Watchmen Trailer is online now.
I'm going to say it. I have my doubts about Zack Snyder. I have seen his films. Dawn of the Dead made me laugh but I don't think it was supposed to. And 300? Guys I'm saying it, don't bother arguing with me, it was pretty stupidly bad. If it just the battles it'd be fine, I loved that speed up, slow down, spear through somebody's face kind of thing. If you read Homer or any of those Classical guys the battles are pretty much that anyway. You get a long description about a guy and his family and his life and then SPLUNK arrow through the eye and out his brain! But come on, it was shiny and so WE ARE NOT GAY overly macho and then you throw in the unnecessary woman bit (I wanted her to fail, stupid whore), the unnecessary LOOK AT THE MANY POSITIONS US SPARTANS HAVE SEX IN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GAY. It was as my dad remarked when we walked out "a fifteen year old boy's wet dream'. I saw it, I was entertained for the most part, I would not watch again.
So a man who has made two films, one a ridiculous zombie film, another a bunch of men in little pants screaming and now he's made what he says is a very faithful adaption of a very good comic. I imagine it'll be a good film so long as you're not precious about the source material. Or it will be ridiculous. Also Oxymandias looks terrible.
You know, with the season over I haven't really seen my dad much. At least before I had 90 minutes every week to talk shit with him. It means we start booking things together. We're seeing the Last Shadow Puppets and Chuck Palahniuk and then they've made a film about Lou Reed's Berlin and I'll probably take him to see that too even though he's seen the concert twice now. People wind me up a lot about football and I do like the sport although I have to be in the mood to watch it sometimes but it really is the easiest way I can connect with him. Laugh is here I am, bored waiting for Julie to get up, typing about my father and he calls with cryptic murmurings before declaring that I can ignore the call and hangs up. Thanks dad, you crazy old man.
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What bugs me is that it looks like it's going to be a superhero story when it's not a superhero story at all. It's just a hero story and that might be ruined by fancy moves and special effects and anime style fighting. I don't ever remember Nite-owl being fit enough to do fancy moves and take down guards and prisoners. Rorschach alright though. His mask looks interesting. The shapes seem to change through fabric rather than a shiny thing.
I think I need to see another trailer before I decide to watch it.
His track record is zombies and men in pants, I was always pretty convinced it was a superhero film. But I'll have to wait for the actual trailer instead of the 'look at the shiny stuff I made' to know for sure. It's looking too epic to me. And I never felt that when I was reading, it was all a lot more tired and subtle generally.
A feel of a film depends on how it has been filmed and as the director controls what is being filmed and how, it's inherent that their vision will ultimately decide how a film looks when it's finished.
Looking at Snyder's track-record, the man seems to have a talent for avoiding any kind of meaningful message or depth in his films, where we see loads of men killing and fucking people in graphic ways for 300 and the loss of Romero's satirical elements towards society and soul-crushing consumerism in the remake of Dawn of the Dead (instead, we get people fucking and a big black guy shooting things while talking hard. Oh, and two armoured cars).
Watchmen was created to deconstruct the super-hero, and make them seem more human through their limitations and the realistic way their environment and government reacts to them. I've a feeling Snyder will chop all that and turn it into an out-and-out 'our pal's dead, let's go avenge his murder!' with plenty of guns, goons, chases, and people getting kicked in bad places.
But if you enjoy a firework show, then by all means.
That's sorta what I meant by epic. It's trying too hard to be holy crap comic book on screen! when it should be trying harder. I mean the only reason I even saw 300 was because I saw 'from the people who brought you sin city' and went oooh rodriguez and bought a ticket.
I was so very disappointed when I realised my mistake. However, on the subject of comic book films The Spirit looks insanely cool, highly fetishised and really I just want Sin City 2 already.
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