EMPIRE will have the new trailer, which will be on DARK KNIGHT prints, tonight at midnight EDT, 9:00 PST.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=22942

Why wait?

http://www.empireonline.com/video/watchmen/

*update* Dear Lord Almighty. This really looks like an astonishing piece of work. This looks ridiculously good.

Here is a YouTube link as well if you can't get the Empire one to work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-rI7TTz2k

Quality wasn't great, but awesome looking trailer. Hardcore. I'm sure people are going to bitch and moan about cgi Dr. Manhattan, but was there any other way?

-I like the song, but why use Smashing Pumpkins to score a 1980s-set film? It's kind of cool, but something feels "wrong".

-I'm not feeling Osterman's pain at having his body ripped apart, even though the images are straight from Dave Gibbons. At the same time, it looks like the scene is interpreted as a holy moment when the world changes forever.

-Speaking of. "Everything we know will change" is a mega-blah tagline, when WATCHMEN comes preloaded with great catchphrases.

-Can anyone tell if Doctor Manhattan is nude or not in the cafeteria materialization shot?

-The conflict: deep down, I don't want this movie to exist. I don't want my hopes up. I don't wanna get hurt. And when I see the glass watch gear palace rising from the sands of Mars, I can't help it. My hopes keep upping.

Hated the music, and the trailer suffers from an egregious lack of Gugino, but it does look impressive, doesn't it? Take that, Frank Miller! I love the shot of the "Blue Beetle Bug" emerging from the Hudson. Who did the CGI FX for this film (of course, maybe it doesn't look so good on a bigger screen)?

Looks to me like Dr. Manhattan is wearing a Speedo?

Yeah, I can't believe they aren't using "Who's Watching the Watchmen?" and the smiley face logo more prominently.

-i HATED the song. it was the one thing that really pops out at me as being horrible.

and as much as i've been dreading this movie being made, it actually looks pretty damn good. but i'm trying to keep my hopes down a bit...

i also was wondering if they would have the "balls" to show dr manhatten nude (when he was nude in the comic)...

things i was surprised weren't there - smiley face button...and the "countdown" motif. i really expected a clock to be featured ready to strike midnight...

i still really have a problem with the actress they picked to play the silk spectre. in the book she's a russ meyer type of woman. really tall, big busted, full figured...the actress they chose couldn't be further from that image.

oh, and also...

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i thought it was interesting that as they show the comedian being thrown out of the window, the next shot is of ozymandias!

Here is the trailer in beautiful Quicktime:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

You don't like Smashing Pumpkins? You're kidding.

I LOVE doing that.

© All "humour" copyright 1999 BOWFINGER. All rights reserved.

Since trailer-cutters only have a few songs on their ipods to work with, be thankful it's not another REQUIEM FOR A DREAM cue. How many trailers have used that? Must be in the hundreds now.

Victor

Great trailer. I didn't really mind using Smashing Pumpkins, but is the movie still set in the 80's? I figured they'd update that part, like V FOR VENDETTA.

Although...the 80's revival fad IS still in full swing.

Yep. Extended Nixon terms and all.

Welll...I'll be a....

For a while it was required by law to include "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana in every action or thriller trailer. That seems to have been repealed lately though.

Well, add BABYLON AD to the list of "REQUIEM"-scored trailers.

Victor

Interesting story about how 20th Century Fox is taking WB to court over who really owns the rights to release WATCHMEN. So far a judge has said Fox "still held a claim to the right."

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/twentieth-...tchmen-in-2009/

Studio War Involving 'Watchmen' Heats Up

Someone will pay someone else a bunch of money and the suit will go away. Not crazy about that still, but I don't know that much about the property.

Intentional publicity stunt, possibly? Becoming "the film the studios don't want you to see" would be a perfect seller for Watchmen's audience. ;)

And, yeah, that is one goofy still.