EXCELLENT. I am so stoked for this flick.

P.S. Nuts to all who hate Take a Bow.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

DUDE,

a) koyaanisqatsi?!

b) koyaanisqatsi transitioning to muse?!

c) koyaanisqatsi? Philip Glass koyaanisqatsi? still shocked they used it for the trailer.

zamafir

@safaribob: Yeah, this looks like Elaine taped it in a theater...

cpthook

Wish we had a high quality version of this trailer...

safaribob

HAHAHAHAHAHA they put him in a bikini? That's the most ridiculous effing thing i've ever seen. for shame!

cpthook

@wbfisher: Take a Bow is fucking terrible though :\

Lightman

Muse in the trailer FTW

wbfisher

@hoffmanbike: no really... meh...

hoffmanbike

@Dudemeister on the Run: Not to mention the whole "re-arranging matter at whim" thing he's got goin' on.

:P

Lightman

meh...

hoffmanbike

he's got a 10 pack going...i think that makes up for the lack of his smurfhood.

Dudemeister on the Run

No smurf penis. Damn.

Unknown2U

:( No man meat? I'm clearly upset...this movie's gonna kick ass.

DigitalSciGuy

He actually does wear clothes throughout the comic book. He wears less and less as the story progresses, which symbolizes the continuing loss of his humanity.

Or something :P

Lightman

@Lightman: lol. I actually love both Futurism and Dead Star, but I happen to love Take a Bow as well, though Knights of Cydonia will always be my favorite from that album.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

its so squished :(

drtaru

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: :(

Lightman

@Lightman: Nuts I say!

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

Every time they release a new trailer I want to wait THAT much longer to pre-order tickets. Also, I LOVE Take A Bow. I used to hold the casual global high score for it on Audiosurf. Ha ha.

Also, Manhattan did wear clothes in the book when the media or government wanted him too. If the man who controls atoms and molecules wants to be naked, then he gets to be naked.

Krustoff

Looking forward to this movie. I'm just afraid it looks like Dr. Manhattan is more of a superhero and less like a powerful observer - seeing as he maintained his helplessness to do anything in the comic.

Boba.Fett

@safaribob: whups forgot to mention, I also don't like rorschach's voice... too christian bale batman-ey

safaribob

@cpthook: found it! [movies.yahoo.com]

safaribob

d) Koyaani-freakin'-sqatsi??!?

(Mental worlds collide, asplode)

Namarrgon

Umm, HELLO? My face is up here!

(things overheard when Elaine met the good doctor)

Andyr2120

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Psh, go listen to Futurism or Dead Star and tell me if Take a Bow holds a candle to their earlier stuff :P

Lightman

@cpthook: He DOES wear a banana hammock in that part of the storyline. Part of his uniform in his early days as a superhero

beanPirate

Non-squashed trailer here: [movies.yahoo.com]

sorensilk

@smackeh: bluwang on Mars, no less :D

Lightman

It's true, he did wear clothes in the graphic novel, particularly that wonderful manthong that appears in the trailer. I also did find it hilarious that he got progressively more naked throughout novel's timeline, then before you knew it :: BLAM :: bluewang.

smackeh

I'm excited. The beginning looks sick.

aznxenocide

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Knights of Cydonia is pretty catchy, especially the live version on HAARP. In general though I wasn't a huge fan of Black Holes and Revelations--it's all about Origin of Symmetry for me :)

Lightman

i was expecting more package.

MaaseyRacer

@safaribob: totally agree there. It's like wtf? I imagined him to be more robotic and uncaring. John's voice is good though imo.

xashinx

This movie looks so dumb.

Sorry, but just because you can do tons of slow motion and slowly zoom in on people as they're talking in angry muppet voices doesn't mean it's good.

sam-i-am

@xashinx: I think Jon's could be a deeper, but to each his own. Except for Rorschach. Way too Bale Batman-ey

safaribob

@sorensilk:

Thanks. The squishiness was really bugging me.

kilde

<3

Me like

winsucker

I'm ready to eat this soundtrack right up as soon as it comes out though too.

B.Zanetti

I'm just glad it looks like they took the comic and said "here's our story board, and here's our script" then went and made the movie.

spider2544

Ah, I love Muse :)

Good choice in my opinion.

Pressure

@safaribob: You could just wait the 4 months for it to be in the theatres.

OMG! Ponies!

@safaribob: Exactly. Jon should sound more omnipotent and god-like.

