Saw "Watchmen" billboard: 3.6.09

[Fire Walk With Me]

Studio City, California. I thought they'd wait until summer.

Here's crossing our collective fingers in hopes that it retains essence along with form.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. If it stays in the full version Kevin Smith saw, our hopes will be answered.

He couldn't praise the film enough, and if a comic book addled guy like him reacted that way, I have no reason to doubt its worth.

[Cant trust em]

2. I'm not very optimistic about this one

This book was far too heady for your average super-hero movie watcher. It might be critically successful, but I doubt that it will make that much money.

[RandySF]

3. How long is the film?

I would think it would take all day/night to watch this one if it's true to the comic.

[RandySF]

4. I just recently read "Watchmen"

Excellent series. By the time I finished, I wound up personally disliking all the "heroes".

Night Owl - Adult clinging to childhood fantasies of himself.
Silk Spectre - Too delicate to be a hero. "It's about ME ME ME".
Dr. Manhatten - An adolescent with his finger on a nuclear trigger (sort of like an ex president I know of).
Comedian - Don't know where to begin.
Rorscach - Sexually repressed, perverted right-wing psychopath
Ozymandias - Messiah complex

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Exactly. Very symbolic of the 80's.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

5. High hopes

In 300 Director Zack Snyder treated his source material with a great deal of reverence. Not only were numerous scenes *directly* duplicating Frank Miller's artwork, but the pacing, atmosphere, even Lynn Varley's color palette were all meticulously recreated for the film.

Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons' art style is significantly different from Frank Miller's, but from what I've seen, Snyder is maintaining a similar degree of reverence. Purists may not be happy with such dense source material being crunched into (hopefully at least) 2 hours, and others are concerned that the message of Watchmen, the first truly postmodern superhero fable, would have been better exploited ten or more years ago. That may be true, but at least the film has a director who has proven his capability with unorthodox source material.

[RandySF]

6. 2 hours, 40 minutes

I don't recommend drinking a lot of coke.

[mackerel]

8. LOL