Cool viral video for Watchmen.

[Forkboy]

http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/new-watchmen-viral-video-warns-heroes-are-outlaws.php#more

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. Thanks!

The Watchmen is my all-time favorite comic series. Can't wait for the movie (although I'm sure to be disappointed).

[exboyfil]

2. Hope we are not disapointed

It appears to be strongly following the theme of the graphic series. I understand that reworked the ending, but in some ways that is a good thing because we may be surprised.

Try to enjoy the movie as a movie and not as a completely faithful representation of the book. I used to get hung up about that, but I have learned to give the film makers some slack (witness Lord of the Rings). Movies are rarely as good as the books, but sometimes you can be surprised (for example Bladerunner is superior to the Dick novellette). The Joker in The Dark Knight was not a faithful representation of the character in the series, but Ledger captured the spirit of the Joker completely.

Even with its limitations I found Greystoke to be a relatively faithful (at least in spirit) of Tarzan. The first two Spider-Man movies took liberties with the actual story (in particular the character of Doc Ock who I found superior in the movie to the comic), and the fact that the Green Goblin did not kill Gwen Stacy (a pivotal point in the Spider-Man comics) that could have been captured in the third movie but was not (lets forget the third movie if we can).

How Phoenix became Phoenix is different in the X-Men movies (again I only consider the first two good).

I would argue both versions of The Thing were superior to Campbell's story.

Jaws took liberties with the story, and I think it sufferred from that (Hooper should have died as well, but I am glad we did without the Mrs. Brody/Hooper affair)

[mackerel]

3. It will have to be at a 3 hour film if they want to get it right.

[Forkboy]

4. Right now it's just under 3 hours.

2 hours and 45 minutes. The director's cut will be over 3 hours long.