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First Look At The Watchmen’s “Minutemen”
The good folks over at AICN have posted up our first look at the superhero team “The Minutemen” from the upcoming comic adaptation “Watchmen” (you can see a larger version of the pic here)
I’m very apprehensive about this movie. The comic is AWESOME… but I have my doubts that the story in the comic will translate well onto the big screen. It’s a very different type of superhero comic story than your traditional fare, and I’m not convinced audiences will get it… or be attracted to it (unless they pull a Disney and completely mislead people with the marketing and make it look like some high calibre action adventure movie).
Still… I’ll be there opening night.
ooh, first post. i know about this film, but what is the minutemean?
@DEAN: The Minutemen were the very first team of superheroes. Just like how we see them in the picture, cheesy and goofy looking, is how people in the comic saw them. One of the Minutemen would describe how some people would laugh at them at times.
I love this picture so much. It catches everything so perfectly.
The more I see this picture, the more I like it.
I love the Adam West’s Batmanesque costume design.
This is also finally the confirmation that Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice are in the movie, let’s hope the rape-scene will be seen in the film.
@MOZZERINO-The rape scene better be in the damn film!
It is, dont worry I just saw the movie it was pretty good.
cheers!
Gotta agree with you John. This movie is walking a fine line between serious and silly, but so far of what I’ve seen has been good. I’ll need a trailer to help me get a better understanding of it. I am glad that it looks like it’s remaining faithful to the book.
Whether a general audience will get the film and whether it succeeds commercially is very different question from whether its going to be good (much like Serenity). The Watchmen differs greatly from traditional superhero fare and from typical conceptions of what a superhero is. I think the success of the film commercially is going to rest heavily on how well they can communicate this in advertising the film. The problem is that general audiences may very well go in looking for one thing and be disappointed when they get something very different.
I’ve never read the comics, but I know what they are about, which leads me to wonder whether this will be R or PG-13, especially due to the rape scene. I don’t know the MPAA’s policy on rating movies with rape in them, but I can imagine the uproar that will happen when some unsuspecting parent takes their kid to “that new superhero movie” and a rape scene starts up. Yikes.
@DJJ
You got it Mister, the success of this film and I mean financial, not artistic success is gonna depend heavily on marketing this right.
Personally I wouldn’t want to be the person in charge of marketing this film. It’s gonna be a tough sell.
Keep in mind that “rape scenes” have often occured in the past without having to show anything graphic. Sometimes the insinuation of such a horrible thing comes off as even more sinister (though less visceral). That actual scene may not even BE in the movie but may easily be alluded to.
I had heard, though, that Watchmen WOULD be an R, but that could merely be speculation from an uninformed source.
As far as the costumes being silly, well, that was kind of the point wasn’t it? The superhero costumes of the past reflected where we were as a people at the time. Take a look at Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon. Sure it’s hokey but at the time? Man, a spaceship was flying past all these planets! Amazing! Now if you wanted to evoke that era in a film, wouldn’t you want to mimick that style, rather than add a modern visualisation of it?
This is precisely what is happening in the Golden Age heroes you see in the photo.
Snyder confirmed that he IS making an R rated film.
fyi
heres a related Watchmen article.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/27/watchmen-three-hour-theatrical-cut-4-12-hour-directors-cut-dvd-planned/
im a fan of the novel and i watched the film on wednesday during the pre-showing. i thought it was pretty accurate to the novel. my friends who havent read it thought the film was great also
I have seen the movie twice now and i didn’t see any rape scenes.
I seen an attempted rape scene…
But nowhere near a rape scene.