First GTA4 and now Watchmen rape the soundtrack to Koyaanisqasti making both weaker.

Nice to see Rorschach's face warp still in place, but why make them so bloody obvious, since it was cool finding them changing frame to frame in the original graphical novel.

I can't wait 'til every nitwit sees this movie and thinks they have experienced Watchmen. It's like reading Citizen Kane, the comic book. Can we stop filming every decent thing that has ever been written please?

Very first sign of the dumbing-down of the story even further than the bare translation. "Watchmen are finished"... There are no "watchmen" in the comic. The only reference to that word is in a grafitti slogan that is seen tagged around the city. 99% of people who haven't read the comic think the movie is about a super-team called "The Watchmen". Fucking retards.

>> ^budzos:
99% of people who haven't read the comic think the movie is about a super-team called "The Watchmen". Fucking retards.


Um, I'm not quite sure what else you would expect 99% of the people who haven't read the comic to think it's about since they have, well how can I put this lightly. NEVER READ THE COMIC!?

Why on earth do you feel obligated to insult people for their ignorance when they are clearly justified in having said ignorance to begin with? Your comment makes no sense to me.

This is the 2nd trailer. There is no 3rd.

I believe they changed the group's name from Crimebusters to Watchmen to avoid any confusion that people might have derived from the title. Yes, it is inaccurate to the original graphic novel, but it really isn't that significant a change.

There will be changes in order to make the story flow better as a movie, but every indication we've seen seems to be that the movie will be quite accurate to the graphic novel. A lot of work has gone into making the movie please the fans, and it's a pity to see some elitists complaining about everything they can possibly complain about. You don't like what you see? Don't watch the movie. As for me, I don't mind that the squid won't be in it, as long as the change still fits within the storyline.

For those of us who are longtime fans of Lord of the Rings, the movies had some pretty big deviations from the source material, a lot of which rubbed me wrong in a big way. (The witch-king overpowers Gandalf in the extended scene of RotK? That can't possibly happen, considering Gandalf's origins.) But I still saw it in theaters, and I still bought the DVDs because despite the differences, the movies were still very enjoyable.

I suspect this will be the same case for Watchmen.

Jeez Farhad and Budzos...you guys seem awfully critical of this without having even seen the damn thing. Seriously, why form an opinion based on a trailer?
Anyhoo, I'm willing to bet I'm far more of a watchmen fanboi than you are and I almost come in my pants every time I see these trailers.

I thought 300 hundred was fantastically faithful to the source material considering the change of medium. I'm confident that this will be the same.

Anyway anyone who uses Muse in a soundtrack automatically gets my upvote.

The retards are the ones making the movie. I can see that was not clear.

300 was a comic book designed by Frank Miller to be "cinematic." Same with Sin City. So those properties don't suffer for the adaptation (even though I resent the making of Sin City as well). Spider Man, Superman, etc.. are all part of a greater mythology and have been multi-media more than twice most of our ages. The rest of the adaptations are just "comic book bullshit" and it doesn't matter what happens with it because it's nonsense thought up by nerdy fuckheads in their teens and twenties for the most part.

Watchmen was expressly designed to be the nexus of everything that comic books have been and could be. To anyone who cares, 300 is to Watchmen as Commando is to Casablanca. The story is fantastic and the story will translate well, but it's about the MEDIUM and what can be done with it.

I don't care about the changes. To be honest I'm sure the movie will be great, probably the best comic book adaptaion of all time. I'll be there opening day. That doesn't change the fact that I wish they weren't making it, so that more people would end up READING Watchmen rather than WATCHING it. They could make the most perfect adaptation of all time and I'd still resent the concept of a Watchmen movie.

The "Citizen Kane" parallel is not made lightly. Seeing Watchmen without having read the comic is just like reading Citizen Kane the comic book. It's not the experience the author intended. It's adulterated.

Comics are basically movie storyboards, so saying that it won't translate well into cinema is a stupid thing to say.

The fact of the matter is more people will read the novel BECAUSE they're making the movie. Seriously, hmv and zavvi/virgin have been selling bucket loads of the things because of the hype around the movie.

Also note that a lot more people are reading and will read the graphic novel because of the movie. I have at least 3 friends I've convinced to read the graphic novel just because they thought the Watchmen trailer was some "sweet sh**." I'm pretty certain that they wouldn't have been all that interested before they saw the fancy special effects. (Shallow, but anything that gets them, eh?) And imagine all the people that will want to read it after they've seen the movie.

And for those that don't . . . well, they probably wouldn't have read it anyway, so at least they got some exposure through the movie.

Comics are basically movie storyboards, so saying that it won't translate well into cinema is a stupid thing to say.

If you're talking to me: That's not what I said, genius. Go read Citizen Kane the comic book if you think the mediums are so interchangeable.

I thought Citizen Kane was a pile of steaming crap anyway so I would view that as a pointless endeavor.

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Muse in the trailer? YAY alsome *commercial for the movie

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The movie was great and certainly as good as the comic. You should keep your pipe in when you haven't seen it, because really, you were wrong.

>> ^budzos:
The retards are the ones making the movie. I can see that was not clear.
300 was a comic book designed by Frank Miller to be "cinematic." Same with Sin City. So those properties don't suffer for the adaptation (even though I resent the making of Sin City as well). Spider Man, Superman, etc.. are all part of a greater mythology and have been multi-media more than twice most of our ages. The rest of the adaptations are just "comic book bullshit" and it doesn't matter what happens with it because it's nonsense thought up by nerdy fuckheads in their teens and twenties for the most part.
Watchmen was expressly designed to be the nexus of everything that comic books have been and could be. To anyone who cares, 300 is to Watchmen as Commando is to Casablanca. The story is fantastic and the story will translate well, but it's about the MEDIUM and what can be done with it.
I don't care about the changes. To be honest I'm sure the movie will be great, probably the best comic book adaptaion of all time. I'll be there opening day. That doesn't change the fact that I wish they weren't making it, so that more people would end up READING Watchmen rather than WATCHING it. They could make the most perfect adaptation of all time and I'd still resent the concept of a Watchmen movie.
The "Citizen Kane" parallel is not made lightly. Seeing Watchmen without having read the comic is just like reading Citizen Kane the comic book. It's not the experience the author intended. It's adulterated.