See it yet?
A cocking pile of arse, isn't it?
A cocking pile of arse, isn't it?
Watchmen trailer
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little sister/brother
Posts: 48 17 July, 2008 10:02 PM |
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Curufea |
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cousin
Posts: 65 17 July, 2008 11:03 PM |
Not yet no, being an Aussie. But I have seen some promo shots of the characters - they've done a bit of an X-Men job on them - black leather is the height
of superhero costume these days.
I just hope they keep the bad guys monologue the same. |
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Posts: 331 18 July, 2008 11:19 AM godmother |
Just checked it out on youtube, and it looked pretty good to me. Just about all of it was recognisable as straight out of the comic. What didn't you like?
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mother/father
Posts: 439 18 July, 2008 3:49 PM |
Works for me. Er... must admit, I'm hugely excited by this.
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mother/father
Posts: 280 18 July, 2008 10:06 PM |
I would heartily agree with the above two comments, with the exception that the shots of Dr Blue-Ass Manhattan individually vaporising Vietnamese guerillas
seems a little bit... forced. I'm not sure Jonny O even remembered that individual human beings existed, even at that stage.
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little sister/brother
Posts: 48 19 July, 2008 11:36 AM |
Put Billy Corgan singing over a load of pleb-dazzle CGI and all you get is a very expensive promo for a WWE Pay per
View.
Horrendous. |
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mother/father
Posts: 439 19 July, 2008 4:19 PM |
scary man23 wrote: Can't disagree with you at all, and your most aposite use of the phrase pleb-dazzle brings back shuddering memories of the evening they showed Con Air
twice in a row on TVGH4.
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little sister/brother
Posts: 48 19 July, 2008 7:59 PM |
War Arrow wrote: What's really is shocking how many TVGH words and phrases I've assimilated and now make up my everyday
vocabulary!
Probably less shocking but more depressing that I get to use them so frequently (I say "cow-people" almost every other day; Lifted, as you noticed, from the hard hitting vox-pop-doc, Dim, Multiplex Livestock Think On Your Behalf ) I understand where you're coming from. But V For Vendetta was the absolute final straw for me. Every step of the pre production publicity I was thinking "This is going to be shit". Every promo shot, every interview "This is going to be shit"I went, and guess what? I was shit. |
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cousin
Posts: 65 19 July, 2008 9:09 PM |
I've seen it - I like it.
As you are no doubt aware, trailers are outsourced to companies that specialise. They frequently ruin plots and show the best bits of a movie. This frequently conflicts with what the makers of the movie want - but not with what the backers of the movie want. They want bums on seats. All they care about is the opening weekend. Be that as it may - little of a movie can be told from a trailer. It is much like the cover of a book. |
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doloras |
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mother/father
Posts: 280 19 July, 2008 9:37 PM |
The movie version of V for Vendetta was pretty lame compared to the graphic novel (with the exception of that scene involving Stephen Fry and
"Yakety Sax"), but if it wasn't for that movie we wouldn't have Project Chanology, which Alan Moore has just confirmed
"gives him a warm glow".
I am getting the vibe that Watchmen is going to be much more like a shot-for-shot remake of the book, which has its own pitfalls but I am so going to see it. The Stacks - the site for
Faction Paradox fanfic and other fanworks
"Larry was with us in spirit" - Kate Orman
(for more of my messed up thoughts on culture, magick and revolutionary politics) |
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Posts: 331 19 July, 2008 9:55 PM godmother |
Pleb-dazzle CGI, perhaps, but it's just a trailer. If I wasn't familiar with the source material maybe it would be nothing but sound and fury, but for
me all those pretty images bring to mind the story surrounding them. It looks like they're being quite remarkably faithful to the original. Some
ill-advised juxtaposition in the trailer, though; the shot of Ozymandius verges on being a spoiler.
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mother/father
Posts: 280 20 July, 2008 1:40 AM |
The one serious criticism of the trailer I've seen is that Nite Owl looks far too fit. At the time of the story, Dan Dreiberg is supposed to be a bit pudgy
and past-it - more Adam West than Christian Bale.
The Stacks - the site for
Faction Paradox fanfic and other fanworks
"Larry was with us in spirit" - Kate Orman
(for more of my messed up thoughts on culture, magick and revolutionary politics) |
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Posts: 331 20 July, 2008 3:08 AM godmother |
He can't be _too_ past-it, though, considering how well he copes with the action throughout the book...
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mother/father
Posts: 439 20 July, 2008 8:13 AM |
scary man23 wrote: Er... I think you may have made a typo there.
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little sister/brother
Posts: 48 20 July, 2008 12:22 PM |
doloras wrote: Hmmm... Well it doesn't make the film any good, but I suppose it's a silver lining. Like, if we didn't have The Holocaust, we wouldn't have got to the Moon Shot. |
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little sister/brother
Posts: 48 20 July, 2008 12:31 PM |
War Arrow wrote: Thank you for noticing it as a typo! In his Screenburn column, Brooker said ITV1's Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway basically was Wanking For Coins in all but name.Dunno if you remember it. It was a sort of Happy Shopper version of Dragon's Den crossed with begging. |
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