Watchmen Trailer

Watchmen will not come close to beating Dark Knight. Dark Knight is a PG-13 story made for movie.
Watchmen is a rated R comic re-enactment 3 hours long which will leave people scratching their head wondering what it was about.
It will be a hot with people who have read Watchmen but the vast majority of people will not know the story.
The Black Freighter is an animated movie that will be released separately.
This is a 3 hour advertisement for the comic. Expecting it to be anything else is fooling yourself.

Are you telling me that if A comic book writer decides to sit down and make something, it's art. But if a movie director takes the original art and puts his own spin on it, it becomes a lower form of art or not art at all?

I'm sorry, but have you heard of a little thing called "Fan Art"? Granted, it's not exactly the same thing. Fan art doesn't stay as true to the original work as a movie adaptation. But, would a photographer's picture of a building, a piece of art itself, not be considered art just because he's esentially moving the piece of architecture to another medium?

I think you all ready know my answer to this.

Something tells me that Zach Snyder lacks a certain sensitivity and nuance that Watchmen definitely requires. Actually, "Dawn of the Dead" and "300" tell me that pretty succinctly. As far as the director is concerned, I'd love to see him make an original film. I'm curious as to how that would turn out.

I personally don't see movie adaptations as any sort of elevation of form. As soon as you adapt someone else's work you remove the original creative voice from the piece and it becomes a husk. All the themes and concepts are no longer the original artists'... you're now reinterpreting them through a completely different lens. There's no artistic voice. What's the point? To put your own fingerprint on someone else's work? To show some neat visuals that still look better on the page and in our minds? To make money? There really isn't any point. It's futile.

Watchmen is an excellent comic... haunting, intelligent, uncompromising. We should let art lie where art fell and stop trying to regurgitate it to such stale and ill effect.

So The trailer for the watchmen the movie comes out everyone except alan moore has been waiting for for years and all we can talk about is the fuckin song I saw this trailer at dark night and I friggin teared up a little I was so amazed.

I don't think Alan Moore will even say much about this movie. He sounds like he's given up on talking about people recreating his work. And when they started the movie the director assumed Moore would want his name taken off of it (as he does with every adaptation of his work) so the sent him the paper work right off the bat to sign his share of the royalties over the Dave Gibbons. In the interview I read more actually seemed pretty happy with the director to have the foresight to know at least that much about him and how he feels about his work... unlike Joel Silver when V for Vendetta was made, whew that didn't go well.

The trailer was interesting enough - looks like a movie I'd check out... but I can't say I was blown away by it.

I acknowledge that the previous Batman movies were a pile of steaming hot turds. However I do get occasional enjoyment laughing at them from time to time. I didn't recognize the song at all. It sorta seems slightly crazy that so many did when I would have thought that if they were so scarred by the movie they would have just blocked it out of their memories for all eternity or something. . .

The song was awesome, I liked that there was almost no dialogue in the trailer and there was pretty much only music. It was more comic-like imo, since for me comics have mostly been about the visuals. Also I haven't picked up the comic in months but I was still able to recognize that a lot of the trailer looked like exact frames from the comic. It was stunning as far as trailers go.

But I also acknowlege that movie trailers sometimes have a tendency to take only the best parts of movies in order to get people hyped up. In which case this trailer has set quite a standard for the movie for me.

As far as Alan Moore's opinions. . . People need to let their babies go at some point. . . There's too many artists out there giving their work away and then whining their asses off when whoever picks them up next doesn't do a good enough job. No one can ever reproduce something perfectly, and it's even harder to do decades later. . . Moore's entitled to his own opinion just like everyone else, that doesn't mean his is the end all be all. He writes comics, not movies. . . Similar though they may seem, they're still different mediums. . .

Here's to hoping the movie lives up to it's name (and trailer. . .) either way!

I don't know what you guys are talking about, the song totally made the trailer! I think it was a perfect choice and in response to those who don't like the trailer...well, it's not going to be exactly like you imagined it. I have friends who aren't into superheroes at all but they enjoyed Batman, cuz there were many more focuses, and they are actually looking forward to Watchen coming out. Just my thoughts...

For one, Smashing Pumpkins is doing some great new work. I'm pretty glad to have them back. Those who disagree... do you want Zwan back? Is that it?

For two, yes the previous Bats franchise went to he11 in a handbasket. That's pretty widely accepted. Nobody is going to argue.

