CHUD’s Devin watches the “Watchmen” trailer
CHUD’s Devin watches the Watchmen trailer:
And it bears repeating: this is a trailer for us. This trailer speaks to the fanbase in a huge way. Your friends and neighbors will be damn impressed by what they’re seeing, but they’ll also be slightly baffled. They’ll want to know more - who is that blue guy? Who is flying that ship coming out of the water? Are they on Mars? Why is that guy getting thrown through a window? - so get ready to start lending out your book. And get ready to start drooling for whatever else they’re going to show at Comic Con - if this is what they’re giving us in the first trailer, I can’t wait to see what they have in store in San Diego.
As I mentioned earlier, the trailer plays before The Dark Knight, and will likely appear on-line shortly thereafter. Although I have some reservations following Zack Snyder’s previous film, 300, I can’t wait to see this.
Comments
Peter T Chattaway
July 14, 2008 10:01pmI saw the trailer this morning, and it is indeed awesome.
The Visitor
July 15, 2008 6:33pmi’m a huge fan of Alan Moore. Watchmen is one of my all-time fave books. having Zack Snyder helming the movie is a definite travesty. 300 is a racist, childish, vacuous film. sure, it looks nice, but good visuals don’t a good movie make.
and as far as what i’ve seen and read about the production of Watchmen, i can see that Zack and gang are more concerned with detail accuracy and visual aesthetics than story substance or retaining the essence of the human conflict that Moore presented. they seem to think that getting the film to look exactly like Dave Gibbons’ panels would be enough.
so i’m not going to touch the movie even with a 10-foot pole.
CTDeLude
July 18, 2008 8:51pmRacist? Hardly. So basically the actual battle as it happened was racist? Forgive me skepticism. Childish? Seems like a retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae done in a style that would conjure the images one might get when hearing the stories of the Greek mythology was told. I’m just gonna have to disagree with ya.
Anyways it certainly has a comic book feel that I’ve come to like in certain films and certainly lends itself well to the source material. Considering I loved 300 I’ve got no problem with Zack Snyder directing and feel he’ll do it justice.
The Visitor
July 19, 2008 9:15pmi seriously think 300 should not be regarded as an “historical movie.“ the actual battle in history did not happen in that manner, nor was it just 300 Spartans. i don’t get what you mean, because on the one hand, you say the actual battle was like it is in the movie, but on the other, you say it’s all “mythologised.“
the racist and fascist overtones of 300 are hardly deniable. in Berlin, i was shaking my head the whole time and the lady critic next to me was giggling so much. when that elephant came out, she just burst out laughing. during the press conference later, Zack Snyder was asked about everything including the inappropriateness of having such a film at a time when there was so much tension between the US and Iran. of course, Snyder brushed it all off like a noisy, cocky, expletive-spewing brat.
but there was one guy who stood up and said “i don’t know what the others are complaining about, but i love your film, man! it was awesome! kick ass!“
The Visitor
July 19, 2008 9:31pmnow, what this shows is that movies can be seen as mere entertainment, or as something much more. there is nothing wrong about both, i like my movies entertaining too, as much as the next guy. The Dark Knight proved that a movie can be entertaining at a basic level and also thought-provoking (in a good way) at the same time.
but in the case of 300, it’s not only a terrible film (boring, paper-thin, pointless) that looks good, but consider also this quote from George Orwell:
“The first thing we demand of a wall is that it shall stand up. If it stands up, it is a good wall, and the question of what purpose it serves is separable from that. And yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp. In the same way it should be possible to say, ‘This is a good book or a good picture, and it ought to be burned by the public hangman.‘ Unless one can say that, at least in imagination, one is shirking the implications of the fact that an artist is also a citizen and a human being.“
CTDeLude
July 21, 2008 11:47amFirst, yea the battle wasn’t EXACTLY like that. Of course not, But to say the spirit of the historical even wasn’t the same would be denial. Heck, Victor Davis Hanson, one of the foremost writers about that time in history gave it an endorsement (he worked on it) despite the fact he was given chances to work on Troy and Alexander. You can see his comments here: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzJmOTNmYmNlYjNmMDIyZjNmMWRjOGExOGNjYzBjMzU=
Secondly you’re going to have to point out the racist and fascist overtones for me because from everything I recall of the actual event the movie gets the overall story pretty much right. Persian Empire is coming to take over the Greek peoples. 300 Spartans (and the left out several thousand Thespians and other Greek allies) held off the invading army for a period of time, inflicting disproportionate casualties to the invading force and enable the Greeks to get their crap together to face the remaining forces. was the Persian army that crazy looking? Not likely but then if we’re telling the story like the Greek people of the time they would probably add something fanciful to the mix.
Our biggest failing has always been to judge history through our own eyes, not realizing that our values, morals, ways of thinking are NOT theirs. Can we declare somethings evil? Of course. But are you willing to tell me that the defense of the brith of Western Civilization is a bad thing? Help me out here (if you’re even still reading this considering the post is getting old).