As I just said, B, I'll judge that when I've caught its world premiere on basic cable. I'm not spending a dime on it. When it's officially released, I'll dig out my trade and begin reading. I know it won't disappoint me...
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Watchmen": Sex! Blood! Superheroes! Date : Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:02:23 -0000 From : "B. Smith" <daikaij...@yahoo.com> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I've heard that the movie is uber faithful until the end. Sometimes that can work (see Jaws) and sometimes it fails miserably. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Baxter" wrote: > > It'll make the studio its money back, easily. But there will be a LOT of disappointed (read p*ssed-off) fans coming out of the theaters. > > Martin (again waving the "Animation Now, Animation Forever" banner) > > > > > ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- > Subject : [scifinoir2] "Watchmen": Sex! Blood! Superheroes! > Date : Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:04 -0000 > From : "ravenadal" > To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20259927,00.html > > By Jeff Jensen > > They have come to glimpse the miracle. They have come to witness the > revolution. They have come for Watchmen  the allegedly unfilmable > superhero movie, the long-awaited adaptation of the comic book that > changed the face of comic books forever. On this warm July morning, > over 5,000 fans attending the annual geek pop summit known as > Comic-Con have assembled inside the San Diego Convention Center for a > first look. Many spent the night on the sidewalk. Some have come in > costumes  most modeled after Rorschach, a vigilante with an inkblot > mask and a pitiless brand of justice that makes Batman look like > Bambi. Behind the stage, indie-movie icon Kevin Smith, a.k.a. the Most > Famous Fanboy in the World, parks himself in front of a closed- circuit > TV, a happy grin on his bearded mug. ''You have to understand, I've > been waiting for this moment for years,'' says Smith. ''This is it, > man. This is the pinnacle. You have no idea how f---ing pumped I am.'' > > All this, for a violent, ironic superhero epic that doesn't like > superheroes in the first place. Directed by 300's Zack Snyder, > Watchmen presents a set of familiar superhero archetypes  and then > subverts them completely, turning them into criminals, jerks, > narcissists, megalomaniacs, and plain ol' whiny wusses. Rorschach > (Jackie Earl Haley) is like the Spirit...except he's a joyless, > hard-line misanthrope. The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is like > Captain America...but loyal only to sadistic thrills and a corrupt > worldview. Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) is part Batman, part Iron > Man...except he's also a schlubby, impotent coward. Ozymandias > (Matthew Goode) is the resident genius...who's built an empire on > superhero toys. (You see what we mean by irony.) Says Billy Crudup, > whose blue, naked Dr. Manhattan is an almighty Superman dangerously > detached from his own humanity: ''Watchmen is a kind of thrilling > thought experiment. What would people who dress up in costumes to > fight crime actually be like? Well, they'd probably be fetishists who > lived on the fringes of society. They'd all be a bunch of freaking > lunatics.'' > > Yet for all its self-awareness and cynicism, Watchmen isn't some > cheap-and-silly Scary Movie parody. Adapted faithfully, if not > completely, from the celebrated 1986 comic-book series, Snyder's film > is visually and intellectually ambitious, filled with heady > ruminations about savior figures, pop culture, and the politics of > fear. At a time when superhero stories are commonplace and our shaken > country is pinning its recovery on an idealistic new president, > Watchmen's director believes his movie can serve as a bracing blast of > healthy skepticism. ''Someone asked me if I thought that because > Barack Obama had been elected president, the movie was no longer > relevant. I said, 'Wow, that's a very optimistic view of the > future!''' says Snyder. ''The movie, like the comic, says, 'These > superhero stories you've been feasting on? What if we took them > seriously? What if we thought through the consequences? Where do they > get us?' That's the fun.'' > > NEXT PAGE: ''I felt like Watchmen was this very, very bad thing that I > shouldn't be reading, and if my mom caught me with it I'd be f---ing > doomed.'' > > http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20259927,00.html > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
