All-Purpose Watchmen

[Superbeast]

Ok now I really want to watch the trailer with the Benny Hill theme tune!

Nitpicking maybe. 20 years is a long time to have a visual depiction of a story and then be told - ok here's a film that takes all of that, but does it differently. My policy is wait and see, but I don't have much hope in me. The actor playing Ozymandias apparently was approved to play the character with a slight German accent - the rationale being Ozy became the hero he is out of guilt over his parents' Nazi pasts. New one on me. For an overweight, middle aged man Nite-Owl looked pretty spry taking on those prisoners from the riot scene. I get that the director needs more action scenes in the adaptation - after all Watchmen features lots of talking, these are characters reflecting on their action filled pasts before the act was passed. Yet how much is too much?

Wait and see. Grant Morrison's latest tirade against Moore's stance on his films is the funniest thing I've read yet, portraying him as some kind of incalcitrant 'Bad Dad'. Oh Grant, when will you resolve those oedipal comic book feelings of yours.

Oh hell, here you are for your reading pleasure:

"In the face of how incredible this stuff looks, (I saw the jaw-dropping trailer sequence as well as various other scenes) it seems a real shame that Alan Moore has artfully painted himself into the fundamentalist corner from which he now shakes a Goth-be-ringed fist at the world; stubborn, intractable, railing against his own personal Phantom Menace, across his own counter-culturally-approved lines in the sand.

In any other world, he’d have every right to be astonished and delighted by what these young filmmakers have done with his and Dave Gibbons’ work. His enquiring mind would surely be intrigued, if nothing else, by the strange, luminous soil in which his thought-cuttings have been recultivated as breathing, moving things.

In fact, the crystalline, kaleidoscopic, hi-def hyper-reality he imagined is right here, onscreen. The eye-blistering, infinite depth-of-field detailing that CGI allows in every shot might almost have been created with WATCHMEN’s miniature, contained, and semantically-dense world in mind. Moore has a lot to be grateful for and a nice big smiley face might be appropriate."

I agree Nite Owl seems pretty athletic given he's meant to be retired and out of shape but I'm going to allow some artistic license there, maybe for him it's just like getting back in the saddle to rescue his friend and once he gets going it's like it was before. Even Rorschach in the comic makes a comment about that regarding him and Nite Owl.

The actor for Ozymandias has said he likes to develop backstories when he isn't provided one based on a suggestion Paul Newman made. Veidt is an Eastern European name and many wealthy Germans emigrated to America during or after the Second World War so it's not a huge stretch of the imagination that the Veidt family may have profited from the War or escaped the country before the economy fell to pieces. The actor put forward the idea to Snyder and he said he could run with it.

Besides, in a way it adds another layer to the story if Veidt was part of The Hitler Youth who used his upbringing, Captain Metropolis' chart of progress and his father's fortune to prevent the possibility of any further wars that would threaten his new home in the same way World War 2 forced him and his family out of their previous one. Also it's acknowledged that scientists and propaganda specialists from the Nazis were brought to America to work for the government and CIA, maybe Ozymandias used his connections to find out who they were, how he could use them to further his own empire after he retired from superheroism and how they could be used for his ultimate plan.

[jesse_custer]

1962, actually.

My mistake.

But it doesn't change my opinion that including songs after the setting of the film would have been a mistake.

[nervmeister]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen

enjoy

[Donald M.]

I'm tempted to be snarky, but I'll just point out pretty much everyone's seen the trailer and that there's already a pretty active Watchmen thread in which it has been discussed.

[kalorama]

Hey, what's that song? Is that the Smashing Pumpkins? Didn't they use that in Batman and Robin?

[GRANT!]

Here's a trailer for the new Batman movie. Enjoy!

[GrifterWC]

They showed the "Watchmen" trailer when I went to see the Dark Knight.

[hYPE]

I agree Nite Owl seems pretty athletic given he's meant to be retired and out of shape but I'm going to allow some artistic license there, maybe for him it's just like getting back in the saddle to rescue his friend and once he gets going it's like it was before. Even Rorschach in the comic makes a comment about that regarding him and Nite Owl.

The actor for Ozymandias has said he likes to develop backstories when he isn't provided one based on a suggestion Paul Newman made. Veidt is an Eastern European name and many wealthy Germans emigrated to America during or after the Second World War so it's not a huge stretch of the imagination that the Veidt family may have profited from the War or escaped the country before the economy fell to pieces. The actor put forward the idea to Snyder and he said he could run with it.

Besides, in a way it adds another layer to the story if Veidt was part of The Hitler Youth who used his upbringing, Captain Metropolis' chart of progress and his father's fortune to prevent the possibility of any further wars that would threaten his new home in the same way World War 2 forced him and his family out of their previous one. Also it's acknowledged that scientists and propaganda specialists from the Nazis were brought to America to work for the government and CIA, maybe Ozymandias used his connections to find out who they were, how he could use them to further his own empire after he retired from superheroism and how they could be used for his ultimate plan.

I actually enjoy that Nite Owl isn't overweight and what not. He seemed kinda of funny lookin in the graphic novel! I can see him being out of shape but not to fat.

[hYPE]

Check out the attachments below. Some nice pictures from comic-con! Also, I will be in this Thread just about everyday, keeping
you all informed on the latest Watchmen info!

[Superbeast]

Archie looks awesome. I smiled when I noticed the fire extinguisher inside the ship and the red button on the console.

[CBR News]

Warner Bros. held its Watchmen panel Friday morning at Comic-Con International, and CBR was there LIVE. Find out about the latest trailers and information on the highly anticipated film.

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17402

[Mr.EZ]

I wonder if Snyder is getting the rights to the music featured in the comic. It'd be nice to hear "All Along the Watchtower" play as Nite Owl & Rorsharch approach Veidt's compound.

[Paradox]

Mr.EZ mentions an addictive situation:

I wonder if Snyder is getting the rights to the music featured in the comic. It'd be nice to hear "All Along the Watchtower" play as Nite Owl & Rorsharch approach Veidt's compound.

Might as well. I "see" that scene whenever I hear the song now anyway.

[hugh45]

I think the trailer is hot! Even not listening to words of the music,but the tone
of it, gives you a feeling of a dark movie. IMHO it pulls it off.

[Jared]

I think it could be really cool if all the period songs in the movie were actually alternate versions of regular songs. I don't mean a techno-remix of All Along the Watchtower, but something perhaps like what Battlestar Galactica did. Or just a remix that sounds like it could have originally been recorded that way. I just really hope they plan with the concept of this being a world that with a different history from ours.