disposition might wish to avoid some of the comments section, some "bad" language there !

can't wait! Out of every comic I ever got back in the day, that one still tops my list

About as awesome as I could possible imagine.

Who'd have thought they could possibly made 2nd Nite Owl's outfit look halfway threatening.

Love the Rorschach quote.
"The world will look up and shout, 'save us', and I'll whisper.... 'no'".

Also 200ft tall Dr Manhattan zapping a VC trooper to his constituent atoms FTW!!!

Oh god it looks good....

And I was hoping to keep my expectations low.

Sigh....It'll be a long wait until next March.

Whats Watchmen? I've only seen an ad for it in my friend's Previews catalog.

Watchmen is one of the best graphic novels ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_%28comic%29

so... which one of the watchmen babies is your fave?

Rorschach, we share a birthday.

Likely to run 145 minutes.

I certainly hope so. There are so many 'easter eggs' they are going to have to sarry over for fans it would be a real shame to see it cut back, only to have an 'extended version' on the DVD.

I hear the DVD will most definitely include the Pirate story in animated format narrated by Gerard Butler.

(a Must Buy DVD)

It looks Sh! And I say that as a Watchmen fan.

I may just have to stop denying and find me a cheap copy of Watchmen to read now

- Salvage

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:About as awesome as I could possible imagine.

Who'd have thought they could possibly made 2nd Nite Owl's outfit look halfway threatening.

Love the Rorschach quote.
"The world will look up and shout, 'save us', and I'll whisper.... 'no'".

Also 200ft tall Dr Manhattan zapping a VC trooper to his constituent atoms FTW!!!

Oh. I thought something seemed odd about the perspective in that scene .

Not knowing anything about the comic, I like what I see of Rorschach. I'm going to have to find the comic too before the movie hits. I suspect it will replace Transformers as the new movie to hate... Alan Moore's already gotten a head start on that, I hear.

Well, if Alan Moore had his way nothing he ever did would be made into a movie. It could be spot on and have millions of new people love it and lead them to the book and he'd still hate it.

I liked the trailer - it looks great. If only they were previewing it at the Con this weekend...

They are previewing it tomorrow at Comiccon. Zack Snyder will be there for the previewing. I talked to him about it at the gym this morning.

The beginning is the end is the beginning ...



- Salvage

I'm semi-psyched about this. On the one hand, I think the Graphic Novel is a masterpiece, and still the best thing Moore has ever done. On the other hand, I think it's pretty much unfilmable.

I hope they don't chnage the ending as that would suck, but it is hollywood.

Oh and the costumes for Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Ozymandias & The Comedian all look like crap.

Like Doc Manhattan though. I just hope Roschach isn't too toned down for the movie, and that he gets a different looking mask in as many scenes as possible.

The thing about the costumes is that whereas the comic reflected comic book costumes, the film version is going to reflect the current trend of film costumes. The comics refer back to comics, and the film refers back to film portrayals of comic characters.

Watch the trailer again, his mask changes.

I think they will keep the basic plot the same. I don't think this an attempt to recreate the comic in every detail, as that would be both foolish and to cumbersome. I hope it keeps the plot and characters honest as well as capturing the essence of the book. Like LA Confidential the movie did for the book.

I think most of it will be a pretty close match...

A pic from the set comparing to frame from the comic.

And lego watchmen FTW!

I laughed out loud when I saw some turkey with the funny hat. This isn't a comedy spoof is it?

I have to admit, I was dubious about a film version of this comic, but the trailer seemed to be going in the right direction. We'll have to see.

nathonicus wrote:I have to admit, I was dubious about a film version of this comic, but the trailer seemed to be going in the right direction. We'll have to see.

Being the cynical bastard I am, I have to disagree.

It's great the director and set designers own a copy of the book, but changing medium (comic to film) necessitates changing the story to fit the new medium. Basically, even if the movie was an exact duplicate (as much as it could be) of the book, it wouldn't work as well. Films are different than comic books. Alan Moore has said this several times. His stories were written to be comic books. To be turned into successful films (art-wise, not $$$ successful) his stories must necessarily be changed- hence his removal of his name from films based on his work (he also gives his film $$$ to the artist).

So even if the Watchmen is totally faithful to the comic it will suffer. In order to be as good as the comic it must necessarily change- but can The Watchmen be improved? It can, of course, but by Zack Snyder? I really doubt it. Granted, 300 looked cool, but it was a stupid action movie. And I really don't want the Watchmen to be a stupid action movie. The trailer, however, seems to show that's the direction the film is taking.

Now to be as fair as I possibly can, I was impressed there wasn't an effort to cover up Doc Manhattan's junk, which would be a typical Hollywood reaction to male nudity. However, characters like Nite Owl 2, who are written as older, impotent, and even fat, were cast young and attractive. The same is true of the rest of the cast- essentially throwing off a major plot and symbolic point for simple Hollywood conventions (young = $$$).

It may be good. And I'll watch it opening weekend. But I'm keeping my expectations low and hope to have them greatly exceeded.

I don't know, there have been some good books brought to film. Not sure why comics get some sacred cow status.

I don't expect it to be the same as the book, but I don't want it to be. If I want something exactly like the book, I'll read the book. I'm interested in seeing how it is interpreted onto film. I don't assume it is going to be great, but I also don't assume the opposite either.

Read the comic. Just do it. It's brilliant. I have high hopes for this movie, but it will not ever be able to match the "peeling the onion" story unfolding of the comic.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:I'm semi-psyched about this. On the one hand, I think the Graphic Novel is a masterpiece, and still the best thing Moore has ever done. On the other hand, I think it's pretty much unfilmable.

I hope they don't chnage the ending as that would suck, but it is hollywood.

Oh and the costumes for Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Ozymandias & The Comedian all look like crap.

Like Doc Manhattan though. I just hope Roschach isn't too toned down for the movie, and that he gets a different looking mask in as many scenes as possible.

From what I have heard they are using the original ending.

The costumes needed to change for the movie. I doubt people would have taken Nite Owl seriously enough for the story if he was a fat guy in spandex and Silk Spectre's costume always sucked.

Crimson Devil wrote:The costumes needed to change for the movie. I doubt people would have taken Nite Owl seriously enough for the story if he was a fat guy in spandex and Silk Spectre's costume always sucked.

That was charm of Nie Owl, he was overweight, he was lonely he did have "ahem" problems. But they were normal problems, ones that anyone and everyone could suffer from.

And will people take him seriously now that he looks like a Batman-wannabie and yes I'm awear that he was based on Batman. He just looks to much like Batman now.

Not Batman as much as the Blue Beetle. Watchmen was originally a way to use the rights to Charlton Comics which DC had acquired.

Ahtman wrote:Well, if Alan Moore had his way nothing he ever did would be made into a movie. It could be spot on and have millions of new people love it and lead them to the book and he'd still hate it.

I get he had some problems with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and... the Captain Britain character, was it?... but the way he treats film adaptations of his work like flag burning turns me off of him. He sounds full of himself and exacerbates a lot of the nerdrage a geek-film inevitably gets.

I got interested in Hellboy because of the films and Mike Mignola's has a great attitude about the whole thing. Even when the films differ he just says "Well they should be different" .