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HOLY SHIT!!!! That Watchmen trailer is awesome! I know from some set photos I'd seen I knew they were doing the street corner in the book so close to the comic it was scary, but this is going to a whole other level of faithfulness.
I'm curious how this kind of slavish faithfulness to Alan Moore is going to play compared to how Sin City and 300 were to Frank Miller, where the testosterone overload ruled all.
I've been excited about Watchmen since I saw the first image of The Comedian. I'm overly annoyed that the movie continues to be called "The Watchmen" at work. I hope they fix it before it shows up on marquees.
in other news- I finally saw Cloverfield. Was it here that someone said it was an art film poorly disguised as a monster movie? Spot on, imo. I wish I'd read the trivia on imdb before I sent the disc back. I would have liked to watch the end again so I could see the splash in the background at Coney Island.
I just rented it the other night, and it's extremely difficult to spot on DVD even if you know when and where to look for it.
In other Comic Book Movie News, I'm amusing myself by looking in old threads at how people reacted to Heath Ledger's casting as The Joker.
I still won't be convinced until I see it with my own eyes, but people have had good things to say about him in the role. I suppose seeing some of my grandmother's mannerisms on that clown face will help make him seem suitably creepy to me.
Your reaction is the one I'm most eager to read (because your first reaction was the most negative and the funniest).
Okay, I've begun re-reading Watchmen, which I haven't read in five years. And I just burst out laughing because Jeffrey Dean Morgan is playing the Comedian. That man just keeps getting killed, doesn't he?
Just got back from The Dark Knight (bonus - that Watchmen trailer was one of the ones before the movie, plus we got a Bond trailer; no Harry Potter, though). It was freaking AWESOME!! Emphasis on "freak". I agree with Jess on some of the story points being problematic (and Bale's Batman voice, sadly - although in all other ways he was perfect) but the performances were amazing, and Heath Ledger was the scariest psycho I've seen since Silence of the Lambs.
Anyway, I'm actually working tomorrow so I'm to bed. More tomorrow if I have anything coherent to say.
I lurve Wall-E
Eve reminded me of Gir from Invader Zim, especially when she was the embodiment of “shoot first.”
I too loved the violent malfunctioning robot who went apeshit on those security bots. I think he was supposed to be a masseur.
I loved how Wall-E never did pronounce Eve right. I've known a few couples like that.
I liked when Eve immediately suspecting Wall-E of taking the plant showed that she still didn't trust him.
I found it cool that I caught on to why Wall-E wanted Eve to complete her directive only a moment before she did.
I didn't catch that the art history lesson jumped from Van Gogh to computer graphics. I wonder if anyone has made a timeline of the art depicted yet.
just rented it the other night, and it's extremely difficult to spot on DVD
Huh. I thought it was pretty obvious on the big screen, so I'll have to ask my friends who just watched the DVD if they saw it.
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