The WATCHMEN Revealed!

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1. Kurt Halfyard 03/06/2008 @ 6:10am

   I dunno.  I’m curiously not compelled or excited by these designs in any way.  They look like leftovers from the X-Men franchise.

2. sarkoffagus 03/06/2008 @ 6:33am

   I think Rorschach looks good, but I think you’d really have to try to screw that one up. Sadly, though, I agree with Kurt about the rest of them.

3. David Bigler 03/06/2008 @ 7:39am

   I am incredibly impressed by the Watchmen pictures - this is going to be awesome!!! Thanks for the tip - it was a present surprise this morning.

4. anton_es 03/06/2008 @ 7:44am

   after the utter craptastic, emotionally empty and void-of-any-acting 300 (!) I don’t expect anything from Snyder than some slow-motion induced sickness, blood, guts, silicon breasts and crotch-shots en masse for this movie. politically subversive, demanding and challenging ? certainly NOT.
   John Millius is the new Lincoln against Zack Snyder.
   Give it to Shinya Tsukamoto or Fincher or make it a japanese underground director   colloberation or episode movie. Or give Snyder a few good criterion movies with commentary to watch so he at last can grasp what movies are about apart from deeply racist and xenophobic commentary disguised as entertainment.
   (and I’m not bashing the comic by Miller here)

5. Ard Vijn 03/06/2008 @ 8:25am

   If they don’t give that Owl-costume different ears, whoever owns the Batman franchise is going to sue…

   ...oh, wait.

6. Novastar 03/06/2008 @ 8:32am

   I hope he can wash the bad memory that is ‘300’ out of my memory.An insulut to the movieviewer exept if you are under 15.

   Yesterday i was watching ‘This is England’ with a buddy of mine and afterwards i said:“What a great movie” and he replied ” yeah thank god that Gerard butler isn’t acting in this one,or else he would have monopolised the This is England line”

7. Pusheye 03/06/2008 @ 9:47am

   These pictures look like they come from the set of Mystery Men or Batman Forever.  Snyder already royally screwed up one adaptation of a great comic, why not one more?

8. BlackIrishBastard 03/06/2008 @ 10:13am

   Oh man, there are a lot of hardcore Watchmen fans out there. No matter how good this movie is, capturing the essence of the original comic series maybe difficult.

   This is considered the bible to some, hehe:)

9. Mike 03/06/2008 @ 11:35am

   I can’t wait either…for another shit movie version of an Alan Moore book.

10. Swarez 03/06/2008 @ 12:54pm

    I think this looks really good actually. The Owl should have been a little more chubby though.

11. Momo the Cow 03/06/2008 @ 1:08pm

    I’m with Pusheye.
    I liked them at first, but on reflection I like them less and less. Rorschach looks good, I guess because he’s a replica of the comic. Same for Comedian.

    Yet….. everyone else looks like they’re from Batman Forever, including the nipples.
    Isn’t The Watchmen specifically about the era of comic book superheroes where it really was men in bright tights? Wasn’t it about the dark undercurrents beneath those pastel coloured costumes, and the misplaced nostalgia upon an era thought more innocent than it was?
    These are costumes from modern superhero movies, ones made for audiences that need black armoured superheros and for whom the superheroes of old look quaint and naive…. But wasn’t the whole point of The Watchmen to use the paradigm of old-school superhero comics, down to the artwork and character design, to tell a very modern tale?
    Watching pre-WWII superheroes deal with Cold-War-era issues, Vietnam and Nuclear Apocalypse, was the contrast that helped make the balance of themes so compelling…. something that’s lost when you design these guys to look like Ben Affleck’s Daredevil.

12. Momo the Cow 03/06/2008 @ 1:11pm

    Having said all that, I think they might have lucked out with the casting for Nite Owl and Rorschach.

    ... might have

13. sarkoffagus 03/06/2008 @ 2:43pm

    Let me just say that, in reference to Momo’s nipple reference, I’m all for nipples on the costumes. In fact, I think the costumes should go one step further and have an impression of the pubic regions for both the men and women. Not only would that be classy, but it would just look kick ass. The studio can use that idea if they want; I won’t demand royalties.

14. Ichi-The-Killer 03/06/2008 @ 4:45pm

    The costume designs make it look like a Joel Schumacher Batman movie sequel.

15. Momo the Cow 03/07/2008 @ 12:34am

    There’s a question that begs a moment…. should crimefighting body armour feature pubic hair?

16. Swarez 03/07/2008 @ 2:46am

    “Yet….. everyone else looks like they’re from Batman Forever, including the nipples.
    Isn’t The Watchmen specifically about the era of comic book superheroes where it really was men in bright tights?”

    Isn’t the movie taking those ideas and transplanting them in the cinema world? By designing the costumes to look bright and Schumacherish? Isn’t that the same idea? The comic was a parody of older, more cheerful comic heroes by putting them in this dark world and of course they should modify that idea by using it on movies that featured nippled dark crusaders, bright colors and loud music. Of course the film shouldn’t parody comic books but comic book movies.
    But it’s still a loooong way to go until we know for sure.

17. Ard Vijn 03/07/2008 @ 6:16am

    Agree with Swarez: it’s an adaptation and we will have to wait and see, but…

    I mean, in general I did like 300 a lot but it got quite bad whenever they strayed from the source material. So I’m cautious when this particular production team gets adventurous and experimental.

18. Momo the Cow 03/07/2008 @ 9:12am

    re: Swarez

    hunh… good point, I didn’t think of that.
    Still though, I wouldn’t call Schumacher’s Batman a superhero of a simpler (or more simplistic) era.
    Adam West’s Batman might be a more suitably analogous comic/movie starting point for the kind of adaptation you’re talking about. Schumacher’s Batman evolved more from a postponed puberty than a desire to see the world in pastel binary.

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