While the opinions on Watchmen have been decisively split down the middle, I think one thing we can all agree on the is the excellent opening credit sequence that plays over Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” The company who created those credits, yU+Co, have made it available online to view in glorious quicktime. Cheers to to the folks at CHUD for the heads up.
To be honest, this was one of the only sequences where a pop song worked perfectly. One of my major gripes with this film is that a lot of the choices of music feel completely out of place.
Check out the video after the cut below which I’ve embedded. My post seems to cut off some of the video size, so I have it set to auto-play.
Update: I think the video has been taken down. Sorry, folks.
This is a newscast from the Watchmen universe. I absolutely love that shot of Manhattan taking a photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon. Nothing more to add, really. Carry on, folks!
Last week a new Watchmen trailer made its debut on some lame Spike TV award show, but the youtube footage was of terrible quality and wasn’t really worth posting about. That being said, the trailer has been released in glorious quicktime and here it is just in case you happened to miss it. It’s basically very similar to the very first trailer, with many of the same shots played alongside that song from Smashing Pumpkins. Scattered throughout are some new scenes, like Nite Owl and Silk Spectre kissing in front of a mushroom cloud and Dr. Manhattan disassembling a tank (though the cg is a bit rough).
Changed ending or not, it’s obvious that Zach Snyder has nailed the visuals. I especially love the shot at the end of the bloody button slowly falling. Hopefully we’ll get to see some footage of actual dialogue exchanged soon, because that’s probably the next thing with what fans would like to see. Hit the link at the cut to watch the trailer.
Teaser poster, though? It’s a bit weak…
MP3:Smashing Pumpkins :: “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning”
Click the image above to watch this thing of beauty. The late-era Smashing Pumpkins that plays over the trailer works surprisingly well. Too bad the same song was used in Batman and Robin. Hopefully this film doesn’t meet a similar fate! Man, 2009 can’t come soon enough!
*Update* Apple has the trailer up in glorious quicktime!
Just small post before I head to bed tonight as there appears to be some buzz over the image that was discovered on an extended trailer of 300 (which I will be seeing later tonight). For those who haven’t been keeping up much with the development of Watchmen, the graphic novel by Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, From Hell) which is considered by many the greatest ever written. It’s been in the works for several years while under the supervision of many different directors, but currently is set to be the next project of 300 director Zach Snyder.
The image in question is at the 1:52 mark during this trailer and there you have for a split second (I had to pause it to catch it for myself) an image of Rorschach from Watchmen. I’ve never read Watchmen myself, but i’ve started to develop a major interest in graphic novels all together so i’ll be sure to check this out for myself sometime in the coming months. So is the image a fake? For the most part it’s the real deal from what i’ve read, as there’s been confirmation on Ain’t it Cool and CHUD that it’s a test image and not a final still. Regardless, I still think it’s a nice touch to add that in there as it’ll just heighten the anticipation of the development of this project.
Do check it out anyways just because this uncut and extended trailer of 300 will be a taste of what you can expect as it the film ust opened nationwide today. If you’re not familiar, it’s based off the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City). Most people are crying foul because it looks historically inaccurate, but insane because it’s not supposed to be as its’ a stylized version of the Battle of Thermopylae by Frank Miller. Plus I want to be entertained, not learn about historical facts so count on me being there tonight watching this. If you were wondering what the music was to that trailer, it’s a track from Nine Inch Nails.
Last week a new Watchmen trailer made its debut on some lame Spike TV award show, but the youtube footage was of terrible quality and wasn’t really worth posting about. That being said, the trailer has been released in glorious 
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