@MCU: Seriously? STFU.

That was nine kinds of geek awesomeness.

Tiger_Tanaka

@MCU: That's like saying "Citizen Kane" wasn't that special (except in the annals of classic cinema geekdom where it's considered innovative film making).

UncannyXMan

For those of you who wish to see it even sooner than this weekend(!), here's some HD .flv hotness: [tinyurl.com]

TenTimesFiltered

I'm surprisingly (to me, anyway) ambivalent on the whole thing.

I guess it could be cool; I dunno. Still doesn't solve the problem that the graphic novel really wasn't that special.*

*In the grand scheme of things. I realize in the annals of comicbookgeekdom it's high literature, but seriously, come on.

MCU

i still have my reservations about the adaption, but watching the teaser gave me a geek boner.

DrAftershave

i love a hot nerd rumble

el smrtmnky

It gave me a Geek-gasm.

I've never wanted to see a movie so much, ever.

Losin_it

@TenTimesFiltered: holy fuck, that was awesome in HD.

nerd woody, in deed!

el smrtmnky

@MCU: Well, if you compare Watchmen to Hamlet, I guess it doesn't come out that great. But of course, there's no need to do that, just like you don't have compare a Big Mac to steak tartare. As a comic book, Watchmen is woooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo.

Losin_it

epicly epic epicness....

crisdiva

My take on Watchmen is this: The book was 10 years ahead of it's time, unfortunately it was published 20 years ago.

...It's...fine.

I guess.

I'm sure i'll watch the movie.

E

Are we sure it's not a soloflex informercial? They'll stop at nothing.

WGARefugee

You had me at comic-book effluvia.

kookla

I NERDILY maintain that The Watchmen is a heap-load better in terms of sheer storytelling and superb writing than most of the dusty tomes they force children to read in junior high.
The trailer made me pee a little.

End nerd communication.

Huge Tracts of Land

I dunno, that Billy Corgan vibe might sound a little dated, sooner than later.

"DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun FLASH!... AA-AAAAH!"

DearEditor

@MCU: Alan Moore = visual and literary genius. Watchmen = the superhero myth wrapped in issues of politics, gender, American history and general melancholy. Not merely one of the best graphic novels ever; one of the best works of fiction ever.

MisterMuggles

@MisterMuggles: I think Alan Moore was once asked to rank Watchmen among the great works of fiction, and he sensibly demurred. It might be the most influential works of fiction since 1985, I would go that far.

Losin_it

Snyder's storytelling isn't exactly about subtexts, symbolism, and societal commentary (unless you count 300's homoerotica). I'm curious about how he's going to pull it off here, but the trailer looks promising, sans the Corgan dirge, (hell, when is this? 1996?). I also want to know how the story's setting would remain relevant as 1985 was centuries ago for today's teen moviegoers who blow their allowances to see movies that they walk out of midway to answer cell phone calls.

Cam/ron

@MisterMuggles: I think you just inadvertently supported my point, but...sure.

MCU

Ah, I do see your point and suppose my going all hyperbole-happy indeed might've made me seem like an enormously dorky comic gook geek, but I swear I'm not; it's just that given the choice between, say, Nabokov, Joyce, Melville or Moore, I do believe I personally get more from subsequent re-reads of Moore. But that's just me...

MisterMuggles

@DearEditor: DATED? Jesus, that Billy Corgan riff is from Batman, ten years ago. It's my favorite song from the soundtrack to that one with Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy.

Not kidding.

Isn't crossing over from DC some kind of excommunicable offence?

raincoaster

If you are bitching about the Corgan track, you obviously don't get the whole idea behing the book (and therefore, the movie). It's a fucking commentary on comic book heroes, so the song is spot on. Let io9 write this stuff.

You likely bitched about Snyder using NiN for the 300 Trailers too...

Grandjester

Crogan's whine or not, this movie gives me wood and I will be one of those idiots in line at midnight on 3/8/09.

I may even get a 'Who is watching the watchmen' tattoo.

Sad.

itmustbeken

@itmustbeken:

Not in latin? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

drftjgoj

God, I want to have sex.

TimGunn

@MCU: While I'm not militant enough to tell you to eff off, MCU, I do feel the need to say that Watchmen stands as the finest piece of graphic literature that I have ever read. While comparing it to Nabokov, Melville, or Joyce is, obviously, unfair, it was entertaining and thought -provoking, and aren't those two of the fiction author's main goals?

TheQuestion

Whoa whoa, hey now. Hate the game, not the etc. etc.

I didn't say it wasn't a notable comic book. (Or graphic literature: pick your nomenclature.)

While we're (still) on it, though, I'm actually curious:

Is anyone who's set to gleeful vibrating by the mere thought of Watchmen under the age of, say, thirty? Twenty-five if we're being lax? And who didn't read it as a kid/teenager when they formed a lasting impression of it then as being a peak of awesomeness? Kinda like how I used to feel about the Millenium Falcon.

Just honestly curious. Maybe I was just too old when I read it.

MCU

Should I point out that the song in the trailer was written for a different superhero movie?

+ Watch video

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jworth

@MCU: I'm a 34 woman, read Watchmen in my 20s, and my reaction to the trailer was the same "nerdgasm" reaction I've just seen in all these posts. Oddly, this is the only film that I've had that particular reaction to, and the only one where I've seen everyone else using the same orgasm/boner wording in such abundance.

But yeah, no idea how the youngs are going to react.

GirlWithTheMostCake