Watchmen Trailer Online

speedboatchase

Incredible

http://www.empireonline.com/video/watchmen/

Karl Hungus

Wow.

****ing. Wow.

Chad ghostal

They seem to have taken it down :[

"See it first at Empire on Friday morning"

Boo-urns!

Karl Hungus

3 times I've watched it now... In a word, incredible. This actually exceeds my expectations.

Dr. Manhattan looks terrific too!

madrab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-rI7TTz2k

awesome!!

Karl Hungus

If you've missed the trailer, here's one on youtube, but the quality isn't good at all. I would absolutely urge everyone here to wait until tomorrow and see the high quality one on Empire.

**** me, it's something else, and you don't want to see a poor version of it.

Edit: Beat me to it Madrab.

madrab

dr manhatten looks class, & looks like they left in

mars? would have though most of that would be removed

Tusky

Ive never read the Watchmen but....wow, that looks absolutely incredible. About as far from a typical hollywood comic book movie as you can get.

Cant wait!

Should I read it before or after the movie comes out ?

Karl Hungus

Tusky wrote: »

Should I read it before or after the movie comes out ?

I would say ASAP, it's one of the best things ever written.

madrab

yep its class

Tusky

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I would say ASAP, it's one of the best things ever written.

Any idea where I could pick it up cheap ? Saw it in Chapters the other day but it was mucho expensive.

Karl Hungus

Tusky wrote: »

Any idea where I could pick it up cheap ? Saw it in Chapters the other day but it was mucho expensive.

Well, I bought mine in Sub City ages ago, so not sure if there's any shops that'll be doing it cheap now, but you can get it from Play.com or Amazon.co.uk for £9.99.

BopNiblets

Lol, putting "HD quality" in youtube video titles is just gone beyond funny now.

Can't wait.

Tusky

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Well, I bought mine in Sub City ages ago, so not sure if there's any shops that'll be doing it cheap now, but you can get it from Amazon.co.uk for £9.99.

+ shipping...would probably work out close to 20 euro. Might be around the same price in one of the comic shops here.

The Freeman

Tusky wrote: »

Ive never read the Watchmen but....wow, that looks absolutely incredible. About as far from a typical hollywood comic book movie as you can get.

Cant wait!

Should I read it before or after the movie comes out ?

read it dude, i'm reading it for the second time now and its amazing work, it as designed to be fully understood only after the 3rd read by moore the author;)

trailer looks awesome

Karl Hungus

Free shipping from play.com, so €15 really.

MooseJam

none of the links in this thread are working, is this still up anywhere ?

BopNiblets

Gah, download the higher quality to you hard drives next time guys!

Vokes

Hmmm, that looked interesting. Im intrigued.

And looks like they pulled the best thing (a Pumpkins song) from .......Batman and Robin of all movies, heh :pac:

BopNiblets

Still on Trailer Addict in better quality!

aidan_walsh

Looks terrific.

pixelburp

I just watched it there.

Wow.

Just, wow. The tone seems perfect, I spotted moments lifted straight from the comic & even the music used in the trailer was spot-on. I wonder if Synder himself was involved in its making. I'm now super pumped up for this movie & if they're showing this prior to Dark Knight then I'm going to be an explodiing ball of fanboy glee in the cinema this time next week!

MooseJam

is it out in a couple of weeks ?

Raekwon

Watching that gave me a semi! :pac:

Raekwon

MooseJam wrote: »

is it out in a couple of weeks ?

March 2009

Vokes

MooseJam wrote: »

is it out in a couple of weeks ?

Eh, release date is at the beginning of the trailer :pac:

pixelburp

By the by people, what is the Smashing Pumpkins track?

Fysh

The trailer itself is great and has considerably improved my expectations for the film. The choice of song, however, was bloody terrible; as mentioned by someone else it seems a total judgement lapse to have such a promising trailer accompanied by a song that evokes the absolute worst of comic-inspired films.

Still, that's got me actually looking forward to the film somewhat now rather than dreading it (Still prefer the book and cherish my oversize hardcover of it, but that's another matter)

madrab

Thought the music was great, what sp song is it does anyone know?

johnny_ultimate

Holy flurking schnit! That looks very good indeed (even if the music nearly had me muting it - lucky I didn't for that Rorschach voice snippet).
But yeah looks very loyal, thank ****. Jaw dropped when I saw the

Mars

bit at the end.

Very high quality version here, incidentally

ixoy

Where are the pirates...

johnny_ultimate

ixoy wrote: »

Where are the pirates...

On a straight to DVD 'companion piece'. Yarr!

pixelburp

ixoy wrote: »

Where are the pirates...

