GalacticMu

This is going to be a hard one.

I’ve known it was coming. But the gulf between preparing one’s self and actually facing the music is a big one.

I’m talking, of course, about Watchmen movie.

Of all the comic book stories in all the world, this is the one that I feel most protective of. This is my giant fanboy experience and if they fuck this up I am going to fall out of love with Hollywood forever. And so it is with the timid, fragile, quivering heart of a teenager that I watch the now-available trailer for Watchmen and think, “It’s not perfect, but … could it be? Good?”

Good?

• Casting looks promising - what was once slated to star both Keanu Reeves and Jude Law now is cast by semi-unknowns
• Effects are pretty
• Rorschach’s mask swirls!
• Yay Archie! It appears they didn’t update Archie into “awesome” Batmobile-level absurdity

Break my heart?

• My favorite character, Dr. Manhattan, looks… too real. Veiny?
• Might just be trailer-politics, but man does it look way overly action-packed
• The Silk Spectres had bad costumes before - and the new ones aren’t any better
• Some scenes appear overly stylistic (giant Dr. Manhattan, for example) and not in keeping with Gibbons’ style of comic realism

Lightly Flashy offical Watchmen website, with trailer.