Watchmen movie thread

[Grimmie]

Didn't think this was discoboard worthy, so I thought I'd chuck it here.

Hadn't realised that the soundtrack to the movie trailer* was a Smashing Pumpkin's remix of their own song "The beginning of the end of the beginning".
Did a bit of scouring and found some youtoob videos of it with a small download link to the song.
I am enjoying it. A lot. Repeatedly.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybULQm-IAGY[/media]

* (now in non apple-quicktime flavour at http://www.empireonline.com/video/watchmen )

modedit: Changed thread name

[Joose]

Im quietly wetting myself with glee.

[Grimmie]

Upon further inspection. Original song was "The end is the beginning is the end"
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Smashing+P ... is+the+End

The remix is "The beginning is the end is the beginning".
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Smashing+P ... +Beginning

[spoodie]

That is a great trailer, made all the more so by the music. I'm not going to let myself get too excited about the final movie though.

[HereComesPete]

Given the hollywood treatment of his last few comic to film adaptations, I wouldn't expect much of this one either, but I would like it to actually turn up in its three hour format and not be edited to fuck because fox

a) dislike trying to capture the attention spans of vacant eyed sheep like merkins who's thoughts are on their next oversized meal.

and

b) Seem destined to forget that this is imo primarily a geek movie, it'll get plenty of people watching it unless they mess around with it then those numbers will drop significantly.

[Grimmie]

They don't seem to have made massive hovering owl spaceship look any less geeky, and apart from slightly less 80's costumes, it looks pretty true to the original.
Glad they haven't given naked blue man any dumb outfit.

[Mr. Johnson]

They don't seem to have made massive hovering owl spaceship look any less geeky, and apart from slightly less 80's costumes, it looks pretty true to the original.
Glad they haven't given naked blue man any dumb outfit.

i read the comic after i saw the trailer, and it seems to be true enough. i still fear for it though.

[spoodie]

Glad they haven't given naked blue man any dumb outfit.

I think he does cover the blue dong at one stage in the comic, when he's killing Vietnamese or something.

[Grimmie]

I think he does cover the blue dong at one stage in the comic, when he's killing Vietnamese or something.

Puts on a silly suit when he goes public for the first time, a suit for the funeral, and.. Yeah. The crotchhugger when he goes postal in Vietnam.

<img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/2afea8m.gif">

[Joose]

I think he does cover the blue dong at one stage in the comic, when he's killing Vietnamese or something.

The government make him cover up, and then he slowly re-nakeds himself as the years go on.

[FatherJack]

I like superhero movies, but I've never heard of this, so won't care how close it is to the graphic novel. Heroes has shown how the genre can have popular appeal, but they'd be daft to piss off the fans of the original by changing it too much.

One reason I think Heroes and the other "big" live-action versions of comic book have had mass popularity is that they always show the origins of the characters - in Batman's case, several times - so the new audience doesn't feel left out having not read the stories before, but I do wonder how much enjoyment people get who already know what's going to happen.

[Anhamgrimmar]

Given the hollywood treatment of his last few comic to film adaptations, I wouldn't expect much of this one either, but I would like it to actually turn up in its three hour format and not be edited to fuck because fox

a) dislike trying to capture the attention spans of vacant eyed sheep like merkins who's thoughts are on their next oversized meal.

and

b) Seem destined to forget that this is imo primarily a geek movie, it'll get plenty of people watching it unless they mess around with it then those numbers will drop significantly.

Y'know, i've heard this argument before, and i still don't get it. I've watched From Hell, i've watched V for Vendetta, and i enjoyed them. Never reade the books, and don't really intend to either (I am planning to read watchmen, but thats because i've actually heard of that one). how much of this argument is geek rage (I'm not aiming this at you pete, but is it just a case of OMG YOU TOOK SOMETHING HOLY AND PURE AND RAEPED IT UP TEH BUMHOLE!) or is it something else?


Also, with reference to the song, i quite liked the slo-mo mustang burnout played to this track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGPIMACKdoQ

[HereComesPete]

I entirely agree. I don't generally care too much what people do. If I made a movie it'd suck a lot harder than these adaptations. I enjoyed v for vendetta and from hell, I even moderately enjoyed constantine despite reeves.

I think it's maybe geek rage stemming partly from the fact that they have vivid idea in their head as to how things should be and who would play who in a film, and it's not the same as the directors.

[Mr. Johnson]

i didn't enjoy v from vendetta, but i didn't read the comic book either. i tried to read it once but decided it had too much text. I did like from hell though, and i didn't read that either.

[Grimmie]

Ps. If anyone wants I can upload the ~200mb CBR zip file.

[Anhamgrimmar]

Ps. If anyone wants I can upload the ~200mb CBR zip file.

RIS?

[Anhamgrimmar]

OOOH! hell, i've just thunked of a new futurebash plan.



How many people are planning to watch the watchmen at a cinema?

Cause it sounds like the sort of film that most of us would try and get to see on a big screen, and even i could be persuaded to overide my hatred of public cinemas to watch this....

[HereComesPete]

I doubt cinema for me. I dislike paying the money they charge these days.

[FatherJack]

I wonder how much it costs to rent a cinema for just us?

[HereComesPete]

I wonder how much it costs to rent a cinema for just us?

Or a pub with a few big tv's for gayming and filum watching.