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Posted: **Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:30 pm**

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"?

Posted: **Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:20 pm**

Rolling Stone wrote: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.

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:21 pm**

Boy, when even Rolling Stone is skeptical...

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:49 pm**

domino harvey wrote: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.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:08 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:56 pm**

Antoine Doinel wrote:This is what will be assaulting your ears over the end credits.

That's pretty ugly.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:03 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:17 am**

Antoine Doinel wrote: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.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:20 am**

Antoine Doinel wrote: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.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:42 pm**

My hearing has just been raped.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:15 pm**

The New Frontiersman Flickr.

Posted: **Sun Feb 01, 2009 4:24 am**

The New York Times wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:15 pm**

Watchmen Skulk to the Screen

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:23 am**

Points awarded to Snyder for managing to say "raped"

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:01 pm**

The Keen Act & You.

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:29 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:22 am**

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.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:46 am**

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

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:59 am**

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.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:18 am**

ditto, very ditto

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:52 pm**

kaujot wrote:From Slashfilm:

Wrong, wrong, wrong. For so many reasons.

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

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:28 pm**

Goddammit.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:58 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:24 pm**

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

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