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06 Mar 2008 10:57 #3861 by Michael Barnes
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I just about peed myself. The Comedian is _perfect_.

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06 Mar 2008 12:14 #3864 by benny lava
Hurm. You're right about the comedian, but Ozymandias is...not so perfect. Granted, his costume in the comics is a bit fruity, but I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't Hayden Christiansen in his Darth Vader get-up.

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06 Mar 2008 12:49 #3865 by Michael Barnes
I think Oz is probably the weakest, but looking at it I totally get where the costume designer is coming from. It makes perfect sense to me that he would design his outfit after Grecian sculpture, which is what it looks like.

I was most worried about how Night Owl would turn out...but I think he looks fantastic. You can tell that he's a heavier guy, he's got the paunch and all.

The Comedian is just a knockout though...it's like the Gibbons art came to life. I saw it and I couldn't believe it at first. I thought maybe it was some kind of production artwork or something.

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06 Mar 2008 13:02 #3867 by Shellhead
A few years back, I was thinking that Bruce Campbell would be the perfect Comedian, but you're right, this guy definitely looks the part. I await this movie with a mixture of dread and anticipation. It's been less than ten years since I first got to see some superhero movies that lived up to my full expectations (Spider-Man, Hellboy, Sin City), and there have still been some extraordinarily crappy ones (Superman Returns, the Ang Lee take on the Hulk). So far, the track record with Alan Moore's work has not been great. The results are reasonably watchable movies, but so much of the greatness of his writing gets lost in the process.

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06 Mar 2008 16:31 #3879 by Mr Skeletor
They look fucking awesome.
Fuck Bruce Campbell, we don't need a giant ham in the film.

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06 Mar 2008 16:39 #3880 by Michael Barnes
When they released that promo image, which was completely new Dave Gibbons artwork, I knew that Snyder and Co. meant business. When I heard that they had all intention of shooting TALES FROM THE BLACK FREIGHTER even if only for DVD exhibition, I knew they were really dedicated to doing WATCHMEN justice. When I saw these pictures, I realized that there really is going to be a WATCHMEN film and it stands to be to the superhero film what the book is to superhero comics.

The property is in good hands- Snyder's track record of doing an "in spirit" remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD without sullying the memory of the original and his almost panel-for-panel adaptation of 300 lead me to think that the main things the WATCHMEN film needed- heart, passion, fidelity, and understanding- are all there.

I really, really hope internet fanboy bullshit doesn't sink it...I'm already seeing snippy little internet bitches blogging away or whatever about how "shitty" they look and throwing in their completely baseless, worthless two cents on the costume designs. It really makes me wonder what would have happened to STAR WARS or any other genre film before the internet...would they have been run down by these fuckers?

I mean, I'm a big enough fan of WATCHMEN to have a tattoo on my forearm so the whole world can see it...and I think that everything I've seen and heard so far is right on the money as to where the film needs to be headed.

Of course, if it did suck I'd have to spend the rest of my life explaining how I had the tattoo 10 years before the movie came out!

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06 Mar 2008 16:45 #3881 by benny lava
I am really, really hoping this film reverses the trend of sucktastic movies based on Alan Moore creations (V for Vendetta, LXG, etc.). Watchmen was/is such a seminal work; it deserves greatness.

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06 Mar 2008 19:37 #3882 by Mr Skeletor
What was wrong with Vendetta?
I thought the movie was in some ways better than the book.

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06 Mar 2008 20:05 #3884 by benny lava
Mr Skeletor wrote:

What was wrong with Vendetta?
I thought the movie was in some ways better than the book.


I felt like the movie was a very ham-handed political statement by the Wachowski brothers. They took Alan Moore's story and repurposed it as anti-Bush propaganda. But hey, that's just my take on it.

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06 Mar 2008 21:26 #3885 by Mr Skeletor
Well the book was hardly suttle, it was pretty much a ham handed swipe at Thatcher.
At least they ditched the Chancelor falling in love with his computer angle.

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07 Mar 2008 06:02 #3888 by billyz
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I've been so out of the loop for the past while that I didn't even realize this was being made. Everything looks great. You know, for me, it's going to be more important what the comedian sounds like than what he looks like. I have ot be able to here that undertone of "I know something you don't know," in his voice.

I think Oz looks just fine. just like the comedian-- ist's all going to be in the delivery. the fact tyat they're actually filming TALES FROM THE BLACK FREIGHTER is fucking awesome! Awww man! I can't wait to seee this shit!

Oh, for the record, V for Vendetta was good stuff. Nothing groundbreaking, but a good movie.

Every time I think of comics being turnd into movies Ghost World pops into my head... god, I love that fucking flick.

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07 Mar 2008 12:59 #3896 by PseudoIntellectual
Mr Skeletor wrote:

Well the book was hardly suttle, it was pretty much a ham handed swipe at Thatcher.
At least they ditched the Chancelor falling in love with his computer angle.


Has anyone read anything by Moore from that period that wasn't a ham-fisted swipe at Thatcher? I liked the movie V more than the book, and I didn't much care for either. The book was too dated, the movie too full of itself. I read the book after seeing the movie, maybe I wrecked it by doing it that way.

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