Watchmen Exclusive
It is funny that this is on MySpace, a News Corp business. But it is not remotely surprising. Trailer Park on MySpace has the younger traffic that Watchmen seeks. Marketing is marketing is marketing. Strange bedfellows and all that.
Anyway... I must admit... the extended view, coming a few days after I devoured the hardback of Watchmen - my fourth or fifth reading - is a little dissapointing. It looks amazing visually, but more Sin City than the flawed, but deeper images of Gilliam or Burton. Matthew Goode seems like the one casting mistake... which is probably why he hasn't been talked about much. But it feels like it might be a symbol of what could be a problem with the film... all the visuals... no depth. And that would be a shame, even if it will also be a powerful experience. The lesson of The Dark Knight is not that bigger is better, but that giving the audience what it feels to be more depth counts for more than a little.
Still, $500 million worldwide seems uunavoidable for the spectacle alone.
Anyway... take a look... happy new years!
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