i know i keep going on about this!

[WezV]

but its nice to have a trailer

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

[noodleplugerine]

HOLY shiteeee.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

Oooooooh it looks amazing.

The Doc looks perfect. As does rorschach and Comedian.

It all looks sooo damn perfect - I really hope they don't $%&# it up.

I'm also really happy they kept it in the 80s, there were lots of rumours about putting it in the present day - But it just wouldn't work...

[horsehead]

I take it you've seen this new artwork for the original Silk Spectre?

[badgermark]

Good choice of the Smashing Pumpkins for the soundtrack, don't recognize the song though. I'm interested in this, even though I've never really heard much about the comic (I've heard of it though).

In other news- trailer is out for the new terminator film starring Christian Bale, I had low expectations, but it kinda looks badass. trailer

[WezV]

yeah i saw that, gotta love the vargas styling!! -

not sure how i feel about the new terminator films yet, i quite liked the series even with its flaws... terminator 3 has made me nervous and i am glad they ignored it when making the series

[nfe]

It all looks sooo damn perfect

Except for the blatant superpowers  :x :(

[headtheball]

I'm not as cynical about it as I was.

Rumour has it that there'll be a "Tales of The Black Freighter" DVD available at the same time...

[noodleplugerine]

I'm not as cynical about it as I was.

Rumour has it that there'll be a "Tales of The Black Freighter" DVD available at the same time...

Yeah, that's what I read aswell.

It's a shame Zack couldn't include it in the movie, apparently it would've been too long.

[headtheball]

True. It's kinda pointless because "Black Freighter" mirrors the events of the main narrative, and separated from them, it's probably pretty pointless. Maybe some kind of Ultra-DVD edition in the future...

[mecca777]

I disagree, I'm afraid; to me this looks like one more reason why Alan Moore would be justified in shooting Hollywood agents on sight. Offensively-obvious CGI, apparently superhuman levels of strength and agility from the main characters... I've been let down by Moore adaptations so many times now that I'm no longer capable of righteous indignation, but I can still just about summon up sadness.

I'd be more likely to go see "Hellboy II"; even if it's a total stinker, it won't cause the same seismic wedgies to my fondest comic memories that "Watchmen" is likely to produce, although the first film was so dull the only memory I have of it is walking out afterwards. Why does everything need to be turned into a movie? What's so wrong about accepting that some stories can't be condensed into two or three hours and directed by someone who cut their teeth making MTV videos for dire industrial bands. Would that be so bad?

PS: "The Dark Knight" was pretty great though.

[WezV]

i think you have to get over the fact that a movie will always be different, they always change something and it always pisses somebody off.  i like the graphic novel and i am looking forward to seeing it in film, and desperately hoping it works.  for me, even if the film ends up really bad, the source material will still be what it always has been... but i am glad they are trying to make a film of it even if it does fail, somebody has to get it right one day :)

i think they did a really good job on V for Vendetta, even with a lot of changes the story still has most of its original message and is a damn fine film to watch... lets just not mention LXG :?

now whilst we are on the subject of bad movie adpatations i finally got around to reading the book of I am legend last night.   What a great book!!! 

I must admit i liked the film despite its dodgy monsters and will smithisms, it was an alright watch.... but now i know the source material....... WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!!!!!! :gib:   The film doesnt even deserve to be called an adaptation of that book... its a completely different story

[nfe]

i think you have to get over the fact that a movie will always be different, they always change something and it always pisses somebody off.  i like the graphic novel and i am looking forward to seeing it in film, and desperately hoping it works.  for me, even if the film ends up really bad, the source material will still be what it always has been... but i am glad they are trying to make a film of it even if it does fail, somebody has to get it right one day :)

If it's changes that don't make much of a difference to the story then fair enough. I can live without Glorfindel and Tom Bombadil in LOTR if I switch my "I am a massive JRR geek" brain off, but the no superpowers thing in Watchman is absolutely vital ad they have folks punching chunks out of brick walls? Booooooooooooooo.

[WezV]

its because thats what sells... superpowers and all the toys that go with them

after thinking about i am legend all day i can see why they didnt go for the more traditional vampires of the book... i just wish they had more imagination than what they came up with!!

the addition of superpowers in WM lacks imagination too but it may be a factor which makes this appeal more to the mainstream so i can see why they have done it.... its just the same as tom bombadil... you have to put it aside and go watch the film anyway... it might turn out alright!!

[MrBump]

I think that some graphic novel adaptations work.

I quite liked the adaptation of J. O'Barrs The Crow (obviously, not the subsequent films...)

[badgermark]

It might turn out like the Dark Knight though. The trailers for TDK showed a lot of action, lots of explosions and fights. But the actual movie had the three story acts winding around each other, with a superb cast and script, it was AWESOME.

Same might be true here, baring in mind i haven't read the original graphic novel, the action is to lure in the 'normal' cinemagoers, only to make them sit through a deep story with kickass characterisation.