The world will look up and shout ‘save us!’ And I’ll whisper ‘no.’
Posted by Sunday on Jul 18, 2008 at 12:12 pm in Movies, Things That Make Sunday CryThis 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.
you’re a tougher man than i. i’m still avoiding it.
The giant Dr. Manhattan isn’t “overly stylistic.” It’s a direct translation of the graphic novel. There is a panel of an enormous Dr. Manhattan walking through the Vietnamese jungle, blowing up stuff.
I’m not referring to the circumstance that Dr. Manhattan is in, just that the actual art direction in that frame is stylistic rather than realistic – the entire scene is water-colory and luminescent. It’s a very much in keeping with the director’s personal style (see: 300), and not Dave Gibbons’.