Shak_0

Is The Moth in this one? Where's the Tick or American Maid?

LoganSix

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: It's a highly underrated Madonna song. One of her last good songs and the beginning of Madge as middle-aged woman.

OMG! Ponies!

so fucking awesome I goddamn can't wait for this bitching movie. penis.

feckineejit

@sam-i-am:

really? are you serious? this is going to kick so much ass that it will kick YOUR ass even if you DON'T go see it, which you WILL.

feckineejit

@safaribob: That is the way his voice is portraid in the book.

reddingofish

bringit bringit BRING IT!

strider_mt2k

2009 is shaping up to be a half way decent year for movies. It'll be great to be able to forget the 2nd Great Depression.

SgtBeavis

that trailer gave me chills. so good.
thanks for the upload, that made my day.

Ibelieveinsandwitches

@GTgeek: Is there some reason you can't read it now?

Brogen

@Googlemyname: If you bothered to read the comments that came before you you'd see you weren't the only one to notice it.

Brogen

Must read the graphic novel now.

RE-L

@Googlemyname: I did, lol.

RE-L

Sometimes I wish I was into comics growing up so I could know what this is about and could be excited about it. It still looks pretty cool so I'll go see it, but it would have been nice to read this years ago and look forward to the movie.

GTgeek

SO I guess Nobody else felt like Christian Bale as Batman is the narrator for this trailer???

Googlemyname

@Brogen: I thought about that, but I was being more general about reading comics growing up. There are a few movies that have come out based on graphic novels and comics that I didn't really know anything about and wish I had read before. The trailer for the movie "The Spirit" looks neat too but I've never heard of that. I guess I could go out and buy every graphic novel that comes out as a movie, but I just meant to say it would have been nice to grow up reading this sort of thing. It's never too late to start I suppose.

GTgeek

In the timeline of the story where that screenshot came from (slightly after Vietnam), Doctor Blue Glowie SHOULD be wearing a bikini. It's not an edit, it's true to the comic.

Illrigger

This movie looks... bad.
I'm assuming the graphics in the trailer are done, if they're willing to release it.
The graphics are terrible, most video games do better.
Rorschach's face is terrible.
Jessica's outfit was changed, and she's supposed to be in her 30's, not 22
Dan looks younger, and his outfit was also changed.
Jon sounds like a smurf, I mean for someone who's supposed to be omnipotent and whatnot, you'd think he wouldn't sound like a little whiny 20 year old.

I don't think this movie will be bad, but to whomever thinks it will be good, read the graphics novel and then when you'll see the movie... you'll realize how badly it was butchered. I mean, heck, the trailer says it doesn't follow the book. "Jon says there will be nuclear war" Jon tells Jessica that, but she doesn't tell anyone else, from what I've heard, the ending has also been changed to be more fan friendly.
I don't know how true that is but *Spoiler* they do show Rorschach's death in the trailer */Spoiler* I mean WTF, why would you put that in the trailer??

Poison_Shroom

@Googlemyname: There is a connection: Rorschach (the narrator in the trailer) is based on a Charlton/DC comics character named the Question. The Question used to hang out with Batman, and actually took over his role as protector of Gotham City for a little while :)

justin hileman

@Unknown2U: Up, and to the left [I can still see it]

trendspotter

@feckineejit: LMAO, hahaha funny

This movie looks sooooo sweet......!

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

OKAY, this seriously looks badass!!!!!!!

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

@feckineejit:

Read the graphic novel then tell me this will kick ass.

Poison_Shroom

@safaribob: Yeah, they should have had Woody Allen do the voice on a day when he's really winded and fidgety.

closhedbb

looks great, but after reading how they changed the ending, im a bit disappointed, kind of ruins alot.

krztov

This looks great to me, but I can't begin to imagine what all that imagery says to people who haven't read the book.

Tony Bullard

In another couple of months, all us dudes are going to be wearing blue banana hammocks.

Slartibartfast

@Poison_Shroom: I did and it will.

LazyPanda

@Lightman:
RTFGN!!! haha

wngchng87

Somehow the scenery and effects look good yet the costumes don't look above the quality of what you'd buy in a Halloween store.

Zlevee

@Poison_Shroom: you do realize that comics and movies are two completely different mediums and thus things have to been changed in translation, right? i think every single comic-based movie has proved that ten fold.

srdailey

@krztov:

Me too, but I bet they couldnt figure out a way to get all the squid/island/missing writer/et al stuff in and keep the running time under 5 hours.

