Watchmen Featurette with LOADS of NEW Footage!

Watchmen will definately release on time and with lots of hype. i wouldn't rule out this whole legal fiasco as just a stunt to build up the movie and get people to want to see it even more. when someone says 'no' you can't have it, it makes you want it even more. right? their marketing strategy for this movie is brilliant and I bet it will help them surpass TDK. Can't wait!

WILL ALAN MOORE WATCH THIS ONE? EVEN THE ARTIST OF HIS BOOK SAID IT WAS REALLY GOOD, I HEARD RUMORS MOORE PUT A HEXON IT TO KEEP IT FROM COMING OUT. A LIVE ACTION FILM OF GOOD LITERATURE DOESNT ALWAYS COME OUT EXACTLLY THE WAY IT IS IN A BOOK, BUT IF IT COMES CLOSE,MR MOORE, WATCH IT.

Have to agree with several of the above posts. The acting does not look like it is going to really capture the characters from the graphic novel. Also, for me, Manhattan's voice just isn't bad ass enough. I was hoping they'd do something like what they did with Silver Surfer and do a voice over with a good voice. Eh, it's acceptable, I guess. Maybe not so much from the visionary director of 300. Furthermore, there is no squid ending, and I will hope it fails until it is used. At this point in time though from seeing the movie clips, will the squid ending be amazing enough to save this movie? Just 'cause the script in the movie is very similar to the dialogue in the comic doesn't mean the acting is good... we'll see.


Lastly, no squid.

F*ck that! Acting schmacting! This sh*t looks f*cking amazing! Remember Wtchmen the graphic novel was a graphic novel, pages with pictures done by 2 dudes. Watchmen the movie, is a movie, moving pictures with "real" people done by many dudes. Two different mediums, so I'm sick of that it wasn't like the comic crap... duh. Different brains and outfits! Based means based off of, not photo copied pages of the novel slowly displaying on the screen. U want that sh*t then download the motion comic like I did. This looks like a kick ass movie in general, reguardless of if "they leave the word AND out of a sentence but it was in the graphic novel". Or the actors look corny, for christs sake, it's a dude in an owl suit, is it possible even if Bobby Deniro did it that it could not look corny? I'm seein this sh*t, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be entertaining as hell u god damn perfectionists!!! Lol!

"Watchmen is this massive spectacle like you've never seen before", damn that Snyder really has to take his head out of his ass. He says the story is really simple? Then I guess he didn't understand all the underlying issues. I'm beggining to think I hate Snyder, every time I hear his comments I just want to kick his ass, when he says.. "everyone thought it was the unfilmable graphic novel" he's just too damn annoying.

As for the Squid, I have said it before... so far a machine that Doc Manhattan and Veidt created, really just destroys the whole point. Veidt would never allow his plan to save the world to be shared, that is why he kills everyone involved, Doc Manhattan could practically stop the machine from working one nanosecond before it hits. The comedian swims to an island where he finds some weird shit (physicists, geneticists, artists, musicians, writers), he investigates and finds out about the plan, if it is just a machine he wouldn't find it as odd and he would probably report it to the government. You say that it is anticlimatic? the squid sets the whole story in motion (the absurdity of it all is what breaks the comedian), remove the squid..... and well, there better be a really good and tight explanation of how a squidless story can work. Besides Snyder said he removed the squid to have more character development? well if he wasn't addicted to the slo-mo button maybe he could have fit in the squid, I said it before I don't want any "character development" in slo-mo.

Now for what I see from this featurette, Snyder should really STFU, Doc Manhattan seems on some scenes as if made of Play-doh and in some others as if he has a skin condition, The comedian in his latter days is not disfigured by the bottle attack his scar is almost nonexistant, Vietnam looks as if they ran out of budget and just made it of used sets, Nite Owl's belly has almost dissapeared as well, Silk Spectre's makeup looks as if made by my 10 year old niece (or the makeup artists of DB Evolution), Rorscharch's acting is just sad seems as if he feels that since he can't show his face he just overacts his body language, Veidt looks like a whimp (sort of a younger gay Bill Gates that never hit the gym) in costume, and slo-mo everywhere from emotional moments to action squences to just plain walking down the street. The saddest part is that these people are supposed to be real people, not these shiny bad-acting fashion products; this has just made a big hole in my hopes for it being good. Suddenly the unbelievable rumor of Veidt being left stranded in antarctica doesn't seem so far fetched, and that will ruin the movie for me even if there is a squid.

As for the acting, saintc..... the story is very character driven (at least in the graphic novel), it's not just mindless explosions, hot babes in bikinis, slo-mo everywhere, and camera filters gallore, seems they have filmed it kind of like that, after all it is a very simple story, right Mr. Snyder?. For me bad acting on Watchmen is like good acting on Death Proof, it will destroy the movie.

It may be an adaptation but seems to me like they are missing the whole concept of the story. If they wanted mindless explosions and hot babes why not do Youngblood or something like that, guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm starting to wish that it will not see light of day in movie theaters and just be bootleged on the internet.

Oh Happy New Year to all!!

Oh, that's not what I meant about acting, I want good acting oo. but think about it, it's easy to draw,and it is very character driven... but playikng a man in an owl suit, a nut in a rorshach print mask, and a naked blue dude. It's gonna come off as corny in live action period no matter who plays em. I'ma watch it with an open mind and not knit pick, if i enjoy it, then I enjoy it. I'll knit pick when ?I write the review, which I'm good at, but when I watch it, I'm just going to grit my teeth, and enjoy it.from what I can tell, it looks like it won't be too hard. To me, it looks corny in some ways, bt at the same time looks really good. Like a 4 outta 5 fromt eh footage I see. I hope the actors can pull it off, but I feel like it got the concept pretty well visually.

