Watchmen the movie

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:28 pm

Who is down?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/

Casting looks like absolute shit, but I do love The Watchmen.

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:14 pm

Well, at least Zack Snyder is a promising add.

Anyway, fuck Watchmen. I want Transmetropolitan!

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:41 pm

This is the guy who took Dawn of the Dead, a brilliant critique on the excesses of consumer culture, and remade it (in itself an excess of consumer culture) WITHOUT the social commentary. The man is a philistine.

Also, take a look at his previous graphic novel adaptation 300, while there wasn't alot of depth to the source material there was plenty of room to work in an underlying message or theme to the film. The problem with Synder is his lack of understanding of the film medium to smuggle ideas, the fact of the matter is he has no idea there is any level to operate on aside from the superficial. 100% style, 0% substance, making him the absolute worst choice to direct one of the deeper and more critically acclaimed graphic novels in print.

I also think his lack of intelligence as a director is made incredibly obvious in his casting of hot young actors and actresses to play characters going through midlife crisis.

Goddamned awful jackass.

Post by **Alexander** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:38 am

Aonaran wrote:This is the guy who took Dawn of the Dead, a brilliant critique on the excesses of consumer culture, and remade it (in itself an excess of consumer culture) WITHOUT the social commentary. The man is a philistine.

Also, take a look at his previous graphic novel adaptation 300, while there wasn't alot of depth to the source material there was plenty of room to work in an underlying message or theme to the film. The problem with Synder is his lack of understanding of the film medium to smuggle ideas, the fact of the matter is he has no idea there is any level to operate on aside from the superficial. 100% style, 0% substance, making him the absolute worst choice to direct one of the deeper and more critically acclaimed graphic novels in print.

I also think his lack of intelligence as a director is made incredibly obvious in his casting of hot young actors and actresses to play characters going through midlife crisis.

Goddamned awful jackass.

Qfe.

This Snyder guy is, indeed, one of the worst choices for director of Watchmen.

I brought this up in #fallout couple of weeks ago, back then Keanu Reeves was listed as rumoured for the part of Dr. Mahhattan. Fortunately, Keanu had sense enough to turn down the part.

Patric Wilson will play the part of Nite Owl... In the novel, Night Owl was in his mid forties (if I am not mistaken), this guy looks like he is barely out of his twenties.

Jude Law will play Ozymandias, which is ok, I guess.

A great actor -- looks-wise -- for the Rorschach part would be the guy who played Sandman(?) in Spiderman 3.

So far, this looks to be the Fo3 of the graphic-novel-to-movie-world. Watchmen is one of my all-time favourite stories, hope they don't fuck this one up aswell...

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:16 am

That actually isn't even the worst part, I was reading on ain't it cool or in some other publication where there were actually 20 somethings being cast in a handful of the other major roles. While it is possible that they would be the younger versions shown in flashback (which I doubt) they would still be far too young for the parts not to mention their inexperience and inappropriateness for the parts.

Edit: I just remembered I saw it on "the feed" because I was watching G4 for some damned reason

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:36 am

edhead wrote:Transmetropolitan!

qfe

I would watch it. But I don't know if it would make a good movie?

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:41 am

This, the Age of Crass, precludes the possibility of Transmetropolitan ever being a good film.

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:52 am

Jude Low? Yuck. He's too skinny and pretty boyish for the role.

Zack Snyder, what the fuck. Watchmen had brains, this guy's movies had none. Albeit I liked them.

And yeah, Transmetropolitan. Let's hijack this thread and turn it into a cast guessing game. So, who should play Spider?

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:01 am

Cthulhu wrote:...
And yeah, Transmetropolitan. Let's hijack this thread and turn it into a cast guessing game. So, who should play Spider?

Woody Harrelson?

But he'd have to be a lot meaner.

I always thought of Spider Jerusalem as a cross between Hunter Thompson and Alan Alda.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:31 am

Redeye wrote:I always thought of Spider Jerusalem as a cross between Hunter Thompson and Alan Alda.

While I have never heard of this graphic novel it has just mysteriosly jumped to the top of my reading list. Odd, that.

Mechanurgist · Post by **Mechanurgist** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:52 pm

Transmet got boring real fast, and the satire wasn't half as clever as reading a good book, like, say Fight Club.

Watchmen is an amazing, epic story, and there's absolutely no way anyone could properly turn it into a film. Francis Ford Coppola wouldn't be able to do this graphic novel justice; there's no way Snyder will do anything other than showcase some new digital effects and funky lighting. They'll probably spend a third of their budget modelling the giant tentacle monster, the asswipes.

Most importantly the threads of story in Watchmen were woven together using book scraps, film bits, interviews, memories, and extremely sophisticated cutup/flashback techniques. It would have to be a 6-hour movie to replicate that experience.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:25 pm

Redeye wrote:I always thought of Spider Jerusalem as a cross between Hunter Thompson and Alan Alda.

He was obviously influenced by Hunter S Thompson, I don't know any actor who could do a good job on him. I don't think Woody Harrelson would be able to do it.

I always kinda associated Spider with my Ceramics teacher, because he pretty much looked exactly like him.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:45 pm

My ceramics teacher always looked like he smoked alot of pot, cool guy though.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:27 pm

NEWS UPDATE: Some bitch from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle has just been added to the cast! SCORE!

Khan Noonien Singh · Post by **Khan Noonien Singh** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:29 am

I always thought Tim Roth would do best at looking the part, but I really have no idea who could best capture Spider's incredibly manic personality.

How, exactly, is Spider Jerusalem like Alan Alda? Do you mean Alan Arkin? Even that I don't quite see.

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:14 pm

I was hoping Paul Greengrass would get the job but that fell through. I'll still be catching Snyder's take. If I had any criticism of 300 it would be that it was too slavishly devoted to the source material. If he keeps that up for Watchmen, we'll be ok.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:50 pm

I think he chose 300 because he doesn't know how to read.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:15 pm

Khan Noonien Singh wrote:...
How, exactly, is Spider Jerusalem like Alan Alda? Do you mean Alan Arkin? Even that I don't quite see.

The bleeding heart facet.

Nice counterpoint to the other parts.

And some randomness.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:10 pm

It's going to suck.