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[Watchmen] All a Man Needs is Canned Beans and Sugar Cubes (SPOILERS)

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edited March 2009 in Debate and/or Discourse
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

Release date - 03.06.09 (March 6th 2009)

Trailer 1
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

Hey Empire has a comic-trailer comparison
The song is "The End is the Beginning is the End" by the Smashing Pumpkins from their B-Track and Rarities, now available on iTunes I do believe.

Trailer 2
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/watchmen.html?showVideo=1

w00t


I am absolutely stoked. Any doubt I have about Zack Synder doing this is gone. The man knows the material


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The ending has been confirmed as altered. Pray it is not altered any further

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    FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    It looks really good, but I can't get over how they're using the Smashing Pumpkins song from that crappy Batman sequel.

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    AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    dude

    dude

    DUDE

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    TheSuperWootTheSuperWoot Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Very happy to see it. I remember at comic-con last year Zack said if you didn't use the comic as a storyboard for the movie you were "full of shit". I guess he took that to heart.

    I just wish they would've played it before I saw TDK on Tuesday.

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    edited July 2008
    TheSuperWoot wrote: »
    Very happy to see it. I remember at comic-con last year Zack said if you didn't use the comic as a storyboard for the movie you were "full of shit". I guess he took that to heart.

    I just wish they would've played it before I saw TDK on Tuesday.

    Every interview and quote I've heard from Zack whatshisname on this movie has been awesome.

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    Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Ozymandias looks pretty... terrible.

    The rest looks good, though. I'm surprised how well they made Doctor Manhattan look.

    ... Seriously.

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    reminderGTOreminderGTO Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Feels Good Man wrote: »
    Ozymandias looks pretty... terrible.


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    Yeah really. I laughed a little when I saw him.

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    TM2 RampageTM2 Rampage Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So uh here's some HD versions http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/hd/

    So, the trailer was pretty impressive.

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    gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Well, at least it'll look very nice.

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    ChopperDaveChopperDave Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    reminderGTO wrote: »
    =Yeah really. I laughed a little when I saw him.

    Check out 1:34 though. It's definitely him clobbering the gunman in the lobby, but he's wearing a suit rather than his costume. Hopefully that'll look better and will be used more in the film.... :/

    He just looks too boyish to be a guy in his late 30s or early 40s (even if he is a perfectly fit guy of that age).

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    HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    That looked awesome.

    I don't even like Watchmen that much but damn does this look promising.

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    ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Fuck yea, Rorschach sounds exactly as I imagined.

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    jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    New Entertainment Weekly Watchmen cover, spoilered for size:
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    And the EW article, with more pictures:

    http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213273,00.html

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Holy shit.

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    AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    'In my movie, Superman doesn't care about humanity, Batman can't get it up, and the bad guy wants world peace,'' Snyder says with a smirk.

    D:

    I mean, I guess he's proud of it. But still...

    D:

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    TrueHereticXTrueHereticX We are the future Charles, not them. They no longer matter. Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I just finished reading the graphic novel

    I echo the holy shit

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    CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Look at Ozymandius' mask holy shit

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited July 2008
    Did they actually have the guts to show Manhattan wang when he BAMFes in the cafeteria scene?

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    jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Yeah, you can make out the wang, the whole sequence looks just like the Dave Gibbons panel.

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited July 2008
    That was actually my first thought when I first heard of the Watchmen movie: "I wonder if Manhattan will prance around nekkid."

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    UrianUrian __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2008
    Is the "God help us all" line from Manhattan?

    Also, yeah the movie pretty much looks perfect. Just as I expected, Snyder nailed the visuals down perfectly and it seems like he's going to do the movie scene-for-scene identically to the comic, which is just what I wanted.

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    JohnDoeJohnDoe Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    That was a pretty awesome trailer.

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    David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Echo wrote: »
    Did they actually have the guts to show Manhattan wang when he BAMFes in the cafeteria scene?
    And is it bad that my reaction to seeing that scene was "*gasp* Penis!"?

