Watchmen trailer

I read the book and thought it was brilliant.

I'm not too sure it will work as a film... but from what I have seen it doesn't look ruined quite yet. I don't think it's the sort of film that wants to be stylised in the way 300 or Sin City were.
 
With a different ending I can't see how it's gonna make much sense without changing a lot of other things too.
 
Woody__ said:
With a different ending I can't see how it's gonna make much sense without changing a lot of other things too.
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There is only a very slight change in the ending. Everything is the same apart from the absense of one 'thing'. I don't think it'll spoil anything.
 
Although the trailers look amazing, the visuals and characters look excellent and the atmosphere and mood are spot on, I'm still resigned to this film sucking when it comes out.
 
Shamikebab said:
they're changing the ending?? :confused:
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Yes, in terms of what literally happens in the first pages in the last chapter of the book. No in terms of what the effects are and what the plot is.

One 'thing' is missing. I can't see it being a big deal.

I hear it's supposed to be three hours long. Maybe that is a bit ambitious.
 
I'm keeping an open minded on this one. On the one hand - I really respect Zack Synder, I think he really is "visionary" as quoted in the trailer. His cinematography in Dawn of the Dead and 300 were excellent, in terms of visual, timing and flow etc.

300 might have been a "mistake" in that the comic wasn't really suited for a film - the non-linear narrative and structure of the story was perfect as a comic or a short tv-series.

However, I think Zack respected the differences in the mediums, and instead of doing what Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City (copying things panel by panel, which I think further cemented him in my mind as a weak and mere "cult" director, and I thought the film flowed really poorly and just felt tacky), Zack actually rewrote 300 as a film, even if it meant changing the essence of the story.

In that I think it was more "inspired" by 300 than an "adaptation" of 300.


With Watchmen however, Zack's actually adapting the graphics novel. I trust that he has an understanding of the differences in the medium, and I think he will make it "work" at least as a "film". Problem is of course, it would lose many aspect of the graphics novel, but I think Zack would actually create something "new" for the film by taking advantage of the motion picture medium.

Undoubtfully many fanboys of Watchmen would slate it regardless for not being true to the original. As for me, I'm more interested in whether it'll actually be a good film, rather than religiously comparing it to the novel. However I do expect Zack Synder to maintain the essence of the Watchmen's story at least.

The change of the ending does confuse me hugely as well. I don't think it's a "slight" change at all considering the whole "point" of the plot... We'll have to see!
 
Just started reading Watchmen; the first graphic novel I've ever read. Am enjoying it thus far.
 
Nitefly said:
There is only a very slight change in the ending. Everything is the same apart from the absense of one 'thing'. I don't think it'll spoil anything.
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Someone on the daily dischord forums posted this. It's far better than I could put it.


WARNING!! HEREIN LIE SPOLIERS!!!






"Dave Gibbons has been talking at Comic-Con and confirmed the squidless ending. Veidt sets a bunch of atomic bombs off around the world and convinces the world it was Manhattan, who leaves Earth.


This ****** me off for two reasons:

The whole point of the squid was that it's purporting to be alien, and it's the 'other-ness' of the thing which unites all the warring factions of Earth against a common enemy. If the cataclysm is just a bunch of nuclear explosions i.e. current human technology, then it's only going to result in more hatred because countries are just going to blame each other. And even when the world discovers it was Doc Manhattan, he's the Americans' ultimate weapon so it would just further the existing conflicts between east and west. No peace would result from that and Manhattan would see that, and refuse to go along with it.

The point of The Black Freighter comic being inside the novel was that the squid was embedded with a 'psychic bomb' of hateful, disturbing imagery that was imagined by the same 'kidnapped' artist who produced TBF. If you take out the squid, there's no point in keeping The Black Freighter in the story (or even as a DVD extra), as the horrific imagery and concepts serve to illustrate nothing.

The whole point about Watchmen is that each facet of the story compliments and aligns with the others until everything culminates in an epic climax; if you change one bit you may as well throw out all the rest too."
 
That is a bigger change than I thought.

I can't really complain about the loss of The Black Freighter, it wouldn't fit in with the film, it just wouldn't translate.
 
TBF is being done though. It's getting released along with Under the Hood on DVD around the time of the movies release. Which is just weird now cause of the aforementioned change.
 
Cannot believe they removed the squid.

I knew this movie was going to end up sucking. I mean lets be honest DC movies tend to suck.
 
PoD said:
Cannot believe they removed the squid.

I knew this movie was going to end up sucking. I mean lets be honest DC movies tend to suck.
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You are kidding me? That's like a remake of Planet of the Apes removing the statue of liberty.

Retards!

Rich
 
Yeah. It's gone.

The squid splits a lot of fans. Some think it's silly, others genius. I'm in the latter camp, so I'm gutted about it.
 
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