Yeah guys, I don't think it looks very good!

Zack Snyder is kind of a hack, imo.  To me he has like at the vanguard of the mass of directors that do ONE THING and are totally incapable of anything else, and the worst part is that the one thing he does is completely substanceless.  When I saw the trailer, the thing that stood out to me the most is how to anyone who hasn't read Watchmen, it must look really goddamn cheesy, and Rowain, having never read it, agreed.  I think it looks like another stupid hollow overly-stylized Zack Snyder movie, to be honest.  What did we seee in the trailer?  Nothing of note.  Some dude getting kicked through a window, and a bunch of other random action scenes.  The whole thing looks too BADASS and that is really kind of missing the point of why Watchmen was good and not just another silly comic book about silly superheroes.

Movies like this and Sin City all kind of annoy me with how gimmicky they are about stuff, but the difference is that even the Sin City comics are kind of pulpy and stupid, so the movie was a fairly faithful adaptation.  Watchmen, not so much!  I guess you can't take a two-minute trailer to mean a whole lot, because like Jamicus said, they play up the stupid parts, but at the same time it was telling enough with that FROM THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF 300........ shit because 300 wasn't a particularly good movie, and this guy seems like the type of guy who thought it was, and who would want to ruin another movie by making it, so that sort of made me think we could expect the same thing out of this that we got out of 300: fucken sweet action scenes dude like that one time he took his sword and just chopped that guy's head off like SWIIISSHH and then turned around in slow motion and was like "whos next???" i give it an a++ would buy director's cut dvd

i did it 35 minutes ago


i don't remember this line at all!

I still haven't figured out why Watchmen is supposed to be so special. Everybody who likes it seems to have a very low opinion of the superheroes that have been icons for decades, but Watchmen itself doesn't seem to be much more than a grim version of some second rate superhero story like the Starjammers or something.

Alan Moore created Rorschach as a logical extension of Steve Ditko's characters like Mister A and The Question, both of which follow Ayn Rand's personal philosophy, Objectivism.[3]

Moore once said about Ayn Rand's Objectivism: "I have to say I found Ayn Rand's philosophy laughable. It was a 'white supremacist dreams of the master race,' burnt in an early-20th century form. Her ideas didn't really appeal to me, but they seemed to be the kind of ideas that people would espouse, people who might secretly believe themselves to be part of the elite, and not part of the excluded majority."

To me he has like at the vanguard of the mass of directors that do ONE THING and are totally incapable of anything else, and the worst part is that the one thing he does is completely substanceless.  When I saw the trailer, the thing that stood out to me the most is how to anyone who hasn't read Watchmen, it must look really goddamn cheesy, and Rowain, having never read it, agreed.  I think it looks like another stupid hollow overly-stylized Zack Snyder movie, to be honest.  What did we seee in the trailer?  Nothing of note.  Some dude getting kicked through a window, and a bunch of other random action scenes.  The whole thing looks too BADASS and that is really kind of missing the point of why Watchmen was good and not just another silly comic book about silly superheroes.

How is it visually accurate, exactly?

think people, yourself included, often forget what trailers are supposed to be.  You're supposed to get what the movie will be like out of them.  Why is it that the only things they showed us are stupid action scenes and overly stylized GUY STANDS THERE AND LOOKS LIKE A BADASS shots?  Because that's all you can expect from the movie.  The point is that a scene being of note in a book doesn't mean the same scene is automatically of note in the movie, no matter how little they bothered to do with it.  When I say OF NOTE, what I mean is of note in the movie itself, not a scene that's of note in the book and just took and artlessly shoved in the movie and expected to have the same impact.  None of what they showed us in the trailer mattered; it was just stupid effects and fluff.  None of what they showed us resonated or seemed worthwhile, or was anything more than just superheroes looking cool.  Like I said, trailers are supposed to be reflections of what they movies are going to actually be like, and all this trailer was was FROM THE VISIONARY DIRECTOR OF 300, MORE SHALLOW GARBAGE NERDS EVERYWHERE WILL LAP UP.

Look at the trailer from The Dark Knight, and all that you could get out of it in terms of what the movie was about, what types of people the characters were, and so far.  None of that is present, none of the scenes they show stand up on their own AS SCENES and instead rely on the fact that people will recognize them and know their significance in the book and just carry it over to the movie by themselves, and none of the characters really do anything besides stand there for dorks to ogle.  So yes, I would say I was paying attention throughout the preview, and clearly just got something else out of it.  Also, again, I'm wondering if you read Wacthmen.  How is it visually accurate, exactly?  It looks like a Frank Miller novel, except in color.  Watchmen was nowhere near as stylized as Snyder is making this movie.

Actually since this is coming out in like a whole nother year, I thought this was just like EARLY TRAILER #1, and they will make a second trailer more expanded later like they usually do. I was under the impression this was just a trailer to get the hype ball going and get people asking questions and give an excuse to make the Watchmen novel cost 25$.

so they just happen to have a bunch of fly action scenes made and none of substance whatsoever?  I don't think they just happened to shoot it in a way that all the silly stuff was done when it came time for the trailer, but none of the scenes where people talk, interact, mood is set, and so on.  Also note who is directing it, and remember that even from the earliest trailer, 300 looked exactly like what it ended up being.  I don't think movies like this, from people like this, just come out radically different from the trailers.  Like I said, he's a bit of a hack.

Anyway, I would suggest dialogue.  More character interaction.  More scenes that are just good CINEMATICALLY and not good because you recognize it from the novel.  More scenes where not only are people talking, but perhaps a bit of what the movie is, you know, ABOUT is conveyed to the viewer, because Watchmen is definitely ABOUT something, but you'd never know from the trailer.  There was this tone that the world was building up to something throughout the novel and they didn't even bother to go after it in the trailer.

Say instead of having a random montage of superheroes looking cool shots, they started with panning over the city or something, and having a bit of dialogue that is maybe a bit telling of the situation or the tone of the setting, because god knows there's enough of it throughout the novel that they could've found a clip.  Maybe show the Comedian getting tossed out the window, and cut to bits of Rorschach doing his thing, trying to investigate and find out who did it, maybe have a voiceover from him playing in the background, letting the viewer know how bitter and jaded he is about things.  How much contempt he feels for the CITY OF SIN (heh,,.heh...) around him.  Then they should show some of the friction and tension that's going on between the heroes and the general public/government, because that's definitely something that they could've touched on in a better fashion.  Show Dr Manhattan, maybe how he was created, and more importantly than HIM KISSING SOMEONE or blowing some Charlie up, I would say show the bit where it is like "God exists, and he's an American" since I felt that was sort of exemplary of the ways in which the government used him.  I would also say show other characters and maybe a bit of action, but it was a long trailer, and I don't think I need to go over it POINT BY POINT, but yeah do that and fill the rest of the time with Nite Owl and Silk Spectre and their dynamic, and maybe instead of beginning with panning over the city, they could show a little background on how the current SUPERHERO CLIMATE came to be, with how the first people started wearing costumes and fighting crime and such a generation earlier.

I don't know man, I'm not a FILMMAKER, but they chose all the wrong shit to show basically.

Show Dr Manhattan, maybe how he was created

but, you know whose opinion does hold more weight?  moore's!  there's a reason he distanced himself from this shit.  i would say when the original author is being like "fuuuuuuck that", his side is probably the right one.