Who watches the Watchmen?

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:23 am

I thought there was a thread here already. But I can't find it.

Behold! First images!

Rorschach and Comedian look fucking perfect! I don't care about the Newsarama boys bitching, this is going to so rock!

Post by **vynsane** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:28 am

can someone tell me WHAT kind of a world we live in... where a MAN dressed up as an OWL looks better than the newest version of batman's suit?

Rollo Tomassi · Post by **Rollo Tomassi** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:21 pm

Holy shit those look amazing!

I like how people are bitching about how the costumes look. The Comedian was literally lifted off the page and some douchebag is all 'what's with the mask? the mask is wrong...' Fucking tools.

No Dr. Manhattan?

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:36 pm

vynsane wrote:can someone tell me WHAT kind of a world we live in... where a MAN dressed up as an OWL looks better than the newest version of batman's suit?

Hooter world?

Yeah, I hate me too for making that joke.

Ro11o Tomassi · Post by **Ro11o Tomassi** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:23 pm

I always thought Watchmen was overrated. There wasn't enough action in it. Stupid. And DC put it out, so Superman should've been in it. Especially if superheroes were supposed to be illegal. Shouldn't that affect Superman? Alan Grant is an idiot.

Double_G · Post by **Double_G** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:43 pm

As I said elsewhere, I think they all look fan-fucking-tastic (Ozymandias least of all). And goddamn, does Silk Spectre look boner-tastic. She had better get buck nekkid in the movie just like in the comic.

Rollo Tomassi · Post by **Rollo Tomassi** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:23 pm

Behold.

What's more noticeable? My goosebumps or my raging hardon?

Double_G · Post by **Double_G** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:30 pm

With this trailer attached to "The Dark Knight", I can't imagine how movie screens will be able to handle this much hardcore awesomeness. I expect a lot of screens will burst into flames this weekend because of it.

And how fuckin' hot does Silk Spectre look?

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:04 pm

God almighty, I just jizzed my pants, changed them, and jizzed in the new pair.

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:42 pm

As one who's never read Watchmen (something I plan of rectifying very soon), I'm not sure what to think. Yeah it looks pretty cool, but that Billy Corgan shit almost ruins the trailer. Definitely not your average superhero film.

Post by **vynsane** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:42 am

wow. dude, awesome.

and i thought the music actually really went well with the mood of the trailer... can't wait to see it on the screen with TDK.

Rollo Tomassi · Post by **Rollo Tomassi** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:10 pm

I liked the music as well.

Comic/Film comparison

Although he would never admit it, I like to think Alan Moore is sitting somewhere watching the trailer in HD thinking 'damn...that ain't a half bad translation...'

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:52 pm

Who watches the Watchmen?
Not Alan Moore.

Watchmen creator Alan Moore is notorious for not being involved in the big screen adaptations of his comic book properties. Director Zack Snyder told fans at Comic Con last year that the best he can hope for is that Alan Moore will someday watch the DVD and say, “You know, they didn’t fuck it up that bad.”
“We all want to please Alan, and I think that’s a noble thing to want to do. There’s nothing wrong to get the guy who frickin’ created the thing to not hate it, I don’t think that’s an outrageous thing to want,” said Snyder. “I think the approach is to assume that the movie is better, and that’s a mistake. I would never make any assumptions.”
And now that the Watchmen teaser trailer has been unleashed, has Moore changed his mind? Nope. Moore tells Entertainment Weekly that he still has no interest in the movie.
“I would rather not know [about the movie],” said Moore. “[Zack Snyder] may very well be [a very nice guy], but the thing is that he’s also the person who made 300. I’ve not seen any recent comic book films, but I didn’t particularly like the book 300. I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: that it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid. I know that that’s not what people going in to see a film like 300 are thinking about but… I wasn’t impressed with that… I talked to Terry Gilliam in the ’80s, and he asked me how I would make Watchmen into a film. I said, ”Well actually, Terry, if anybody asked me, I would have said, ‘I wouldn’t.”’ And I think that Terry [who aborted his attempted adaptation of the book] eventually came to agree with me. There are things that we did with Watchmen that could only work in a comic, and were indeed designed to show off things that other media can’t.”
Moore says that “nothing good can come of almost any adaptation” and that “there’s nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood” of “the American comics industry again”.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:34 am

He's just jealous that the movie of V For Vendetta was actually better than the original series since it had a tighter story.

And he's busy helping Art Spiegelman fight evil!

Sleazer · Post by **Sleazer** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:43 pm

I'm with Alan Moore, this looks goofy.

And gay.

like The Spirit.

the vynsane asylum

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