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urge311
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couldn't find a thread on this.... thought there was one though.

Anyways, just saw some pics on Yahoo. All I can say is complete awesomeness

http://movies.yahoo.com/slideshows/generic/watchmen.html

3/10/2008 10:30:49 PM

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holy shit, how'd i miss this.

i loved the watchmen, always thought it'd be a cool movie. hope they don't screw it up.

3/11/2008 12:15:23 AM

mrlebowski
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Just read this again for like the twentieth time. Gets better every read. Hope the movie stacks up. Alan Moore has nothing to do with it, not like that's a surprise

3/11/2008 8:47:54 AM

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I wasn't too familiar with this so I looked it up on wikipedia and it seems pretty cool. That Nite Owl dude on the slide show looks A LOT like Batman though.

3/11/2008 9:08:36 AM

mrlebowski
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the characters are loosely based on other characters. That's not something you should focus on when reading this book

3/11/2008 10:04:10 AM

marko
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^^

they're based on old Charlton Comics characters like Captain Atom and Blue Beetle that DC acquired

but alan moore being alan moore changed them all up

3/11/2008 11:44:16 AM

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Is it true Alan Moore wanted nothing to do with this?

3/11/2008 12:16:33 PM

marko
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i think alan moore rejects the idea of anything he makes being turned into a film

3/11/2008 3:00:55 PM

Mr Scrumples
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen I heard he liked.

3/11/2008 5:20:56 PM

jaZon
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rofl

3/11/2008 8:16:21 PM

V0LC0M
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some of those costumes looked kinda gay like reliving Batman and Robin gay...

3/13/2008 10:09:05 AM

arog20012001
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I actually like the costumes...they have that retro-ish look that this story demands.

I'm a little worried about Dr. Manhattan though. Apparently he is going to be entirely CGI with Billy Crudup doing the motion capture. Hmmmm...I worry that it will turn out shitty and be like the Hulk movie.

What they need to do is somehow combine the animation from 'Beowulf' with some crazy, super-advanced CGI.

3/13/2008 4:16:14 PM

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

7/18/2008 12:19:57 PM

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I cant think of a trailer that had a better song attached to set mood. I didnt have that SP song, but I now own it.

7/18/2008 1:53:03 PM

Arab13
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dr M will probably be done how gollum was done, guy in a green suit with motion capture balls

at least i hope that's how it's done... even better will be his reappearance, one organ system at a time

7/18/2008 2:20:12 PM

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7/18/2008 3:24:49 PM

sylvershadow
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I need to read the graphic novel now... This thing gave me the chills watching the previews...

7/19/2008 10:28:00 AM

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I purposely waited until I went to TDK to see the trailer for this, and then lol'd that the song is from the Batman & Robin soundtrack.

7/19/2008 10:39:48 AM

DoeoJ
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last time i read the watchmen was like 6 years ago. time to re-read.

7/19/2008 11:32:07 AM

simonn
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the mood just struck me. i need to go buy this.

7/19/2008 1:28:05 PM

moron
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The movie looked good from the trailer, but I was sitting next to this guy with a retarded stereotypical "huck huck huck" kind of dorky laugh when I saw it, and it's tainted my perception.

7/19/2008 3:21:49 PM

Arab13
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should be full of awesome

the thing won a Hugo Award, only 'comic' ever to win one, ever.

7/21/2008 9:08:38 AM

arog20012001
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loved the "comic," but it is going to be hard to capture the tone of the book in the movie.

should be interesting.

7/21/2008 9:10:14 AM

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I am...afraid. I saw the previews, it looks visually perfect and stunning. But what about the plot?
How can you handle the rape scene? It's a rather character-central plot point, but perhaps they won't actually show it on screen?
The twist will still be the same, and it will undoubtedly have an even worse effect seeing the destruction live. I'm almost tempted to withold the graphic novel from my mother and make her experience it live first...

7/21/2008 9:52:43 AM

mdalston
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the shot of Comedian on the owlship, looking down at angry crowds at the time the Keane Act was passed gave me goosebumps

the song choice and serious tone of the trailer, I think, should imspire optimism that the TONE is maybe the focus of our filmmakers.

Like, maybe Snyder isn't just "making sure he gets every cool shot."