It'll come as an animated movie for the DVD, narrated by Gerard Butler iirc.

madrab

kinda glad they arent in it, never really got that part of it

Creature

Well that does indeed look quite good. Must go back and read it again.

ixoy

pixelburp wrote: »

It'll come as an animated movie for the DVD, narrated by Gerard Butler iirc.

Sweet - they're actually going to the effort of making it. It would have been a difficult one to incorporate into the main movie.

It's a great graphic novel and now I'm feeling a little less apprehensive that it won't be a complete screw up. I just hope they're fully faithful, right up to and including the great ending - word is they have been, but I'm always cynical..

madrab

without the ending the story would loose alot of its umph

Have to say that the trailer looks amazing. I'm a big fan of Snyder's, his Dawn of the Dead is one of the best horror films in years and 300 is just fantastic. 2009 cannot get here fast enough.

Karl Hungus

ixoy wrote: »

I just hope they're fully faithful, right up to and including the great ending - word is they have been, but I'm always cynical..

Well, I think Synder said he's going to be completely faithful, and some of the cast members have said how the ending isn't going to be changed.

Basq

How'd the feck did I miss this today?

Only spotted it now... looks absolutely wonderful - great visuals, great choice of music and some wonderful moments in the trailer.

Snyder's hit-and-miss in my eyes.. thought 'Dawn of The Dead' was one of the best horrors of late but '300' remains absolute trash in my eyes. Definitely was a good choice for director though all the same.. at least we didn't get Brett Ratner in his place!! :eek:

pixelburp

Yeah, the guy who plays Night Owl confirmed that Synder had remained faithful to the original ending. I suppose I'm not still sold on the actor playing Ozy, he does seem a tad too young, but I'll see how it plays.

Why the hatorade for the music btw the guys? I thought it worked better than 300's own rock tailer music tbh.

Karl Hungus

pixelburp wrote: »

I suppose I'm not still sold on the actor playing Ozy, he does seem a tad too young, but I'll see how it plays.

I thought the same thing at first, but as Watchmen takes place over a different decades, I think they needed a young actor that could be aged with makeup, and if you look at him in the trailer at 46 seconds in, it looks like they did a good job.

Fysh

pixelburp wrote: »

Why the hatorade for the music btw the guys? I thought it worked better than 300's own rock tailer music tbh.

Partly because it's a pumpkins-by-numbers track, and partly because it's very reminiscent of the music used in Batman And Robin (also a pumpkins-by-numbers track). If you're making an adaptation of one of the finest comics ever made, particularly one that's based on the idea of superheroes and costumed vigilantes, using a musical backdrop that reminds everyone of the film that was so bad it killed off a film franchise is probably not the best idea.

madrab

but at least there is no yellow or green neon lights in the trailer

(on the topic of B&R, arny was meant to play dr manhatten when they were gonna make the movie years ago)

pixelburp

Fysh wrote: »

Partly because it's a pumpkins-by-numbers track, and partly because it's very reminiscent of the music used in Batman And Robin (also a pumpkins-by-numbers track). If you're making an adaptation of one of the finest comics ever made, particularly one that's based on the idea of superheroes and costumed vigilantes, using a musical backdrop that reminds everyone of the film that was so bad it killed off a film franchise is probably not the best idea.

Yeah I went looking for the track and it turns out it IS the Pumpkins track they used for Batman and Robin, albeit remixed to be more dramatic (which works very well methinks as the original does indeed stink somewhat).

I think however this could potentially be another in-joke by the production crew; it was acknowledged a while back that the rubber-suit versions of the Watchmen were deliberate pastiches of the old-school superhero movie costumes (Schumachers Batman et al) to tie in the visual history of the genre since the original novel. So I think this is just another nod towards that; using music from the nadir of superhero movies. Funny stuff

Sherifu

It looks interesting to say the least.

Dont be at yourself

It looks absolutely fantastic, without a doubt the best realisation of a comic universe yet.

I read a quote from a crew-member who reckoned they were making the Blade Runner of the 21st century.

BopNiblets

Song is a slowed down version of The End is The Beginning is The End.

ztoical

just saw this at the start of the dark knight and it looks a hell of alot better on the big screen, well except for the backwards pan through the cogs - the looks like such a rush job, most likely to have it for the start of Dark Knight. And the music is even more annoying.

JCDenton

BopNiblets wrote: »

Song is a slowed down version of The End is The Beginning is The End.

Correct - but, it's actually a seperate song.

"The Beginning is the End is the Beginning"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_&_Robin_(soundtrack)

Look at songs 1, and 15...

faceman

I havent read Watchmen or even know what its about other than what ive read in mags the past 12 months. As an outsider, i really dont know what to make of this other than, "ah more men in rubber suits".