Watchmen thoughts - spoiler heavy

[phaidros]

Watchmen was an interesting experience for me. Here we have a movie that instilled no confidence in me whatsoever that it could possibly be any good. The director seemed to be a hack, whose "remake the original with slavish lack of creative voice" approach is one I tend to hate (see the Harry Potter movies). The March release date, as opposed to

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[silas7]

An interesting side note: there is supposed to be a director's cute including 30-40 extra minutes of footage, including Hollis Mason's tragic end and more street level stuff.

There is also an animated feature made called "Tales of the Black Freighter" which is the comic-within-a-comic. There will late be an ultra super duper version of the film which works that animated feature into the main film.

So eventually, the film will have a stronger connection to the book (for good or for bad.)

[thefreak]

And the UNDER THE HOOD documentary is supposed to be included with the Black Freighter DVD.

[phaidros]

I'd heard about (and seen the trailer for) the Freighter stuff. I'm psyched for it, which is probably obvious from the tone of my post. I really am so surprised at my reaction -- not only did I like it, but I liked it for reasons that normally count as flaws for me. And even changes that I recognize completely miss the point and could ruin it for some people -- like making Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II nearly superhuman themselves and the whole handling of Ozzy from casting onward -- didn't bother me all that much.