Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)

[Mr Sausage]

Speaking of sensationalism, notice how the piece starts off with "The rape that's central to Watchmen's complex character dynamics," and then somewhere near the end downgrades it to: "[Hooded Justice] comes in and interrupts the attempted rape"?

[dx23]

The motion comics previously only available on iTunes are coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 3rd.

[Antoine Doinel]

In the first five minutes of next March's movie adaptation of the 1980s graphic novel Watchmen, a Matrix-style fight sequence breaks out, complete with two superdudes punching through walls with their bare hands. Bam! Pow! Awesome! Except that it feels off-key, as if Michael Bay had directed Moby Dick and kicked it off with a slow-mo man-on-whale duel.

[domino harvey]

Boy, when even Rolling Stone is skeptical...

[dx23]

Boy, when even Rolling Stone is skeptical...

I have stopped reading all the news that have been coming about this movie. Every time I read something, it makes me madder at Hack Snyder and WB/DC comics for letting this idiot at the helm.

[Antoine Doinel]

This is what will be assaulting your ears over the end credits.

[Mr Sausage]

This is what will be assaulting your ears over the end credits.

That's pretty ugly.

[swo17]

Fortunately, I will not have to be subjected to that, as I was planning on leaving right after the rape scene.

[Kirkinson]

This is what will be assaulting your ears over the end credits.

If I had read nothing else about this movie, that alone would tell me everything I need to know.

[chaddoli]

This is what will be assaulting your ears over the end credits.

That is a musical abortion. The fact that Zach Snyder is a MCR fan means he should be barred from any participation in any art form whatsoever.

[dx23]

My hearing has just been raped.

[Antoine Doinel]

The New Frontiersman Flickr.

[Antoine Doinel]

Mr. Snyder’s office on the Warner Brothers lot is decorated with a lion-skin rug, a cast of a saber-toothed tiger skull and a candle shaped like a human cranium.

[jbeall]

Watchmen Skulk to the Screen

[domino harvey]

Points awarded to Snyder for managing to say "raped"

[dx23]

The Keen Act & You.

[Murdoch]

I find all these virals far more interesting than the film, every time I hear about the movie (i.e. the MCR song) I roll my eyes, but then I see the fake history they're putting all over the web and my interest is piqued, so I'm on the fence about this.

[kaujot]

From Slashfilm:

A thrilling hand to hand fight scene begins between Blake and his assailant. Both men are incredibly strong, with walls being punched out, knives being thrown and caught, and characters being thrown through tables. This is what 300’s action scenes would look like if it was between two guys, and done using only hand-to-hand combat. The kinetic visuals of that film are replicated, where the action rapidly alternates between fast-motion and slow-motion.

[domino harvey]

The worst/best part is that whoever penned the entire write-up thought that what they were describing wasn't horrible

[jbeall]

What domino said.
I generally feel like one of the less cinematically sophisticated members of this forum, but that slashfilm review makes me feel like offering the poor guy some rudimentary lessons. Of course, he's probably 14 years old.

[knives]

ditto, very ditto

[Napoleon]

From Slashfilm:

Wrong, wrong, wrong. For so many reasons.

Any lingering doubts that they might pull this off have evaporated.

[Murdoch]

Goddammit.

[Mr Sausage]

Snyder does have a questionable sensibility. Doesn't make any sense to add posturing to a work like Watchmen. It made sense for 300, but Watchmen seems entirely wrong for the kind of posturing that would earn the lable "badass."

Although I wasn't going to see this anyway, so it's all idle typing on my part.

[domino harvey]

I was sort of leaning towards seeing it just so I'd be able to comment on it down the road, as it seems like one of those movies that people are going to try and talk to you about, but that Slash preview slow-mo switched my interest switch off