AND I WILL WHISPER, "NO."

[sophistry]

OH MY FUCK WATCHMEN TRAILER

http://www.joblo.com/video/joblo/player.php?video=watchmentrlr

CAN'T DECIDE IF I LOVE IT OR HATE IT

MAYBE BOTH

MUSIC, OZYMANDIAS, SILK SPECTRE SUCK; RORSCHACH, DR. MANHATTAN, COMEDIAN, GENERAL VISUALS GLORIOUS

NITE OWL BETTER ON SCREEN THAN IN PROMO STILLS; STILL TOO BATMAN, NOT WASHED-UP ENOUGH

FFFUUUUUCK CHECK DR. MANHATTAN OUT SO PERFECT



WHY AREN'T MORE PEOPLE ON MY FLIST SPAZZING OUT ABOUT THIS

Comments

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

SLADKFKLJ;DSJKS!!!!!!!!


THESE ARE MY FEELINGS.


I NEED TO WATCH IT FIVE MORE TIMES.

[sophistry]

I think it would be fifty times amazinger with better music; I just, uh, have no idea what music that could be. Also, the trailer makes it look a little too... regular-superhero-action-movie? I don't know. I'm just not 100% convinced that the film isn't Missing The Point in some fundamental way that I am not yet capable of being coherent about.

[batyatoon]

... oh my god

Rorschach's VOICE




OH MY GOD, SOPHIE

*FLAAAAAAAILS*

[sophistry]

Rorschach's voice is actually one of the things I am conflicted about! It's not bad or anything - I just can't shake the feeling that I recognise it from somewhere, and it keeps throwing me off.

[batyatoon]

... see, I thought I recognized it too.

FROM THE COMIC.

[toko.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Oh, I do not feel good about this at all. Doctor Manhattan yes. Rorschach's look and voice, yes. Troublingly intense focus on irrelevant bits of Doctor Manhattan's backstory no. Rorschach's line reading no. In 2009! Marketing departments! Still will not get! That generic declarative statements with lots of dolly zoom! Are fucking stupid! No! Ozymandias, there is not enough no in the whole world.

And that had better not have been a rakish, Tony Stark-esque grin I saw the Comedian sporting, Mr. Visionary Director Of 300, or I am going to come to your house, grind you up into powder, and roll you into cigarettes for Warren Ellis to smoke.

Oh god, suddenly I'm really worried that this is going to be the worst victim yet of the Curse of Alan Moore Movies.

[toko.livejournal.com]

Ack. I just looked up the Wikipedia article on the film.

Nite Owl's costume design was modernized from the spandex of the comic to make him more intimidating.

BUT NITE OWL ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE INTIMIDATING! HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A MIDDLE-AGED NEBBISH!

*puts head in hands*

[sophistry]

UGH I KNOW, that is pretty emblematic of all the things I am terrified of this movie turning into. The rest, I am ready to frantically try and justify as being for the sake of the trailer, and hooking in newbie masses - the explanatory 'look, a glowing blue dude!', the amped-up WOOO SUPERHEROES FIGHTING AND BLOWING SHIT UP action scenes, etc.

(Am also hoping that Rorschach's line-delivery has been edited. I mean, he is supposed to have a creepy monotone voice, so there's that, and... well. I did some work experience in a radio station a few years ago, including an afternoon in the sound editing booth, and for ad spots, they literally cut out the pauses between words to shorten the delivery time and fit the recorded lines in the required space. So... yes.)

Also, that did not look to me so much like a rakish Tony Stark grin as an 'I am setting you on fire to burn and die horribly and loving it' grin.

[sophistry]

M...maybe they revamped Nite Owl's costume on account of: realism is a big part of Watchmen, and - the genres and different media being what they are - whilst a spandex costume works in the pages of a comic, it does not so much on-screen, and audiences need to believe that this guy did actually go out and fight crime with reasonable success for a number of years? Maybe?

*eyes Silk Spectre II*

[sophistry]

ALTHOUGH CAN I POINT OUT THAT THEY KEPT VEIDT'S PURPLE SUIT. THIS GIVES ME HOPE FOR OZYMANDIAS.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD LOVE IT! Loooooove iiiiiiit. Until proven otherwise. ;)

On the music... well, it sounded sort of like Smashing Pumpkins, and I hate hate HATE Smashing Pumpkins. Mostly Billy Corgan's voice, but that is another rant for another time. The point is that even though I am not into the music as music (if was not SP, it sounded enough like them to turn me off), I was heartened that they were using that rather than some hard-rock techno shit that would have said in no uncertain terms that this is a superhero smash movie. At least this left you with the feeling of ambiguity/sadness/fundamental screwed-up...ness... w/r/t the superheroes and what they were doing.

Also, many cool visuals. \o/