I think the subject says it all, so I’ll just shut the hell up and let you watch the video.
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I know a tun-and-a-half nerds that are fretting if the Watchman movie will stay true to the actual comic. After seeing this I would hope most of you can settle the hell down, ’cause this looks pretty spot-on if you ask me.
And if you don’t know who or what the Watchman is, you suck. Well at the very least you’re uneducated in what is arguably one of the most important comics in history… really, it’s true. So to help school you here’s the general plot of the film:
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
Swank, yes?
Here’s a look-see at a movie poster standee someone captured at some theater for the upcoming movie Watchman, based on the comic of the same name that comic nerds seemed to think could never be made into a movie. Hey comic nerds… you were wrong. But that isn’t to say that Hollywood won’t screw it up. I personally have hope though. 300 director Zack Snyder seems to be a perfect fit for the somewhat psychedelic superhero story.
Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming film adaptation of the comic cult classic Watchman is having a contest - create an advertisement for a fake product. If it wins he’ll plaster it somewhere in the movie. Users of YouTube will be asked to help narrow down the submissions. Up to 20 fictitious commercials could make it in the film, those winners caching in on $1000.00 each.
Get to it fanboy.
Source - The Underwire
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