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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:46 pm
by GORDON
Random peeps who decided to put on costumes and fight crime.
Also because of them the USA won in Vietnam.
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:42 pm
by Leisher
It's not a superhero team like that picture might make one believe.
Wiki
Consider them to be the superheros from DC comics, but terribly flawed. (Which actually makes them more like Marvel characters.) In their world, the cold war is alive and well, but someone is trying to end it. Also, all these heroes are retired so don't expect the movie to be like Superman, X-Men, or Batman.
Written by Alan Moore, it was 12 issues, but is collected as a single LARGE trade that was on a recently posted here list about the best 100 novels of the last 100 years or something like that. Watchmen was in the top 10 if I remember correctly.
It's a pretty good read and a very interesting take on where certain political beliefs could take us. Written about the cold war, the political themes still fit perfectly today.
Highly recommend it (there's a review in this forum somewhere) and I'm not a tremendous fan of Alan Moore's work.
It's going to be really interesting to see how they make this into a film, particularly because it was written intentionally so that it could never be adapted into a film. Seriously.
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:41 pm
by Leisher
Good article about Watchmen.
If you thought the idea of a film was difficult to imagine...what about this?
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:50 pm
by Malcolm
I think games are always easier than flicks. Games tend to be much more immersive.
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:53 am
by GORDON
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:05 am
by Leisher
Nah, I don't buy it. I think 20th Century Fox is just posturing for an easy cash settlement.
They'd be stupid to think that they could block this film and then release their own. Obviously, they've had over 20 years to do so and haven't, so that says something right there. On top of that, to take away a film fans are geeked about by a director they trust and make a new one that will most likely pale in comparison would result in massive negative backlash.
I bet we'll see Watchmen in theaters on schedule.
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:14 pm
by GORDON
Fox requests a trial in June.
Movie is supposed to be released in March.
Extortion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008....=slogin
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:38 pm
by TheCatt
I saw the preview in the Imax. I had no idea what it was about.
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:42 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:51 am
by GORDON
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:11 pm
by GORDON
Alan Moore reads some of Rorschachs's journal.
Pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g2PReWHYv4
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:19 pm
by GORDON
New footage.
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:33 am
by Leisher
First Spoiler.
The article itself contains major, major spoilers if you've never read the book.
If you have read the book, then it's just a spoiler for the film and something Zack Snyder removed from the story.
Any further discussion would have to be considered spoilers.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:59 am
by Vince
Yeah... read that.
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:57 pm
by GORDON
New trailer. They gave Dr. Manhattan a banana hammock.
http://www.mania.com/watchme....80.html
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:48 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:First Spoiler.
The article itself contains major, major spoilers if you've never read the book.
If you have read the book, then it's just a spoiler for the film and something Zack Snyder removed from the story.
Any further discussion would have to be considered spoilers.
Goddamnit, I kind of liked that ending.
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:14 pm
by Leisher
Well, I assume the ending will still stand. The thing he changed was not the ending.
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:54 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:Well, I assume the ending will still stand. The thing he changed was not the ending.
Fine, fine. I liked how the book got to the ending as opposed to what the film's apparently gonna do.
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:00 pm
by Vince
GORDON wrote:New trailer. They gave Dr. Manhattan a banana hammock.
That's accurate, depending on when in the time line it occurs, and I believe the scene there was from the newly formed "Minute Men" or whatever they called themselves. Manhatten started with a full costume and it just got whittled away over time until there was none.
<points> "Naked."
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:09 pm
by Leisher
One would assume that he is wearing the banana hammock to make others feel more comfortable around him. It fits his character.