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From the open letter wrote:After 9/11 some felt the story's themes were too close to reality ever to be palatable to a mainstream audience.

moviscop wrote: But even the trailers are made up of 90% slow motion. I'm really starting to doubt the entire project.

Antoine Doinel wrote:producer Lloyd Levin issues an embarrassing open letter

Jeff wrote: I hope that Fox is granted possession of the negative, then burns it in a ceremony televised on that video game network.

moviscop wrote:A friend of mine noted how cool the Glass intro was on the trailer and I thought the Muse song was cool in it as well.

But even the trailers are made up of 90% slow motion. I'm really starting to doubt the entire project.

dr. calamari wrote:The slow motion is probably to add to the running time...as everyone here probably knows, there wasn't really enough in the source material for a feature length movie.

dr. calamari wrote:

moviscop wrote:A friend of mine noted how cool the Glass intro was on the trailer and I thought the Muse song was cool in it as well.

But even the trailers are made up of 90% slow motion. I'm really starting to doubt the entire project.

The slow motion is probably to add to the running time...as everyone here probably knows, there wasn't really enough in the source material for a feature length movie. They'll probably have to film and splice in all that pirate-comic crap just to fill it out to a full 2 hours. Maybe they'll run a newsreel and a cartoon before the feature, so people will feel like they're getting their money's worth.

solaris72 wrote:

exte wrote:The new trailer looks fantastic. I don't know a thing about the source material, but hopefully the film delivers.

domino harvey wrote:And the world lives to see another Zack Snyder film

swo17 wrote:Yes, but is that really living?

IO9 wrote:"Worry not, fans of brutal superheroes: The rape that's central to Watchmen's complex character dynamics will be featured in the movie without any censorship. Maybe just the opposite, in fact.

Talking to MTV, Jeffrey Dean Morgan - who plays the Comedian in Zack Snyder's movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic comic - said that the scene where his character is discovered raping Carla Gugino's Silk Spectre wasn't an easy one to shoot:

It was a three-day process shooting that particular scene, and it was hard... It was three of the hardest days of filming I have ever had to do. It was really very violent.

Violent, you may be thinking? Wasn't it kind of... understated in the original comic? Well, yes, but certain liberties have to be taken in adapting things into movies, Morgan explained:

When you’re looking at the comic book you only get a couple panels so there is a lot of stuff there that needs to be filled in, so we fill in the blanks there between three and four panels, and it turns out to be one hell of a violent scene. And it’s all intact, [Hooded Justice] comes in and interrupts the attempted rape — it’s all there. We stayed very loyal to it, and I haven’t actually seen the scene yet, but I did see a piece of playback when we were filming it and it’s a lot... It’s rated ‘R’ for a reason.

Call it a suspicious nature, but the glibness of "it's rated 'R' for a reason" (or, for that matter, Gugino calling the scene "pretty crazy" last year) concerns me for some reason. Am I really the only one who's worried that "filling in" things between panels is going to equal a glossy, sensationalistic gratuitous scene in this case..?"

When you’re looking at the comic book you only get a couple panels so there is a lot of stuff there that needs to be filled in, so we fill in the blanks there between three and four panels, and it turns out to be one hell of a violent scene.