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Post by PLANET Nuke on Jul 24, 2008 21:51:04 GMT -5
I know I certainly will be. I hope The Watchmen is as intense as the comic was. This movie has to have more sustance than look.
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Post by b_Pooly on Jul 24, 2008 22:44:52 GMT -5
when is it coming out?
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Post by Mutant Crouch on Jul 25, 2008 2:42:06 GMT -5
The trailers look decent, but the graphic novel just didn't seem like something that should or would adapt well to screen. There's also Moore's other works that have been adapted and how they've been pretty bad. I liked From Hell, but the graphic novel wasn't nearly as epic as Watchmen. So, yeah I want to see it, but I have little hope for it being good.
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Post by canedust on Jul 25, 2008 11:11:13 GMT -5
Take all the subtext of Watchmen. Look at it carefully.
Now wave goodbye, because the fucktard behind 300 and the Dawn remake is putting his stamp of brainless mediocrity down hard.
Fucking music video directors....
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Post by PLANET Nuke on Jul 26, 2008 2:59:40 GMT -5
Perhaps it is best to keep the expectations low so i leave room to be pleasently surprised. It certainly does look better than the Max Payne movie though.
Who knows. We might get The Watchmen movie with subtle hints throughout the movie. It wont be the same as the comic as no movie adapted from a book usually has everything. I simply hope that we don't get mindless drivel with fancy words thrown in that passes off as a deep argument.
I am looking forward to the climax between Dr. Manhattan and Rorsharc and the dialogue that the two will have.
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Post by thepunisher02 on Jul 26, 2008 14:23:38 GMT -5
The Max Payne movie looks pretty dumb. Anyone see the new reband trailer to Punisher Warzone?
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Post by b_Pooly on Jul 26, 2008 14:42:55 GMT -5
I never got passed the one stage where you suddenly leave your house and need to follow a trail of blood. I always died when I moved forward. I'm sure the movie will suck as the game didn't have much substance to it. What does Max Payne have to do with anything? lol! BloodRayne should have been a decent movie, it had a great character and the best woman to play the part and the stupid duche decides to go a different route. He then goes back to the games with an actress that doesn't even look the part. I know what you are thinking...but at least my tangant involves a character in a comic book. ;D Besides, I will delete both posts anyways after you respond.  |
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Post by canedust on Jul 26, 2008 16:49:17 GMT -5
If he pulls off the ending, it'll be mindblowing.
Just no legless zombies somehow scaling ceilings and falling on people, or his usual PG13 faux-lesbian scene. Please?
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Post by phoenix48 on Aug 19, 2008 20:49:49 GMT -5
Canedust, you know for a fact that ending will NEVER happen in theaters.
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Post by canedust on Aug 20, 2008 5:24:38 GMT -5
So, Gerald Butler will rush in and kick down a well before the plan starts?
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Post by phoenix48 on Aug 20, 2008 9:18:19 GMT -5
Exactly. There is absolutely no way that will be allowed by studio execs mostly due to 9/11 and the fact that they think that ending would be "unmarketable". |
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Post by canedust on Aug 20, 2008 23:49:57 GMT -5
Without the ending, they've got nothing.
The Mist slipped through, and Frank Castle shot his son in the face.
Can't see Watchmen working without the ending.
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Post by Mutant Crouch on Aug 20, 2008 23:53:35 GMT -5
While I fully anticipate them screwing it up. There's just no way they can leave out or change the ending, the backlash would be insane. I don't really think that 9/11 will have much of a factor in it as there have been movies since that have depicted things that would be considered touchy.
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Post by canedust on Aug 22, 2008 15:29:42 GMT -5
Just don't expect it to make money in Georgia.
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Post by Venom Punk on Nov 13, 2008 19:51:22 GMT -5
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Post by b_Pooly on Nov 16, 2008 16:04:46 GMT -5
thanks
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Post by joshminor7 on Dec 9, 2008 13:36:54 GMT -5
I will be 100%
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Post by b_Pooly on Feb 27, 2009 21:17:01 GMT -5
Info on it.
Theatrical Release: view all releases
Friday, March 6, 2009
TBA July, 2009 (NY/LA)
Starring: view full cast
* Malin Akerman
* Billy Crudup
* Matthew Goode
* Jackie Earle Haley
* Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Directed by:
* Zach Snyder
Genres:
Drama Fantasy Superhero Adaptation Sci-Fi
Keywords:
hero based on comic book crime fighter superheroes washed-up masked vigilante
Distributor:
Warner Bros. Pictures Paramount Pictures
Box Office Total:
MPAA Rating:
R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language.
SYNOPSIS
After a law is past to thwart the efforts of group of crimefighters, one of them is mysteriously murdered.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion—a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers—Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
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Post by b_Pooly on Mar 3, 2009 13:28:52 GMT -5
Review: `Watchmen' almost too faithful to book
Published: 3/2/09, 9:25 PM EDT
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
(AP) - Hey, fanboys. Yeah, you guys, the ones who flooded my inbox with e-mails after I trashed Zack Snyder's "300," wishing birth defects on my unborn children and suggesting that perhaps my husband isn't - ahem - keeping me satisfied.
Yes, I've read "Watchmen." I understand why it matters culturally, why it's considered revolutionary in its exploration of flawed superheroes, why it moved you. It moved me, too. And still - or, rather, because of that - I found director Snyder's adaptation hugely disappointing, faithful as it is to the graphic novel.
