Got to admit, this is one of the few times that Carla Gugino has not looked all that attractive to me. Hopefully it is just the shot and she is still the hottie I remember.
this movie is going to kick ass
Maybe it will kick ass, maybe it will be just good enough for it not to be horrible.
Comedian looks awesome, Nite Owl looks too plastic’y, how will you see his belly under all that plastic?
Nite Owl, Jupiter, and Ozzy don’t look bad, but they look too ultimate’y. This is supposed to be set in 85. Not 2008.
I still don’t get why the guy who directed the Dawn of the Dead remake and 300 gets to try and make the unmakeable movie. This is one of the greatest books of all time and you’re giving it to Zack Synder? This isn’t like Michael Bay getting Transformers, Transformers has always been a hollow toy selling machine. Fucking Hollywood, crazy I tells ya.
The injection molded muscles are just getting tired. Look at Superman and Spiderman’s costumes, you don’t need to have plastic abs on there, it looks corny.
At least they nailed Rorschach.
Dude’s in a trench coat - that’s not exactly a huge achievement.
As long as you keep expectations for this movie realistic, then I’m sure we’ll all be fine and there will be minimum fanboy outrage. It’s absolutely impossible to translate a story like this into another medium. Watchmen was practically the absolutely best and the perfect comic book story of all time, because it took advantage of so many storytelling angles and devices that are only available in comic books. The nine panel layout, the parallels within and between each issue, combining all the different storyline threads together…those things are available in other mediums.
Like how the hell would you translate that Doctor Manhattan issue to the big screen, with all the weird time travel stuff and constant flashbacks?
Even based on the length alone of the story, there’s no way you could possibly translate it into a two to three hour movie.
Frankly, as long as it entertains me more than The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (aka LXG) did, I’ll be happy. Those are pretty ass standards, but when Hollywood decides to make movies out of every single comic book franchise there is…things are what they are.
Just as long as there’s some big blue cock in the movie. I’m with ya, VSlash.
F’reals man, that is the deal breaker. If there isn’t blue cock in the movie, I seriously won’t see it. As much as I adore Watchmen, as much as I’ve read twice a year since I bought it in high school, I will put it on my no see movie list because of this.
Spiderman 3 and Fantastic Four 2 are already on this list. I will never in my entire life watch these movies. Shame on you marvel.
I mean I don’t get how it’s an unmakeable movie. It’s easy as hell now that 3 hour trilogy movies are the accepted norm.
The fucking comic is your STORYBOARD. I mean you have a fucking SHOT BY SHOT LAYOUT that is ALREADY SCRIPTED.
It’s not impossible, it’s easy as shit. You can’t tell me a properly made Watchmen trilogy wouldn’t destroy America completely.
It’s everything America loves, crime drama, superheroes, lots of violence, sex, giant death scene, and fucking 80’s nostalgia in one amazing package.
I mean wtf hollywood, take the 12 issues and separate them into 4 issue chunks and bam.
There is your fucking oscar winning trilogy that combines all your audiences, CBS watching crime drama loving assholes, Comic Nerds, Oscar movie dick suckers, and action movie special effects whores.
1st movie ends with Dr Manhattan on Mars, IS HE COMING BACK? CLIFFHANGER.
Next movie starts with Rorschach getting captured and ends with him getting broken out. It’s your Empire, everything falls apart, horrible horrible shit happens and you realize how shitty life is.
Then you have the ending where everything falls apart even worse and comes together at the same time.
This isn’t rocket science. Just follow the fucking comic. I hate Hollywood, fuck you Zach Synder.
EDIT - My post is full of bad grammar and typos, I don’t care, I’m not fixing them. This must be how Alan Moore feels like everyday. No wonder he is crazy.
theres only enough story for one movie
That’s the kind of thinking that makes it so we get no blue dick. :mad::arazz:
V.Slashy, continue to PREACH IT, my brother. PREACH IT.
…“Only enough story for one movie.” You are outta your mind, P.Gabby.
Looks great so far, I’m very excited.
If this movie sucks, god help the director. Fan boys world wide will take up pitch forks and fire.
Btw, do they have the Smiley blood as an actual pin? I’d love to get me one.
the plot itself is only 6 issues long, then moore went back and did 6 issues of character stuff just because dc wanted to make it 12. shit isnt preacher, it’s not that complicated.
If they cut out those six issues, the book would not be half as good.
Any plot can be condensed to a couple sentences if you really wanna get it down to the nitty gritty, though. You can boil Preacher down to “Dude tries to find God but finds true love and a best friend instead.” That could’ve been done in like six panels if they really wanted to. It’s all that extra stuff, all the character arcs, new conflicts, subplots, and so on that make a story what it is.
Otherwise, what is the point?
If this movie isn’t at least 3 hours long I might not bother watching it; you can’t cover the events of Watchmen in just one movie, this isn’t the story of some guy in a trench coat trying to find out who’s killing off super heroes just to keep him and other former costumed vigilantes in disarray while he tries to change the world Hiroshima Bomb-style; it’s also about the lives of those vigilantes and how they react to a world where society is a bitch.
I’ve always seen this book as a Psychological and Society Psychology gender than a Mystery and Action one.
You’ll never please even half the fans of this book. You’ll hear plenty of “I can’t believe they cut out <insert favorite part here>”. For me, if it does a decent job of putting together the events that they do include and they capture the spirit of the original, its okay by me. For those that want the full and complete story, that’s what the TPB is for.
film can convey in seconds what comics take pages to do
good - i dont think that sentence means what you think it means
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True. I think the only way to cover every single moment from the book would be for it to be a TV mini series. Although there is the possibility that it could work as a series of movies, you don’t know if the general public will actually come out to see it.
It can. But in most cases, it shouldn’t.
It means what I want it to mean.
One of the key differences between film and comics is the transfer of information. In film, the viewer just sits and absorbs it all, the way the director wants the audience to experience it. In comics, the reader controls the pace of how he absorbs the information on the page.
Watchmen isn’t just a great story. It showed a new way of presenting comics as an experience.
Just 'cause most of mainstream America ain’t hip enough to read comics doesn’t mean they need to watch a movie adaptation. If people are too lazy to read, fuck 'em.
basically the criticisms in this thread are against adapting any piece of literature ever, and there are plenty of great films based on literary work. I love Watchmen as much as the next guy but it isn’t Shakespeare, and there have been plenty of adaptations by guys named Olivier and Welles that left out scenes, changed things around, etc and didn’t end up with crap. It’s just Watchmen. The script includes basically everything from the comics except for the back up material (obviously), the black freighter (obviously), and the story of the black psychiatrist’s home life (which when you think about it is perfectly logical).
Film brings a lot to the table. Your precious book will still be sitting on your shelf where you left it even after the movie comes out.
Just admit you hate comics and don’t want to see a 50 foot tall naked man’s wang and just leave the thread.