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Title: Watchmen looks sooooooo good!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 12:40:27 AM: http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/2008/03/one_year_to_go_1.html

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Title: Re: Watchmen looks sooooooo good!
Post by: Himu on March 07, 2008, 12:41:08 AM: OH

MY

FUCKING

GOD
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Post by: Raban on March 07, 2008, 01:02:39 AM: Don't have too much faith, apparently the draft of the script being used scraps the original ending for some happy-go-lucky Hollywood bullshit.

EDIT: Although I will admit, those costumes are fucking ace.
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Post by: MrAngryFace on March 07, 2008, 01:04:11 AM: I dunno, there's enuff EDGY COOL endings out there to make EDGY COOL the new Hollywood ending
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Post by: Raban on March 07, 2008, 01:06:45 AM: Yeah but IIRC David Hayter is penning the script, and he's a dumb bitch.
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Post by: TVC15 on March 07, 2008, 01:07:25 AM: They are not using Hayter's script.
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Post by: Smooth Groove on March 07, 2008, 01:10:55 AM: Quote from: Blanka Face on March 07, 2008, 01:04:11 AM
I dunno, there's enuff EDGY COOL endings out there to make EDGY COOL the new Hollywood ending
Yup, I failed to see what was so unconventional about the ending of No Country for Old Men. It was exactly the type of ending that one would expect from an artsy film.
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Post by: Ichirou on March 07, 2008, 02:09:06 AM: Eh, I heard they're using a script that keeps the movie in the '80s with Nixon as president and is extremely faithful to the graphic novel.

That said, I'm disappointed Nite Owl isn't a tubby fuck like in the comics.
Title: Re: Watchmen looks sooooooo good!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 02:20:48 AM: Quote from: Ichi on March 07, 2008, 02:09:06 AM
That said, I'm disappointed Nite Owl isn't a tubby fuck like in the comics.

you and demi both
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Post by: Ichirou on March 07, 2008, 02:24:01 AM: For entirely different reasons, however!

I just think it better represents the fact that he's a has-been and draws better parallels to the Adam West Batman, which the character is partly supposed to mock.
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Post by: Cormacaroni on March 07, 2008, 02:24:17 AM: Quote from: Ichi on March 07, 2008, 02:09:06 AM
Eh, I heard they're using a script that keeps the movie in the '80s with Nixon as president and is extremely faithful to the graphic novel.

That said, I'm disappointed Nite Owl isn't a tubby fuck like in the comics.

I bet he still is. Before the training montage.
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Post by: Ichirou on March 07, 2008, 02:25:15 AM: It's gonna have a montage?! :hyper
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Post by: Smooth Groove on March 07, 2008, 02:26:20 AM: I hope they all get superpowers. It would make the move a lot more exciting.
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Post by: Mandark on March 07, 2008, 02:29:01 AM: What's the name of this grainy/shiny style of photography?

Whatever it is, tell it that I hate it.
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Post by: Cormacaroni on March 07, 2008, 02:32:58 AM: Quote from: Ichi on March 07, 2008, 02:25:15 AM
It's gonna have a montage?! :hyper

fuck yeah :rock
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 07, 2008, 03:05:29 AM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on March 07, 2008, 02:26:20 AM
I hope they all get superpowers. It would make the move a lot more exciting.

:lol

:maf

I just hope it doesn't suck. And Nixon's in it.
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Post by: bagofeyes on March 07, 2008, 03:09:09 AM: Any scientologists involved? You might get an i am legend-like redone ending
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Post by: Eric P on March 07, 2008, 08:38:37 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 07, 2008, 12:40:27 AM
http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/2008/03/one_year_to_go_1.html

:american
poor alan moore
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Post by: Eric P on March 07, 2008, 09:26:22 AM: speaking of the greatest writer of comics to ever live ever, the av club has a primer on alan moore

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/primer_alan_moore
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Post by: Robo on March 07, 2008, 07:55:31 PM: I will be disappointed if a single second of this film is regular speed You're better than that, Zack Snyder.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:11:10 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 07, 2008, 07:43:49 PM
Where is Manhattan? And Nite Owl's tubb? And why does Ozymandia kinda suck? And where is my meta-textual pirate comic? Zack Snyder sucks, Alan Moore rules, except all the whiny bitching.

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Comedian looks awesome.
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I'd imagine they're saving Manhattan until they figure out how to handle his nudity.
Ozymandias is kinda poncey looking.
Black Freighter comic still features heavily in the movie.
Alan Moore knows ths score!
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:18:39 PM: yes, in fact, Snyder is filming most of the Black Freighter sequences for the extended DVD cut

in the theatrical cut, there'll be references to it, but probably not as much Cutaways
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:34:15 PM: they are being suuuuper faithful. I am cautiously optimistic, which I NEVER thought I'd be about a Watchmen movie.

honestly, what I'd like a Watchmen to be is a deconstruction of the cinematic superhero movie, as much as the comic is a deconstruction of the written superhero comic. I think the superhero genre is crowded enough that it's ready for that sort of deconstruction.

I also want them to keep the ending--by which I mean, the entire last chapter. (SCREW YOU HAYTER)

But...well, it could certainly be a lot worse. Did you see the earlier production stills of the Gunga Diner and the Treasure Island comic shop?

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What do you want? Let's start with: What Morrison have you read? ;)
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Title: Re: Watchmen looks sooooooo good!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:36:56 PM: okay, go read Animal Man 1-26. that was easy.

Invisibles is his sprawling magnum opus, and We3 is his tightest, most emotional piece, but Animal Man is his overall best work.

let me know some other touchstones you want more like.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:38:22 PM: btw, I have bought more copies of We3 for friends than I can fairly state. It's like, $11 after discount on amazon.com. $11 to CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:39:23 PM: previous watchmen updates:

Incredible looking NYC backlot
http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/2007/11/the_backlot.html

Roscharch fucking shit up
http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/2008/02/thats_a_wrap.html

It all looks good! I...I'm not sure what this means.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:41:29 PM: not only did it make me cry, it like, STILL makes me cry if I go back and reread it. it's emotional napalm.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 07, 2008, 08:43:01 PM: :'(
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Post by: Cormacaroni on March 07, 2008, 08:49:32 PM: this thread reminds me - john tv has had my copy for about 3 years now! still hasn't read it, the homo
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 07, 2008, 11:11:48 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 07, 2008, 08:36:56 PM
okay, go read Animal Man 1-26. that was easy.

Invisibles is his sprawling magnum opus, and We3 is his tightest, most emotional piece, but Animal Man is his overall best work.

let me know some other touchstones you want more like.

How does The Filth stack up to The Invisibles? That's the only one of Morrison's I've read, but I want to check out The Invisibles.
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Post by: Eric P on March 08, 2008, 12:42:46 AM: i'm a total morrison homo.

but i didn't like the filth

speaking of, does anyone need The New Adventures of Hitler? I managed to snag a copy from demonoid before it went under
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Post by: Human Snorenado on March 08, 2008, 12:49:58 AM: Meh, it will probably look pretty but that's about all I'm gonna like about it I bet. Zack Snyder = epic fail. I still maintain that the best way to bring this to life would have been a 12 episode HBO series, with Zack Snyder not involved whatsoever.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 08, 2008, 02:17:28 AM: They look like X-Men rejects