That rigid reverence should please purists - tiny details from individual comic-book panels are recreated lovingly on the big screen - but it also contributes to the film's considerable bloat. At almost three hours, "Watchmen" tries to cram in nearly everything writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons originally depicted, but then the ending feels rushed. (And it's slightly different. That's all we'll say.)
Much of what made the graphic novel so compelling with the cadence of the writing. (Moore wanted no part of the movie, though, so you won't see his name among the credits.) There's a rhythm that sucks you in, with time shifts and overlapping story lines, often within the same panel. There's a richness to the characters, their philosophical debates and their origin stories.
And there's something powerful about reading those words and internalizing them that doesn't translate cinematically, such as when the tortured Rorschach says in voice-over the same thing he wrote in his journal: "Beneath me, this awful city, it screams like an abattoir full of retarded children." The line feels like bad pulp fiction, and like many others, it clangs on the ear when spoken. (David Hayter and Alex Tse co-wrote the script.)
If you haven't read the book, though, you'll be lost, especially during the opening titles that breeze through the story of the Watchmen's predecessors (to the tune of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'," one of several obvious song choices). Those were the Minutemen, mortals who dressed up in capes, leather and latex to fight crime in New York in the 1940s.
Now it's 1985 - or, at least, a twisted version of it where Richard Nixon remains president - and members of a new generation of superheroes, the Watchmen, are caught in a murder mystery years after they disbanded.
One of their own, the right-wing military mercenary the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), has been thrown out the window of his high-rise apartment. It's up to his former colleagues, including Rorschach (an eerie Jackie Earle Haley), the good-guy Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson), the sexy Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman), the brilliant Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) and the godlike Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), to dust off their get-ups and find out what happened, even as the possibility looms of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviets.
Snyder has been hailed as a visionary director - primarily by the studio releasing the movie - but "300" and "Watchmen" both prove he's really a skilled mimic, albeit one with visual flair. His violent New York is tangibly gritty, but at the same time some of his larger set pieces, like the ones that take place on Mars, look distractingly cartoony.
As for the performances, Wilson brings smarts and pathos to his mensch of a character, while Akerman, as the woman he loves, is too one-note. Crudup's subtleties go to waste as the nude and radiantly blue Dr. Manhattan, the only Watchman who really does have superpowers. He's depicted here through motion-capture, his soft voice providing sharp contrast with his character's muscular physique.
Pity, too, because Dr. Manhattan's complicated journey is perhaps the breathtaking story that "Watchmen" the novel has to offer.
"Watchmen," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language. Running time: 161 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=7571&eeid=6422931&_sitecat=1479&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=0&ck=&ch=en&s=mo&rg=blsadstrgt&_lid=332&_lnm=todays+guide+entertainment+movies |
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Post by PLANET Nuke on Mar 9, 2009 14:51:40 GMT -5
I saw it and while it wasnt a masterpiece i wasnt totally dissapointed.
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Post by BigFaker on Mar 9, 2009 15:04:43 GMT -5
Don't think I'm gonna bother to be honest. It's too long, I've never heard of the novel and it's too long.
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Post by bbsy2 on Mar 13, 2009 20:36:00 GMT -5
You need to forgive Matt, he can't last more than an hour.
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Post by BigFaker on Mar 13, 2009 20:53:19 GMT -5
You need to forgive Matt, he can't last more than an hour. Anything over an hour is too much effort.  |
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Post by DRAVEN on Mar 13, 2009 21:16:05 GMT -5
You need to forgive Matt, he can't last more than an hour. Anything over an hour is too much effort. i don't know...if it can be done several times, over the course of multiple hours...sometimes that's okay... |
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Post by Mutant Crouch on Mar 13, 2009 22:42:59 GMT -5
It was actually okay. I was expecting a lot worse. The Comedian and Rorschach were fantastic. I liked the way they created Dr. Manhattan too. The soundtrack was awful, it would have done better with a score. It would have been nice to see what Terry Gilliam could have done with it.
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Post by moneyinthebank on Mar 13, 2009 22:57:48 GMT -5
I decided NOT to see it. Similar to me NOT seeing the Dark Knight.
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Post by b_Pooly on Mar 15, 2009 16:16:18 GMT -5
The soundtrack was crap..... Rorschach was freaking awesome!
That's about it.
The ending, uh wtf kind of heroes were they?
could have been much better, but it was decent.
"Give me back my face!" was an awesome line!
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Post by Venom Punk on Mar 15, 2009 21:16:27 GMT -5
I agree with you about the crappy soundtrack. It's not that they were bad songs, it's just that they weren't good for the movie. Especially the cover of Desolation Row at the end.
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Post by b_Pooly on Mar 15, 2009 21:18:11 GMT -5
I agree with you about the crappy soundtrack. It's not that they were bad songs, it's just that they weren't good for the movie. Especially the cover of Desolation Row at the end. yeah, in my opinion, the film wasn't strong enough to have that random a selection of songs, especially the one played during the sex scene. |
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Post by Venom Punk on Mar 15, 2009 21:23:17 GMT -5
I agree with you about the crappy soundtrack. It's not that they were bad songs, it's just that they weren't good for the movie. Especially the cover of Desolation Row at the end. yeah, in my opinion, the film wasn't strong enough to have that random a selection of songs, especially the one played during the sex scene. Yeah, that song made the scene very cringeworthy. |
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