Still, that disturbs the whole reasoning for why the comedian has to die to begin with, so...

I don't care, I just want to see the images translated to the screen.

pir8matt

@Poison_Shroom:

Who is this Jessica you're talking about? Did you think this was a trailer for a Roger Rabbit movie or something?

pir8matt

@mdedmon: You don't belong here...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Hmmm... Interesting, but what the heck is it? I've never heard of it. What's the movie about?

mdedmon

@DigitalSciGuy: This would be the point in the story when he still wears underwear. It's the group photo, and if you look at the posing of the group photo in the graphic novel, you will see he is wearing underwear.

JPropaganda

PHILIP GLASS F*CK YEAH!!!!!!!!!one11twothree

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@Lightman: Yup...Futurism, Sunburn, Bliss--their early stuff is tough to beat. Of their new music, my favorite would have to be Map of the Problematique. I would've loved to see that one in the trailer.

djkessler3

Philip Glass!!!! hell yes i love him. had the pleasure to meet him a couple of times too.

theorieofself

If you want the sound track look for Philip Glass (American Composer). The music that lasted about 70% of the trailer was from a truly revolutionary film made back in 1982 when it was a joke to be an environmentalist. The film was Koyanisqasti which in Hopi Indian chit chat means (life out of balance). I asw it at the Yale Movie House in New Haven, CT in 1982 during it's opening week debut. I walked in not knowing anything, got stuck in the first row becasue it was a packed house, and I left with my eyes wide open and my grey matter melting from my ears. It's not as cool now (I have it on DVD and try to get new generation to view it) becasue so many of the cool time lapse and other photographic effects done by Director Godfrey Reggio have been pirated over the years and now it seems commonplace. But the soundtrack to Koy is awesome and the transistion to Muse was fantastic.
If you like Glass, listen to Glassworks.

danrgleason

Who ever is in charge of choosing the music for the trailers is a bloody genius. They got it spot on with smashing pumpkins, and now muse? I think I'd rather watch the trailer then the movie now.

DrChaos

will see. oh, yes. will see.

Oldbrass

That's pretty sweet they got Christian Bale to do his Batman voice for Rorschach.

SatyaLelex

@B.Zanetti: I was thinking the same thing. I know nothing about these guys /embarrassed but radiohead is a good way to get me interested.

SeattleTed

@B.Zanetti: Good call, I'm not particulary interested in the Watchmen, but the soundtrack is making me want to see it.

Kaos78

@sam-i-am: I am excited for this but I do see your point the director does use slow motion way too much. Reminds me of the 300 parody in South Park.

Also I hear they change the ending.

taftsearlobe33

@GTgeek: I was in the same place as you - didn't really read comics growing up, but was really hyped about the trailer. So I picked up the novel . . . It's really a fantastic read, regardless of you history with comics. I'd say that if you were going to read just a few graphic novels, this should be at the top of the list. Along with The Preacher. And maybe Akira, but it's damn long.

alowishus

@Poison_Shroom: Oh hush.

alowishus

@wngchng87: ...I...have already?

Lightman

1. Oh my god, they used that awesome Muse song in the trailer. Sweet!

2. My favorite movie quote ever:
"The world will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I'll whisper... 'No'."

Eruanno

@bosspants:

+ Watch video

bosspants

GTA 4 trailer song?

bosspants

@Boba.Fett:
I don't really see that... but you could be right.

SamCity

@mdedmon:
It's only ten bucks on Amazon, I bought it. It was kinda neat.

SamCity

@SeattleTed:
It's not Radiohead... it's Muse.

They do sound a lot alike. I couldn't really tell which band was which on Muse's "Blackout" track.

Evil J

@Poison_Shroom: spoilerssssss they did NOT show R's death in that trailer /spoilersss

safaribob

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! ITS RATED R! DAMN IT! I WAS SO EXCITED!!!! DAMN IT! DAMN IT!

GiovannaLubnub

@GiovannaLubnub: Getting into "R" flicks as a minor was a piece of piss when I had to do it. I can't imagine much has changed. Hell, half the ticket sellers are minors themselves.

Killjoy

I watched this with my fiancee, and she said "that looks really dumb." I had to agree. I love the novel, and I'm very impressed at how they've recreated the panels as shots in the movie, but the movie looks dumb.

If the film in any way captures the intelligence of the novel, they left those parts out of the trailer. Turns out, if you take away all the stuff that makes Watchmen so smart, it looks pretty dumb. The irony!

Jesssssse