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I'd just like to say that when I was a kid I never read comic books or graphic novels. I didn't understand them really, I just didn't know what they were. So when I approach a comic book movie I approach it more or less as a movie, along with anything I might happen to know or have heard about the comic or graphic novel on which it's based.
I love the teaser for Watchmen. I don't think it can be called a trailer because although it's trailer length, it doesn't tell us anything about what's in the film other than some people who can fly and glow. But I love its tone. The music works wonderfully, and more than anything, it makes me want to know what the hell is going on, which means it works.
However, I suspect that Zach Snyder, the 'visionary director of 300' as the teaser calls him, will give Watchmen a disappointing adaptation. I've never read 300, so I don't know how deeply it was about ideas and themes rather than exciting action, but as we know, the film of 300 was all about style over substance. And it kind of worked, although it was too long to keep itself going.
From what I hear about Watchmen there's an awful lot of pretty deep ideas and things in it that, should Snyder take the same approach with this project as he did with 300, will be discarded in favour of OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THE THING HAPPEN IN SUPER SLOW MOTION I NEARLY CAME.
So I'm skeptical.
But who knows. I'm not up enough on, or interested enough in, the graphic novel to get sanctimonious about it so let's see what the film's like.
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