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    HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So, after reading the article, I take it the movie is going to be just as annoyingly pretentious as the comic?

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    JohnDoeJohnDoe Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    So, after reading the article, I take it the movie is going to be just as annoyingly pretentious as the comic?

    Imagine that, they're actually making the movie for people who enjoyed the comic!

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    SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I wasn't going to watch this until I saw The Dark Knight on Saturday, but I figure it's better not to have too much awesomeness seen in one day. Better to space it out.

    Looks good.

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    ANTVGM64ANTVGM64 Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    PLEASE tell me they are putting this in front of Dark Knight along with the new Terminator Trailer.

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    ubernekouberneko Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    ANTVGM64 wrote: »
    PLEASE tell me they are putting this in front of Dark Knight along with the new Terminator Trailer.

    They are.

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    SchrodingerSchrodinger Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Is it just me, or was the music even more emo than usual?

    It reminded me of Andy Sandberg's SNL parody of super hero music videos.

    Anyway, visuals look good, but I'm still skeptical on their ability to cut the story down.

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    ProtoProto Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    So, after reading the article, I take it the movie is going to be just as annoyingly pretentious as the comic?

    I'm curious, how exactly is it pretentious?

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    JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Schrodinger wrote: »
    Is it just me, or was the music even more emo than usual?

    It's Smashing Pumpkins.

    It's also the same song which was featured for Batman and Robin. Feel free to let that freak you out.


    But yeah, loved the trailer aside from Ozymandis and the music was kinda meh.

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    SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Yeah, the music was definitely the worst part of this trailer, but then again, I am not a fan of Smashing Pumpkins.

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    ProtoProto Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    CJTheran wrote: »
    Look at Ozymandius' mask holy shit

    Looks like robins from Batman and Robin. But I think that was intentional. The costumes in the book took cues from the cheesy costumes of the 60s'-70's, the movie is doing the same using the older comic book movies. Pretty ballsy.

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    TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I don't like the pumpkins, but I thought the music was great.

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    HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Proto wrote: »
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    So, after reading the article, I take it the movie is going to be just as annoyingly pretentious as the comic?

    I'm curious, how exactly is it pretentious?

    The whole "This is going to kick superhero movies in the balls and make people take them seriously because we're not some kiddy flick, we're rated R because we have penises and a guy who kills people and another guy who also kills people and rapes them and then makes them... fall in love with him... presumably by raping them and we have some guy who doesn't actually know how quantum physics works and anyway the point is that this movie is going to be so hardcore" thing screamed poser to me when I read Watchmen and I get the same feeling from reading that article.

    But it sure does look pretty.

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    IceyIcey Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You must have read a different version of Watchmen.

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    DredZedDredZed Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I think the music was very cool, and fitting for the feel of the novel/movie. I just looked up the lyrics, and they actually mesh surprisingly well with the story.

    Also, the trailer itself was absolutely stunning. I could pick out exactly where in the comic almost every shot in the trailer originated. That alone says a hell of a lot for their faithfulness to the source material.

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    ProtoProto Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Love that scene with Dr. looking at his watch just before he gets ripped apart. I wonder if they'll include the inner monologue leading up to that. The line "The light...the light is taking me to pieces" always gives me chills.

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    ANTVGM64ANTVGM64 Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You must have read a different version of Watchmen.

    I hope so because I totally just got spoilerfied if that's what happens.

    Yeah, I've avoided Spoilers for Watchmen for this long.

    I ordered it the other day.

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    itylusitylus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    The likelihood that this will be anything other than a complete travesty of the comic seems extremely low to me. But I will be very, very happy to learn that I'm wrong.

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    ProtoProto Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    ANTVGM64 wrote: »
    You must have read a different version of Watchmen.

    I hope so because I totally just got spoilerfied if that's what happens.

    Yeah, I've avoided Spoilers for Watchmen for this long.

    I ordered it the other day.

    And then you wandered into this thread.... good idea!

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