Friday, August 01, 2008
new Watchmen posters
It's both awesome and maybe ridiculous how faithful Zack Snyder is trying to be with this film. They've released new character posters that are almost exact recreations of a series of ads that ran in DC comics back in the mid-'80's. It's like Snyder is beating us over the head with all these tiny details, hoping to allay any fears fans of the comic might have.
Here are a couple of comparisons. First, Ozymandias:
and here's Dr. Manhattan (sorry if blue digital butts aren't SFW):
So yeah, at this point I'm pretty confident Snyder will at least nail the look of the movie. But how will it feel? I've never really seen any of these actors at work, other than Billy Crudup and Kelley Leak (oh, and Malin Akerman in Brothers Solomon), and more than most comic book movies this one will need good performances. There's still a lot of room for failure on this one, and although I'm pretty sure I'll be seeing it now (something I couldn't have said just a month ago), I'm still not expecting a lot.
It's both awesome and maybe ridiculous how faithful Zack Snyder is trying to be with this film. They've released new character posters that are almost exact recreations of a series of ads that ran in DC comics back in the mid-'80's. It's like Snyder is beating us over the head with all these tiny details, hoping to allay any fears fans of the comic might have.
Here are a couple of comparisons. First, Ozymandias:
and here's Dr. Manhattan (sorry if blue digital butts aren't SFW):
So yeah, at this point I'm pretty confident Snyder will at least nail the look of the movie. But how will it feel? I've never really seen any of these actors at work, other than Billy Crudup and Kelley Leak (oh, and Malin Akerman in Brothers Solomon), and more than most comic book movies this one will need good performances. There's still a lot of room for failure on this one, and although I'm pretty sure I'll be seeing it now (something I couldn't have said just a month ago), I'm still not expecting a lot.
