The Watchmen Movie

[6souls]

This is old news, but around the same point that the film is being released 2 animated tie-in features will be released on DVD. "Tales of the Black Freighter" & "Under the Hood". And both will be included in the Ultimate Edt. of Watchmen once it is released on DVD. Gerard Butler (Leonidas in 300) has signed on as the voice of Captain.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1295071/

[6souls]

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the article that fueled the rumor that the ending has been changed can be found at this site'

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=61133

The Ending. If there is a weak element in Moore's almost flawless epic, it is the ending. It was a letdown when it came out, and it seems even cheesier 20-plus years later. Snyder has revealed that he's changing the ending. Now, when you take into account the fact that Moore is not involved in the project in any form, do we really believe Snyder and screenwriters David Hayter and Alex Tse have the chops to deliver the fitting end that Moore couldn't?

This was written on Oct. 9th. Two days earlier an article from MTV about Ozymandias' sexuality had this to say about the ending;

Right up there with the long-running debate over Ozymandias’ sexuality is the more recent question of how Snyder will depict the massive creature that factors into the closing chapters of the story. Although Goode said he had “no idea” how the beastie will appear on-screen, he assured fans it will look “as good as the cast you’ve already seen.”

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/07...-cgi-creatures

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By 'ending' I'm sure they mean the climax, surely. The ending takes place a while after squid-bomb.

[Kerberoz]

They'll probably still go with the alien thing, just not a giant exploding squid. Maybe some sort of exploding "spacecraft" instead. Gotta agree... the squid would put off a lot of viewers.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

They'll probably still go with the alien thing, just not a giant exploding squid. Maybe some sort of exploding "spacecraft" instead. Gotta agree... the squid would put off a lot of viewers.

That squid was freaking sweet. You have to give the psychic squid his props.

[Seraphise]

Its already been anounced what will replace books ending, I hope everyone goes back and spoiler's the comments, i'm sure some people still havn't read the book.

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Instead of a squid, there will be mass nuclear warfare hitting not only russia and usa, but many other countries

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Then how does Ozy make that so it unifies the world against a larger, external threat? The whole point of his 'how to save the world by killing half of new york' was to scare it into thinking global annihilation was out of the hands of anybody on earth and could not be combated by any nation alone.

[Seraphise]

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Then how does Ozy make that so it unifies the world against a larger, external threat? The whole point of his 'how to save the world by killing half of new york' was to scare it into thinking global annihilation was out of the hands of anybody on earth and could not be combated by any nation alone.

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thats exactly what i'm been struggling to understand.
Feel free to deny the article, http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/10/19/...nding-changed/
Kevin Smith also later said, "“It’s a little different. While it is a slight departure, it actually makes sense in the context of the story because it brings the characters back into it. It kind of makes the movie more about them by the end of it because of the switch they made. I would never say that Alan Moore fucked it up or something. I love the ending of the Watchmen comic book, but I think this ending works just as well.”"

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As long as they can make it look alien in nature and leave enough of a paper trail that Comedian can plausibly find it. Finding a huge psychic squid on a deserted island is probably easier for a commando in a plane than evidence of an 'explosion machine.'

[Kimiko]

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Clearly wearing armor, so that makes him Ozy. Just hard to tell where/when. Looks like he just pushed a button though.

Ok, that makes more sense now.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

This is just dumb. The whole point was that they would unite and it would stop a nuclear war. Fuck.

[Apelila]

Yeah doesn't everyone dying kind of ... I dont know, not make a good ending?

[Elesirdur]

Yeah doesn't everyone dying kind of ... I dont know, not make a good ending?

Well I think the point was that it took a catastrophe of such magnitude and the deaths of millions to make both sides see how destructive a war could be, even when just a fraction of the possible deaths were caused. The use of an "alien" being to cause the deaths was to prevent finger-pointing between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries.

However, this rumor about the event that precipitates the denouement in Antarctica seems really weird. Wouldn't it just drive the USA and USSR to a nuclear conflict instead of rendering aid to each other?

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The chief problem with the 'explosions all over the world' change is that there would be that in the book, when it was just New York getting cut in half, the sympathy was the catalyst driving the unity of the world. With everybody dying the movie will have to work very very hard to make us believe that the world's leaders will just say 'whoops, all our people are dead, WORLD PEACE NOW.'

Again though, if the threat is painted as a sufficiently alien attack, and not as just a bunch of bombs going off, it might not be that hard to change the catalyst from sympathy to pure fear.

[Isiolia]

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The chief problem with the 'explosions all over the world' change is that there would be that in the book, when it was just New York getting cut in half, the sympathy was the catalyst driving the unity of the world. With everybody dying the movie will have to work very very hard to make us believe that the world's leaders will just say 'whoops, all our people are dead, WORLD PEACE NOW.'

Again though, if the threat is painted as a sufficiently alien attack, and not as just a bunch of bombs going off, it might not be that hard to change the catalyst from sympathy to pure fear.

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It wasn't really sympathy though. Part of the "bomb" blasted psychic images that would influence those that were sensitive to them. Instead of sympathy, the idea was to generate paranoia and fear.

For the "realism" that Watchmen otherwise has, a giant squid bomb that freaks out psychics is somewhat of a stretch. If -everyone- gets hit with something at the same time, then it probably would seem like something from space, or another dimension.

[Elesirdur]

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It wasn't really sympathy though. Part of the "bomb" blasted psychic images that would influence those that were sensitive to them. Instead of sympathy, the idea was to generate paranoia and fear.

For the "realism" that Watchmen otherwise has, a giant squid bomb that freaks out psychics is somewhat of a stretch. If -everyone- gets hit with something at the same time, then it probably would seem like something from space, or another dimension.

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Hmm, the way I understood it from the comic was that everyone in New York was affected by the psychic bomb, but it was only people who were more attuned to the psychic energy (take that meaning as you will) who actually died.

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No, the psychic shockwave killed normal people and those it didn't kill it would drive insane with the fiction of an aggresive, evil race of aliens and their designs for our planet. That's why ozy had a whole island of writers and artists to create the world that would be programmed into the alien's brain when it 'popped' in NYC. That's what gave credible weight to the notion of an imminent alien invasion and spur the nations of the world to unite.

[Elesirdur]

Ah I see, I see. I was so excited to get to the end I kind of rushed the last few chapters, so I guess I missed the subtle undertext of the plan. That's what I get for borrowing the trade paperback from my girlfriend instead of buying it.

[Galkaeater]

maybe in the movie the bombs will have the same effect as the squid psychic explosion just minus the squid

[Kerberoz]

Full trailer + production pics

YouTube - *NEW* Watchmen - Official Theatrical Trailer *FULL*

Holy fucking shit.

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