Comments on: The Watchmen Trailer

By: The Watchmen

The Watchmen — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:24:33 +0000

yup you guys are correct.. the trailer really keeps me excited..

By: Flash

Flash — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:07:58 +0000

ok so the trailer looks amazing and looks like it’s gonna stay true to the graphic novel which is a good thing because it’s a masterpiece and something you need to read before seeing the film..

but im worried. worried that Zach Snyder is going to make a big mistake with the ending. without giving anything away, the ending in the movie is NOT going to be the ending in the graphic novel as he wants to go for a more audience friendly ending.

scared this is going to destroy the final message of the movie and is going to ostracize a lot of the fans..

what do you think?

-Flash

By: logan

logan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:01:40 +0000

Wow i love this trailer i really cant stop watching it. I found a great watchmen fan site with other trailers. Here you go http://www.watchmentrailer.net

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:45:55 +0000

It’s much better on the big screen. I saw it during Dark Knight (which is much better than Iron Man) and it looks awesome.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:09:25 +0000

As someone who has read the graphic novel, I was actually pleasantly surprised by this trailer. Snyder seems to have captured the look of the novel pretty well.

Then again, I’ve always felt Snyder’s strengths were in visuals, and not in character and story. And that’s a shame, because Watchmen is a film that will live or die based on how well the characters and themes come across. The novel is one of the best I’ve ever read (Time listed it as one of the best 100 Novels of All Time, for good reason) and is one of those things that I don’t think could be fully transferred to the screen. There are simply too many subtle details and complex themes to be explored in a single film.

I’m just hoping the film is semi-decent – there’s no way it will live up to the book. No way at all. If you haven’t read the graphic novel, do it. If you only read one graphic novel in your life, this is the one to read.

By: Nixon

Nixon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:40:01 +0000

I saw it on IMAX, it wa amazing !!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bishop

Bishop — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:23:35 +0000

My pants have tightened in uncomfortable but awesome ways after viewing this.

By: ButterOnMyPopcorn

ButterOnMyPopcorn — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:09:10 +0000

I don’t know anything about watchmen….so I had no clue what that trailer was about. In my opinion it looked pretty boring, slow, and emo.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:07:45 +0000

Just came back from The Dark Knight. They had the trailer running in front of that, but I can’t say I enjoyed it any more in full screen. Guess it’s not that kind of trailer.

By: Mozzerino

Mozzerino — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:11:29 +0000

Man oh man.
When I watched this last night I actually wanted to cry so big was my disapointment. I didn’t like it at all.
But now that I have watched the high-res version in glorious quicktime, I start to warm up to it.
Dr. Manhattan, who I first thought looked awful, looks actually pretty good on second look. I love the Owl-Ship, it looks almost exactly like in the novel. Laurie looks good and I quite like the movie-suit for Nite-Owl.
What I hate is Rorschach’s voice. It’s just not how I imagined it at all. Sounds like a forced Jack Bauer-voice, I was hoping for something a bit more raspy and sinister. And the animation of the mars fortress looks awful, but I’m sure they’ll work on that in months to come.

A nice little post-modern touch is the use of that Smashing Pumpkins song, which was originally written for BATMAN & ROBIN. Shows quite a confidence on the side of the filmmakers to play with that association.