Watchmen (2009)

If this does not get released... I'd... I'd... cry! :cry:

But seriously, why would Fox take claim on Watchmen?
 
I love how many people are being so pleasantly surprised by the film, because they have no idea what to expect and end up loving it :D



Definitely :nod: Which is also why they make a good team :D

I'm going to go see it again tomorrow! :yay:
 
Ditto you guys! When I watch it again I'll keep an eye on the details for sure. I know I must've missed so much!

I also object to the use of "Hallelujah", that song is everywhere and it was cheesy.
 
From Entertainment Weekly, in regards to the photo

I've long wondered how even a filmmaker as inventive as Zack Snyder is going to be able to do justice to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' epic Watchmen. One of the unique virtues of their graphic novel is the way it takes full advantage of its medium — the overlap of words, pictures, and supplemental material — to tell a complete story, full of overlapping plot strands, parallels of past, present, and future, of events in the story and the literary and pictorial allusions that comment on them. It seemed inevitable that a lot of that material would have to be streamlined or jettisoned for Watchmen to work as a movie.

Fortunately, it looks like Snyder is doing his best to keep the extensive backstory and sidestory material. Watchmen is set in a world that both reveres and scorns comic-book superheroes. The latter-day heroes at the story's center live their lives informed by the rich history of a previous generation of costumed crimefighters. Yesterday, the filmmakers released to Ain't It Cool News a class photo of the first-generation heroes, the Minutemen and that single photo should be enough to whet the appetites of Watchmenologists. Not only is it faithful to similar artwork from the Gibbons drawings, but the placement of the various Minutemen in the photo hints at the relationships that will be important later in the story. (Kneeling in the foreground is the Comedian, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whose latter-day actions are the story's catalyst.) Plus, the photo's warm sepia tone and, its quaint, baggy costumes suggest that the film will maintain a cheeky but fond reverence for the masked heroes who starred in the (real world's) earliest comic books.

That backstory will be further explored in a mockumentary called Under The Hood, a side project Snyder is overseeing, along with Tales of the Black Freighter, a grim pirate saga that appears in Watchmen in the form of a comic book one character reads throughout the story, offering a counterpoint to the main superhero plot. Both Under the Hood and Black Freighter will be released on DVD at the time of Watchmen's big-screen release next March. That's not quite the same thing as being able to enjoy these stories and refer back to them while reading the main Watchmen story, as you can with the graphic novel, but it's pretty close. Props to Snyder for trying to replicate as closely as possible the rich and allusive experience of reading the book — and to Warner Bros. for letting him do so.
 
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Ooh, I just checked IMDb, and it said the extended cut is being released on 21st July! :yay:

I'm not sure if that's for the States or UK, though. Probably the States.
 
I just saw it yesterday, it was great. One of the best action/comic films I have seen in a while. I want to see it again lol :nod:
 
Darn those other people! :lol:

Thanks for the vid!

There are some bad reviews out there of this movie already. Ugh, the tough part of the waiting process has begun.
 
I have been old that the sex and violence is graphic, very much so. It lives up to the R rating
 
:nod: The cinema my friend works at has big stands with the characters on them too, and everytime I walk past, I'm so tempted to steal them :lol: But it'd be a bit difficult considering they're downstairs, and also massive :P Unfortunately people who work there claimed them all before she could, so we totally miss out on getting any! :(

Second part of Jeffrey and Malin on Rove:

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I saw the trailer for the first time yesterday in the cinema, when I went to see Role Models!!! :woot: It was insanely exciting, but I was on my own with only two other guys in the screen, so I had to keep my squee to myself. Hardest thing ever :lol:
 
I really doubt that it'll be kept from theatres, if anything this will serve as more promotion.
 
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