I wonder who they got to play Big Figure? He was definitely one of my favorite sub-characters.

Everything does have a polished look to it but who knows how “shiny” things would be in real life from the graphic novel. Plus the Minutemen costumes are kept exactly the same as in the graphic novel. I did get the impression that the Watchmen world was dirty like in Blade Runner. From the pics, it looks like it is.

@David. I’d like to see Maus brought to the screen as well.

I’m going to with Whitney (again) and say: take out all the slow motion, and you’ve got youself a 70 minute movie. That would be way less painful

There is no way that any film could convey the volume of ideas, emotions and metaphors that the comic series does. There are way too many characters, plots, subplots and dynamics to cram into 120 minutes. God knows there are few films that have the balls to do another “Kill Bill” fix. Which may be too harsh of a statement because I doubt I could hold my interest in the series of three films over an extended period of time. I’d need all of this in one shot.

Warning: SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!!!

I surmise that this film will mainly cover the “action” plots of this films. The whole asassination plot, Dr Manhatten’s origin, the rape of Silk Spectre and why Rorshach wears a panty on his head. What will be missing is the scope of this titanic story that cover the gamet of nuclear war to colonizing Mars. There is more information in this series than any 10 films you could name and I have no doubt that much will be left out.

I have little doubt this film will be a sucess, if just from the number of nuts that want to see this brought to life. Personally, I’m more interested in seeing which Avenger series that Marvel will go with for their big film four years hence. I mean, do I want to see Tony Stark as a sucessful, charismatic, lippy hero or as a drunk, pathetic genius that smell like a chemo ward? Such choices are the little things that spice up my day to day grind.

It will be a stylish film and a fun film that anyone can watch, even if they’ve never read a single issue of the comic. And as for Zach Snyder, if you cannot watch the first battle scene in “300″, the unique use of camera’s, the meticulous choreography of the combatants and not consider using the term “visionary director”, then here is my challenge to you:

Name for us the first three films that utilized filming the SAME scene with 3 different cameras and then editiing all of that into 1 seamless segment. Please.

Don’t overthink “Watchmen”, do what the rest of us are doing. Buy the Smiley button and start wearing it now. Let’s don’t make it a film event, let’s make it a movement. And, if you don’t know what that word means, just look that up in your Funk-n-Wagnels.

Peace, man.

I’d say too shiny or polished. It doesn’t look that hip to me – but everybody looks way too good. None of them had powers, and most of them sucked. I mean, the Nite Owl and…body thong chick were, in the comic, not very good at or very interested in being superheroes. So to have them look more polished than the Dark Knight is just weird.

Mostly, it just looks bad. But still cool to look at. Like something else I seem to remember…

http://dearjesus.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/300-is-an-a-plus-world-class-totally-amazing-film/