For three.... anyone who has taken the time to appreciate Watchmen knows that Moore disowned this book so very long ago (when the film was pitched the FIRST time in the 80's) and then his writing went into a downward spiral. Now that they're paying him to actually make the film he gets to take back twenty years of washing his hands and play it off like he's got a problem with this? No. Just plain No.

He's a crackpot now but his book still reigns and the film had better hold up. I couldn't bear to have such an integral part of graphic novel history ruined for the new generation of fans.

For one, Smashing Pumpkins is doing some great new work. I'm pretty glad to have them back. Those who disagree... do you want Zwan back? Is that it?

For two, yes the previous Bats franchise went to he11 in a handbasket and we'd really rather forget it happened (post Keaton). That's pretty widely accepted. Nobody is going to argue.

For three.... anyone who has taken the time to appreciate Watchmen knows that Moore disowned this book so very long ago (when the film was pitched the FIRST time in the 80's) and then his writing went into a downward spiral. Now that they're paying him to actually make the film he gets to take back twenty years of washing his hands and play it off like he's got a problem with this? No. Just plain No.

He's a crackpot now but his book still reigns and the film had better hold up. I couldn't bear to have such an integral part of graphic novel history ruined for the new generation of fans.

For everyone that thinks the song is from "Batman & Robin", stop, it's a remixed version of the song. And on the note of the trailer, this movie looks so sick!

It's funny watching all the reactions to the trailer being focussed on the choice of song, especially when Schumacher's lame (and everyone on his bandwagon) got it wrong. The song in the trailer - "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning", by Smashing Pumpkins - wasn't IN "Batman and Robin". The song in "Batman and Robin" was "The End is the Beginning is the End". Yes, one is a much slower version of the other, but they aren't the same song.

As for the actual content of the trailer; wow. I was afraid they were going to excise Dr. Manhattan or the Vietnam subplot, but it looks like they're going for as much of it as they can cram in. Given the poor history of Moore adaptations, I'm trying to contain my expectations, but I have to say that it looks amazing. Sure, it's not the same as the book, but nothing could be. The audience certainly isn't going to accept a chubby Nite-Owl.

whats the song called?

Those of you who think it is too shiny and pretty, think about how the graphic novel's art was similar to the period and was a satirization of the comic book heroes at the time and then think about how comic book movies are now. This is a satirization of how comic book movies are today.

nfc, did you not notice that nearly every shot has been taken straight from the graphic novel?

Breathe. You can't breathe. "Breath" is the stuff that goes in and out of your lungs. "Breathe" is the act of doing so.

P.S. holycrapdudethistrailerruleshard

Holy God, I am actually HURT by this trailer. There's a reason Alan Moore's name isn't on it- this 'visionary' director has taken 'the most acclaimed graphic novel of all time' and bled it of all color and distinction- come on guys, it looks like every other gloomy, half-assed effort at b-superhero films over the last ten years.

The music is awesome dont care what the masses say..Smashing Pumpkins totally rule and that music gave the trailer a great atmosphere... As for the movie it looks visually inspiring but the graphic novel i believe wasnt going for such a glossy output, with the CGI overload and intense action.. The GN had more of a gritty realistic approach to superheroes. I think Alan Moore will most surely be walking out the cinema 5 minutes into this film.... THANKS THIS HAS BEEN THE MAGICIANS TWO CENTS

Shiny. Pretty.
I predict Alan Moore will either have an embolism or throw up his hands in resignation and go live in a secret underground bunker beneath Stonehenge.

This is a great song. Cant believe its in another movie. SP suck ass now but this song was released right before they started to sink. Trailer looks great btw.

Anyone who thinks the fact that the song was in Batman and Robin wasn't intentional is an idiot.

At the very least, the song is better here than before. Its finally gonna get the justice it deserves being apart of a movie that by all accounts looks pretty freaking amazing.

That trailer is so great except for the music. A slowed version of the Smashing Pumpkins song from Batman and Robin. That's a poor choice, it makes me think about a shitty movie while I'm gaining knowledge on one that will kick ass. I'm sure we all like to think about diarrhea while we eat our hot fudge sundaes.

What a lame choice for music, the Smashing Pumpkins song (cool) from that Schumacher masterpiece Batman and Robin (crap). They could have used something that wouldn't remind us of a P.O.S. movie while watching an awesome trailer. Because I'm sure we all just love to think of diarrhea while eating a hot fudge sundae

I am speechless, time to break out the Graphic Novel!!