Deliberate all you want to ladies and gentlemen. It's party time.

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE NEW YEAR'S EVE! See you next year!

Ok i think that snyder bit off way more then he could chew by doing Watchmen. the city doesn't even look gritty, i am sorry but when i read watchmen i looked at everything including the way the city looked and i always thought that NYC in watchmen should be this dark and grungy, gritty ass place and by the footage shown it doesn't look it. Nam just looks like it was just thrown in the air and where ever the pieces landed that is where they wanted to film... Once again A NO SQUID ENDING IS COMPLETELY STUPID!!!!!! that ending granted very far fetched is what makes the final bits of the story come together. Everyone in the film needs a little bit more acting lessons except for possibly Rorschach. i mean i am still going to see it but i just have the feeling it might bomb and if it bombs i seriously think Synder will never do a comic book movie again only because [frick]ing up watchmen is like taking a sh*t on a priest people will get pissed.

grif.... read the graphic novel and then you can decide if the squid should be in it or not. Unresolved... probably for Snyder, just as anticlimatic as it is for skylascar after all it is a very simple story, or so Snyder says. The squid does happen at the end, and it's not unresolved it's just what sets the story in motion and part of the conclusion. It does not leave you hanging for another movie (or comic), sort of like real life, some things remain unsolved but set some events in motion. After all nothing ends, nothing ever ends.

Is it just me or does it appear that Laurie and Doc teleport directly from Mars to Antarctica? no "I'm informing Laurie 90 seconds ago" line?.

NoobMike, you seem to be amazingly sure about how the movie goes even though you just saw a few clips. There is nothing at all to justify pretty much 85% of the assumptions you're making about the film. If you look at the trailers they have been strung together to make Dr. Manhattan look like he's a lot more prevalent in the film action wise than he is, they even made the press event look like part of an action scene, or where he takes the tank apart suddenly appears to be part of battle. Quite a bit of what you're criticizing is just to draw people in with the trailer. You're also damning the special effects before they're completed, there are still months before it comes out, do you really think they're done working on it? they have time to remake Dr. Manhattan purple if they wanted. You don't know much of anything about the film and it's probably close to time everyone here stops pretending they do know.

Well, Mr. Snyder has grown so full of himself, but he is young and hopefully he'll mature. Also the studio is taking advantage of his unprecedented success with 300 for marketing purposes.

I've never seen the graphic novel so I'm sure I'll enjoy this film. I'll read it after I see the movie.

My point about the Dr. Manhattan thing was meant to show how pretty much every scene of the trailer is taken out of context and it was a perfect example of how it's just meant to look more dynamic than it is. You have just been judging the marketing and jumping to conclusions about every little thing. Just like you jumped to the conclusion that I was being a know it all by making a comment about the visuals potentially being incomplete. You're not just making observations, you're really actually just whining about how it's not up to par with what you want without actually knowing anything about the finished product. I'm not trying to say the film WILL be good or accurate, but I am saying that anyone who says it positively will not(with exclusion to the filmmakers) doesn't really know what they're talking about. As far as everyone hating Snyder, he may very well be making a film as true to the story as he can, any changes may not actually be his fault directly, we've read the horror stories about the disputes on the Wolverine set between director and studio, and that was with an Oscar winning director. I've consistently enjoyed Snyder's films, and I'm willing to have an open mind for this one.

ok i just watched that footage again and i reeeaaaaallllllly want to see this movie! fingers crossed

mmm Ion, maybe Adam did have one, after all God took out Adam's rib to create Eve, he could have taken it out through his belly and created the first belly button.

ror, believe me it will definitely come out.

As for skylarscar... I'll whine about it as much as I want from what I see, if it is not finished... they should finish it before showing it. If it is finished I just hope there's more footage with the Play-doh doc than the skin diseased one. I don't go around telling people to shut the [frick] up, just because they don't think that Watchmen could suck, I read their comments and try to debate them. As for the unaccuracy of the movie, Snyder himself said he changed the ending.

You say that you consistently have enjoyed Snyder's films? you talk as if he has made a dozen or so films. He has done two movies, I enjoyed Dawn of the Dead although I think the original was way better. As for 300, after a while I got really bored with Snyder's obsession with slo-mo. Sort of like what Matrix would have been had they filmed 30% of it in bullet-time, sure it may be cool at first but after a while it starts to get annoying. It's like saying I consistently enjoy Neil Gaiman's books after just reading Coraline, or that I consistently enjoy Thor after just reading issues 3 and 4.

And I find Snyder to be extremely annoying, have any of you read his "my movies are love letters to the creators of the stories" speech?. Really STFU Snyder, the less time I see you the less problems I have with your movie. Although like I said before just because I find him annoying doesn't mean I won't like his work.

As for marketing of the movie... you say the trailer is to draw in the crowd, and that they are using images out of context probably making it seem more dynamic than it will be. Well the experience I have with marketing is that when you lie to people to make them buy your product, the story is never pretty.

dogchasingcars whats with the dark knight trolling!?...
Just say that Watchmen isnt better than the dark knight and will understand your statement...

totally agree with deadwebhead