very funky

that doesn’t bother me as much as the quote used by ozymandias. kind of gives away the big bad…but i do say that knowing the story. maybe the uninitiated won’t see it.

I wouldn’t worry about full frontal nudity. The could just make him look lilke a Ken doll.

This may be a little picayune, but after a few weeks of intense copyediting at work, the thing that stands out most for me in these posters is the copyediting mistakes on the Ozymandias and Sally Jupiter posters. I hope they haven’t printed anything yet!

Actually, the phrase, “Who Watches The Watchmen?” was never fully depicted in the book. It was always obscured or half spray painted on a wall or juuust offpanel by a few letters. So showing it the same way in the posters is correct. In fact, it annoys me that it shows fully in Ozymandias TV screens!

btw, is the year correct for Nite-Owl II’s quote? I thought it was said in 1985.

Of course we’ll have to see Dr. Manhattan full frontal at some point. You have read the book haven’t you?

Sex is the only thing that keeps Doc M interested in humanity. He can’t be like a Ken doll down there – he’s a sexual person. Otherwise his character becomes a lot less interesting.

Also, Doc M’s level of clothing is sort of a visual metaphor for his humanity. As he becomes less and less interested in the conventions of normal society, he wears less and less clothes, until he just walks around naked all the time.

The whole point of him is that he stops caring about human beings, and start to see them as ants. The fact that he’s walking around with his junk hanging out makes the point very clear. You can’t change that. Get a grip, dude – it’s just a penis. And A CG one at that.

I wanna know if Comedian ever has a full-face gimp mask. So far all I’ve seen is the domino mask.

crackwalker Says:

August 1st, 2008 at 11:09 am
I wanna know if Comedian ever has a full-face gimp mask. So far all I’ve seen is the domino mask.
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from what I’ve heard he doesn’t. The full facemask wasn’t deemed intimidating enough or something so they went with the domino mask.

btw, nice analysis on the symbolism of Dr. M’s absence of clothes. I never thought of it that way.

Carla Gulgino thats all I want to see.

As Kevin Melrose pointed out, these posters are based on the original 1986 promotional posters distributed to comics shops for the comics series. They are *almost* exact recreations (main exceptions being costumes). Google “original watchmen comic promotional poster 1986″ and hit the eBay listings for the black-and-whites of Rorschach and Comedian.

@crackwalker…

http://blog.newsarama.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10007/normal_watchmen_poster_ozy_sm2.JPG

mike and kwesik just schooled everybody! the posters look real nice, trailer was awesome, but i have my doubts on the transition to film as a whole. i expect a lot of eye candy tho! 300 sure was pretty, especially the fight screens.

ooohhhh – THAT’s what that link is

Bubastis looks great – I was worried she wouldn’t make it into the movie

http://www.geocities.com/rootwood/comedian_masks.jpg

I can’t believe some of the criticism about these posters. Something as simple as whether the popular phrase “who watches the watchmen?” is partially obsured or not. Seriously? I could understand pointing it out if it stated “who watches the watchMAN, but to complain about it being partially hidden…come on, please. At THIS point in the release, let’s just be happy that the story is even coming to the big screen. All this nit-picking…so critical, so anal, so unappreciative. Heaven forbid that Dr. Manhattan isn’t the exact hue of blue as he was colored in the novel itself. I tell you…you just can’t please some people. Such small minds.

Yeah…I’m Whining about the Whiners.

Don’t get me wrong – I was skeptical when this film was in development at Paramount – I’ve grown more hopeful with every new piece of news I’ve seen, and now that I’ve seen the trailer, I’m totally on board. I’m officially drinking Zack’s Kool-aid – I am a believer.

If I point out tiny details that are different or whatever, I’m just enjoying myself in the same way I’ve enjoyed the GN for years. Endless minute details that all connect into a huge pattern is another on the the themes that’s woven into the story. So don’t think that I’m picking the movie apart, quite to contrary; I’m digging in and enjoying myself.

I find it quite fun how a lot of posters are complaining about how ytou can read the entire “Who Watches the Watchmen?” line on the posters and how wrong that is, when the main article points to a look at all the original house ads which look almost exactly like the movie posters including the full line.

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/13/fearful-scenery-vintage-watchmen-ads/

Wow the first guy to post on here is weirdly afraid of seeing another dudes package.

Sweeny I think it does seeing as in an interview the actor who plays Night Owl said he put on weight for the role and mentioned how easy it was with junk food.

Is no one else bothered by their constant reference to Snyder as “The VISIONARY Director of 300″? I mean, how visionary can one be for xeroxing a comic book onto film? Obviously it still requires a lot of adaptation and creative license, and was of course 30 was pretty to look at, but…visionary? Why? He didn’t visually design it from scratch.

george, he may not have written the story or made most of the camera angles and all that in 300, but he did make it look gorgeous. the special effects, and the use of cgi in that way was most defintely visionary in the sense that no one else had made a movie that looked quite like that yet. and lets not forget, directors are not writers. so any director making a movie isn’t being “original” as far as the story, it’s the delivery that counts.

The art or science of translating an existing property (whether it be a comic, novel, childrens book, whatever) into a movie, is known as adaptation.
The graphic novel of Watchmen translated with 100% faithfulness into a motion picture would make… a bad movie. Too long, too wordy etc.
Adaptation is a tricky thing. Retaining the essence and major points of a piece of work, keeping the fans happy, bringing the page-bound story to life. It requires a leap into time-based media and usually an attendant sacrifice of certain elements along the way.
You can only cross your fingers whenever your favourite print media is crossing the line into mass-media movie land, and pray that the team of writers/directors/producers doing the work love the damn thing as much as you do… and hope the end result will be an adaptation whose inspiration remains faithful to it’s source.
Fans watching this production’s progress through it’s various web-prescence orgs will be feeling pretty good on all the above points. I saw the trailer at an Imax screening of The Dark Knight in New Zealand. Wasn’t expecting it, was unprepared and totally surprised to be seeing so much of the movie so soon after principal photography wrapped. And I was blown away. In fact, during the slower bits of Dark Knight (of which there were a few too many) I found myself thinkin’ ‘Wow… Watchmen lookin’ gooood!’