God, ok, ok. The rest of the movie can’t be like this. We will give “Watchmen” the benefit of the doubt, but this is… ugh. It’s the prison sequence with Tyler Bates’ really bad techno-metal score. We hear it’s not all like that and the film give purposeful sonic homages and cues to the Batman series, Blade Runner, etc. etc., which is pretty cool, but this scene? Yikes. Keep it mind, it will give an erection to some people, but to any half-discerning movie fan one has to think: ok, this is a fight sequence, there’s better stuff.
And to prove that point and to convey, we’re not simply haters. The 20-minute opening and two minute scene we saw at Comicon New York had nothing in it this cringe-worthy at all. In fact, the Rorschach prison scene was admittedly, pretty impressive and conveyed a lot about his character. If Alan Moore saw this scene he would die in his tracks its absolutely,incontestably not in the spirit of “Watchmen” whatsoever.
Wow. I LOVE the Watchmen graphic novel and that did not look even remotely entertaining.
I’m honestly still willing to give it a chance, but i would love any Watchmen fan to tell me how in blazes that shit is in the spirit of Alan Moore’s comic at all? Sometimes i think Geek bloggers — who are already raving about it — are tone and feeling-challenged.
Sure it might look exactly like the comics, but if the tone is all wrong, what good does it do?
Yes, that was bad. U want fight scenes in this style but good…watch Blade II. Not saying it also isn’t without it faults, but this was just boring. I love how the dude in the front is dispatching of all the guys coming at him, but then when they cut to the woman 15 feet behind him, she’s fighting oncoming guys too, when it never shows any guys get past the front guy. Maybe they’re coming out from the cells between them, but it doesn’t appear as they are. If that was the case, they should let her pass them, and then attack her from behind. I hate poorly choregraphed and inconsistent fight scenes.
Ok that sucked.
I’ve been holding out hope for this movie for a loooong time, but my faith is beginning to be shattered.
Someone restore my faith.
Maybe in the context it’s meant to be ridiculous and over the top, and is contrasted with a somber, quiet moment. Snyder mentioned how this film was, in a way, supposed to be taking a piss at the superhero film genre, so that would make sense.
it didn’t ‘kinda suck’, it flat out sucked. dear god was that cheesy and just plain dumb.
@Zack. Just trying to be fair, most people call us Watchmen haters, so we have to try and balance, but honestly i do no have much hope for this film at all.
Hahaha Its like Power Rangers but with more money.
this clip makes it looks so cheap, like a tv movie or something. not sure what, bad lighting? bad camera angles? ugh!
I’m not going to watch it because I’m the one kid in the world who isn’t into Watchmen, but the still from the video looks like one of those cheap youtube parodies of the cell scene between Batman and Joker in TDK.
It looks like they choreographed it for the start-stop slo-mo but didn’t do enough start-stop slo-mo to cover up all the pulled punches.
Also, am I the only one who felt that this scene was very obviously inspired by the hallway fight scene in Oldboy? Only executed very poorly.
The ads got me hyped but I’m just as skeptical as ever. Maybe Alan Moore’s imagination should stay on the page.
To be completely fair to a movie some are claiming we’re not being fair to at all: an acquaintance of ours saw it and says the movie vacillates between this nonsense and deep character study stuff, so maybe half of it is at least good?
To be completely fair, Zack Snyder is a dunce and what people like us say don’t matter because the same geeks that loved “Wanted” will make this a hit, whether the movie deserves it or not.