I'm VERY optimistic, now.

7/21/2008 10:15:25 AM

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oh yeah

7/21/2008 10:21:07 AM

simonn
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"How can you handle the rape scene?"

i mean... they've shown rape in film before and they've shown flashbacks in film before. i don't see any reason they wouldn't be able to do this.

7/21/2008 10:40:59 AM

mdalston
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^ yeah. You film it.

The movie's gonna be Rated R.

7/21/2008 10:50:44 AM

marko
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think they'll include "the black freighter" or will it kind of be worked around?

7/21/2008 10:59:46 AM

mrlebowski
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did they have to "sex up" laurie?

7/21/2008 11:02:30 AM

simonn
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^^ per wikipedia, they had to cut it, but they're releasing an animated rendition of it on dvd.

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:05 AM. Reason : ^ also per wikipedia (and trailer), they "modernized" laurie's, night owl's and ozymandias' costumes]

7/21/2008 11:03:11 AM

mdalston
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^^^ They're making an Animatrix-style release with the Black Freighter

http://www.superherohype.com/news/watchmennews.php?id=7256

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM. Reason : yep]

7/21/2008 11:04:06 AM

mdalston
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(Snyder wanted it in, says in a perfect world they'd let him make a 5-hour movie. But, this is what we get)

7/21/2008 11:05:02 AM

mrlebowski
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not to mention they all look really young, aside from maybe the comedian

7/21/2008 11:06:52 AM

BDubLS1
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so are these people supposed to be bad guys and destroy the planet?

7/21/2008 1:38:22 PM

spydyrwyr
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

7/21/2008 1:41:59 PM

aph319
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rorschach is the biggest bad ass of them all

i want a rorschach costume for halloween. i'd also carry a can of beans because i thought that image in the novel was hilarious.

7/21/2008 3:23:13 PM

AlliePaige
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Well after reading that ^^ and seeing the preview before the dark knight I'm more excited about it.

I just thought it looked a bit confusing but the wikipedia synposis of it makes it seem really interesting.

7/21/2008 3:37:58 PM

arog20012001
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"The movie's gonna be Rated R."


it better be.

7/21/2008 5:16:07 PM

umbrellaman
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She looks like she's trying to squeeze out a giant shit or something.

7/21/2008 5:28:34 PM

FuhCtious
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I heard that some of the stuff in this movie may be designed to be a commentary on other superhero movies, and if that's the case, then it fits that the song was from Batman and Robin.

7/21/2008 5:58:09 PM

aimorris
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yeah like the nipples on the costumes of nite owl mimicking the batman and robin suits?

7/21/2008 6:02:24 PM

DoeoJ
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"i want a rorschach costume for halloween"


ha i was going to do that too.

7/21/2008 6:55:05 PM

FuhCtious
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^^ Yeah, exactly like that. I heard about the nipples but thought it was Ozymandius, and I didn't want to post it in case I got it wrong.

7/21/2008 6:57:23 PM

marko
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i thought this was kind of neat

http://www.watchmen-the-movie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/watchmen_comp_big.jpg

7/21/2008 7:59:31 PM

simonn
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"I just thought it looked a bit confusing"

i've heard a lot of people say this. it's a film that's not coming out for like 7 months, and the trailer has one line in it. of course you're not going to make sense of it at this point, just from the trailer.

7/21/2008 8:12:13 PM

aimorris
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^^^ you were right, I only remembered reading something about it in that wikipedia entry. I've never even read it, I just ordered it off Amazon though

Quote :
"The Ozymandias costume, with its molded muscles and nipples, parodies the costumes in Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997)."

7/21/2008 8:18:32 PM

simonn
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it's easy enough to find on megaupload if people are so inclined.

i went out and bought it, though, so i'm not going to link to it.

7/21/2008 8:19:51 PM

aimorris
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I don't really like reading books, especially comics/graphic novels off the computer anyways, $10 isn't much for supposedly the best graphic novel ever

7/21/2008 9:04:01 PM

mrlebowski
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yeah, it's a super in depth story. I've read it at least 15 times over the years and I still find new things every time I read it. Do yourself a favor and go buy the trade paperback before the movie comes out.

Anyone else here have the individual 12 books?

7/22/2008 10:18:08 AM

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