The All-Purpose Watchmen Thread *SPOILERS*

[TheRyno]

Hooray for Watchmen! I went to see The Dark Knight and saw trailers for both Watchmen and The Spirit. After seeing The Spirit trailer, I thought "Hey, that might be good." Then I saw Watchmen and thought "Well, fuck The Spirit."

[GoGo Yubari]

Oh god, The Spirit's trailer was like conversely one of the worst trailers for a comic book movie I've seen in forever. Why did Frank Miller turn The Octopus into Black Mugatu.

[TheRyno]

Actually, Samuel L. Jackson was about the only thing that perked me up about that trailer. At first, I was like "Hey, this looks cool" but within about 10 seconds I was like "Eh, it looks a little much. And why are they focusing on all these chicks I don't care about? Who plays The Spirit? Oh hey, Samuel L. Jackson, muthafucka!"

[punky]

Upon seeing the awesome trailer twice at The Dark Knight, I thought the movie looked pretty bad ass so I decided to rent the graphic novel from the library and I've through three chapters, it's already an awesome read.

Also, does anyone know what the name of the song in the trailer is? Cause it kicks ass.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

Also, does anyone know what the name of the song in the trailer is? Cause it kicks ass.

It's Smashing Pumpkins' "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning". It's from the single for "The End Is The Beginning Is The End".

[punky]

Ohhh, so that's what people were talking about with "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning".. I thought it was words on the trailer I missed. I'm retarded.

Thanks.

Edited July 22, 2008 by punky

[TheRyno]

Isn't the song used in the trailer a remix though? Because I remember when it came out before (on the soundtrack for one of the Batman movies, ironically) and it didn't sound the same. It's still pretty awesome, though.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

Isn't the song used in the trailer a remix though? Because I remember when it came out before (on the soundtrack for one of the Batman movies, ironically) and it didn't sound the same. It's still pretty awesome, though.

It's like I said, it's a different version from "The End Is The Beginning Is The End". It's called "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning" and it's from TEITBITE's single CD. (Thank you wiki)

[Chris the Human]

Christ, I was excited about this as soon as I saw Snyder was attached - but that trailer has me reaching near Dark Knight levels of hype. Can't wait to check this one out.

[SeanDMan]

I'd heard nothing about this movie until I saw the trailer and now can safely say it's the most anticipated film for me that will come out next year. (granted, it's the only one I know of)

[Chris the Human]

Aren't Wolverine and the new Star Trek movie due out next year?

[Hellfire]

Visually it looked pretty cool, but since I haven't ever read or even heard of Watchmen before, I'm not really that hyped about it. I might have to take a look at the novel though.

[SeanDMan]

Star Trek is due this Christmas, if I am not mistaken.

[TGC]

You are mistaken. It was pushed back to May two to three months ago. Abrams is not pleased.

[Kaney]

Just finished reading the book for the first time, and was thoroughly impressed, really enjoyed it. The trailer looked good, but now that I can put it into context, I'm gonna start being excited about this film too, pity it's so far away

In other news, Watchmen games are apparently on the horizon, to tie in with the film.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798935...yid=13&cs=1

[TheRyno]

I also heard that the director is filming the "Tales of the Black Freighter" side-story along with Watchmen, but instead of putting it into the movie, it's going to be released on DVD the same week that Watchmen comes out in theaters. Of course, I've also heard that it'll end up being bundled with the movie once it comes out on DVD too so it'll be interesting to see how many of the die-hards will pick it up, how many will wait and how many will outright ignore it, not knowing what it is.

[Pepsi]

I also heard that the director is filming the "Tales of the Black Freighter" side-story along with Watchmen, but instead of putting it into the movie, it's going to be released on DVD the same week that Watchmen comes out in theaters. Of course, I've also heard that it'll end up being bundled with the movie once it comes out on DVD too so it'll be interesting to see how many of the die-hards will pick it up, how many will wait and how many will outright ignore it, not knowing what it is.

It's going to be animated.

[Chris the Human]

It's going to be animated.

Yeah. Wiki said something about Snyder wanting to do it in the film live action, but it needing an extra $20 million budget

[Hajjhowe]

Trailer looked great, and I will probably be reading the book soon. Even though I am well aware of pretty much the whole plot, it's still something I want to check out.

[DMN in the House]

Read the book, was blown away, as I've said elsewhere. I can't quite decide who my favorite character is, but its probably Rorschach.

I'd love to have seen 'Black Freighter' added into the movie itself as short 'cut scenes', done with animation, but I guess its not to be.