bac 
damnit...that looks good.
so is anybody else going to boycott it?
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bac Oh side note, if you havn't read the Graphic Novel yet (which you should go do...buy it, download it, steal it) I'd be careful reading the comments further due to what I can only imagine will be some ass-clown handing out SPOILERS.
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Unmerciful Crushing Force
I just picked up an issue of Entertainment Weekly that had an article on this. It sounded like, contrary to everything that worried most fans, Synder was going to not do his usual antics.
This trailer for the most part shows that. But I really wish that he had just saved the frame-rate ramps.
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BillFisto
EXPLODING CHINAMAN ACTION!
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bac vietnameseman action.
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Knuckles
I saw no penis.
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yourmother
Do I see rorschach's mask constantly shifting? I think I do...
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fluffy
This new DC/Marvel rivalry is at least somewhat less ridiculous than the last one.
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Merzbau
Cautiously optimistic about this one. No doubt it'll be dumbed down, and we know it'll be heavily abridged, but hopefully Snyder (or whoever wrote the screenplay) can figure out what's essential.
Is anyone else amused that they're using a song from the Batman & Robin soundtrack to advertise this?
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Aoi Well, he claims that in adapting the graphic novel, rather than deconstructing comic book superheroes, they're aiming to deconstruct movie superheroes. Thus, Nite Owl switches from Adam-West like everyhero with primary color super-ship, cave, and spandex costume to flashy tech ship, armor-y shiny armored suit, etc, amongst other things. And, you know, suit-nipples and groin-plate on Oxymandias, c/o Batman & Robin.
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a flaming monkey yeah...That Pumpkins song...recycled. How ironic, since the hawkman guy looks kind of like batman.
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gambol Yes, that's true, although both of them were on the Batman and Robin soundtrack, coincidentally enough, one at the beginning and one at the end. They are the same song more or less, one slow and one fast.
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Hooker
Night Owl: Indistinguishable from Batman!
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mysterycar guys, guys, they're BOTH indistinguishable from batman
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mysterycar
holy freaking hell, this looks amazing so far
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snothouse
Well, now that I don't have to look at the terrible comic art, I want to see it.
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Chancho Let's hope the mediocre writing is gone too.
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kingarthur I know you're trolling but....fucking Philistines. Go back to whatever backwater spawned you with that proud-in-your-ignorance bullshit.
There. I'm calm now.
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bac thank you for beating me to it.
I'll be damned though if this isn't the second person I've heard say the art is bad...which makes me really think the human race should stop being.
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Nikon >now that I don't have to look at the terrible comic art,
From now on, you should read aloud what you typed to make sure it isn't fucking retarded.
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jangbones
Looks pretty and all, but this will probably be no more than a visually interesting and shallow adaptation of the book.
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ProfessorChaos
Oh, God, Yes!
Also: I thought the actor playing Dr. Manhattan looked like Sean Astin, for a split-second, at first.
I panicked.
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ProfessorChaos Apolgies. I mean I thought he was Seann William Scott, and also got the name mixed up.
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Billie_J_Buttfuck
Oh, I have such high hopes for this one.
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Xenocide
Saw movie trailer today. Looks nice. Am hardly in it. Later, made rapist drink scalding acid. Hrm.
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meamlegion
I was considering boycotting it... but damn this looks good. however in order for this to be actually amazing it will have to be nearly 3 hours long or more.
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Aoi Apparantly, 'around 3 hours' is the length that's generally being tossed around, these days.
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KnowFuture
This...actually looks like they may not have fucked it up too badly.
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Camonk
This has made to decide to finally up and read the goddamned graphic novel already. Fuck. Fine. I'll do it already, pretty decent-looking movie!
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kingarthur
I had a literature-gasm.
I'm going to see it. However, if you haven't read the book, you owe it to yourself to read it and appreciate it.
Now let's hope they don't change the ending.
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Camonk Yeah the book was actually incredibly awesome and I am glad this trailer made me stop being a lazy shit and read it.
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BHWW
Well I am intrigued even though nothing Snyder has done so far has wowed me. I might give this a chance.
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Hooper_X
Sold.
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zatojones
yeah i'll see this
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Lurchi
Looks ok but there's going to be a hell of a lot of bad expository dialogue. You know it.
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Tstyle
From the visionary director of 300
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Mr.Graves
Oh, hello there. YES.
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JSP
No.
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ztc Please elaborate. I like reading your grumpy opinions.
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JSP My anger here really isn't all that spectacular; I can't see this without thinking of Snyder swearing up and down that he will make the most faithful version of Watchmen possible in the face of the fact that the most faithful adaptation already exists and was written by Alan Moore and it's a book called Watchmen.
We seem to live in a culture where a thing cannot truly be said to exist until someone makes a movie out of it, and that annoys me.
Honestly I'm sure I'd have a different opinion in a world where there was no book but just this movie, and I don't begrudge others their enjoyment of the movie, but I won't be seeing it and to me - again I stress, to me - it looks like insulting shit, conceptually.
There's more but this site's about videos and not my thesis on same. You know?
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Magical Man from Happy-Land
this movie will suck
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Corman's Inferno
Night-Owl's costume gave me an erection.
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oswaldtheluckyrabbit
I don't know. We'll see.
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Squeamish
I WANT TO BELIEVE
But I'm banking on disappointment.
Eh, what the hell. It'll be a good way to waste an evening anyway.
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chumbucket
drop the smashed pumpernickel tune and this trailer will truly rock
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Boxhead
I really hope this doesn't pull a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and whitewash everything interesting out of the characters in favor of marketability and ability for Larry T. Cockhead to identify with them.
I am vaguely nervous in that Night-Owl seems to have lost his gut and is generally cooler than his comic book self, undermining one of the big themes of the comic, the aging of superheroes.
I do find it interesting how much Snyder realizes that those graphic novel artists seem to have an idea how to set up a good scene and follows the framing exactly.
Cautiously optimistic.
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Aoi That point, that Nite Owl doesn't look out of shape enough, in particular in his 'drop out of the air into the crouching 'I AM THE BAT' pose' shot, had me thinking: maybe that happened when they were facing off with the anti-vigilante rioters? Back when he was younger and fitter?
He did kick a lot of ass even in his old, out-of-shape self, so the running leaping punch-thing from the prison isn't too bizarre, particularly viewed from behind. And hell, the suit looks to be made out of armor-like materials like current batsuits, rather than the spandex from the comic. Maybe he wears a girdle underneath it...
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divinitycycle
Saw this on the big screen at the Dark Knight opening last night.
In the theater with the big sound system and hi def screen, it is indeed "HOLY FUCK"
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Tyrathca
NOT SURE IF WANT
But seriously, watching this trailer just made me re-read the book and godDAMN it is good. It is good.
5'in it just for that...
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Rodents of Unusual Size
5 stars because this might well ruin Watchmen for me forever.
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Chinballs
This trailer, like the movie itself, fulfills the awesome requirement.
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Vicious
Ha ha it suuuuucked.
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