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• Holy shit, i'm watching the Watchmen! Looks great! Smashing Pumpkins too! Yay! : Snuffles-
• are they hosting the video themselves? I don't see it anywhere. : edgewise
• too much slow motion. : mindshot
• It plays before the Dark Knight bitches. : drbriefs
• I still cannot fathom how Watchmen can be condensed into a two hour'ish movie....but damn, that trailer h... : wretchedradio
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  I know nothing about the watchmen, so here are my impressions as a plebian. While I admire the fact that ... : Dynotaku
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    You won't get the story from looking at the trailer. I'd suggest reading the comic, comic books (includin... : qwpeoriu
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      Does it have any lots of humor? How does it compare to something like Civil War, which is the only co... : Dynotaku
      • lol @ comparison Watchmen is the Godfather to the Civil War's My Cousin Vinny : buzzbat
      • You can't compare it to any other mainstream comic book ever made. That's all. It's in a league of it's o... : NastyJack
      • Watchmen was written over 20 years ago with a theme that the US is close to a nuclear war with the Soviet... : MoreVespeneGas
  • The art is not impressive at all, but the story (awesome twist and ending), characters and character deve... : mnok
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    the story and the characters. That is why Watchmen is remarkable. : nomaad
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      It's too bad the trailer was just a bunch of explosions then. : Dynotaku
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        But it wasn't. I just watched it again and even the explosions they do show are direct results of the com... : NastyJack
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          Well too bad they didn't mention any of that in the trailer. Something like "There's one one superhum... : Dynotaku
          • Just trust us - it's a very complex tale that's practically impossible to sum up in 2 minutes. I'm not sa... : Conan
          • jesus christ please stop replying, you're breaking my heart. : sharpie
          • See the thing is everyone who has read it sees what those scenes are. I can recognize nearly every single... : NastyJack
  • The story couldn't possibly come across as amazing in a two-minute trailer, and I'm really worried that ... : sgtsanity
  • It's very well written for a comic. And yeah the costumes in this are dumb, I'm really not sure why t... : SpaecKow
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  What the fuck did I just watch? :( : pancake humper
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    Seriously? Have you ever read the comic? He really seems to have nailed it. : pigvomit
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      Nope, never read the comic. I read Wolverine/Ghost Rider/Spawn/Lobo when I was a kid :( : pancake humper
      • For this book that would be the equivalent to answering whether you've read Shakespeare with "No but I've... : NastyJack
      • Buy a copy, you'll love it. : Colleton
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        LOBO oh the memories... : mesabo
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          fanboy :( : pancake humper
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            Hey Lobo invented "Frag" =) : MoreVespeneGas
            • Frag was invented by soldiers in the army. To "Frag" someone is to "accidentally" drop a grenade into som... : thejay247
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  holy shit that looks better than I could have hoped. : nomaad
  • heldur betur : dael
• That is the perfect trailer. Not a spec of storyline, just pure eye candy of joy. : gakera
• oh my........ also they need to realease that version of The end is the beginning.... : shavenewok
• So awesome. Holy Fuck! : Colleton
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  what is the story behind this? I have not read the novel. : baconisgod
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    Superheroes as real people. Initially just people dressing up in outfits trying to do good, later on (in ... : crummynz
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      Also about the political fallout of having a real superman in your country. : Conan
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        Also the mindset of a man who can could probably destroy the world if he wanted to. Why should he care ab... : NastyJack
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          and a black kid reading a pirate comic book : AlexXdude
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            also blue dongs : CrazyPants
            • How the giant blue dong won the Vietnam war. : NastyJack
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  Whoa. I recognized virtually every frame of that. Spot-on, visually. : Conan
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    The scene in NightOwl's ship over the crowd and Rorschach improvising a flamethrower really stuck out when I saw them in this trailer. So excited to see it.

    Jul 17, 2008 6:10pm PDT
    The scene in NightOwl's ship over the crowd and Rorschach improvising a flamethrower really stuck out whe... : focusdaily
• wow... they just might pull it off... looks very faithful to the original : cap n KRUNCH
• Holy shit. That blows away any expectations I had for it. I NEED to see this. : Rauol Duke
• Looks awesome! Larry Fong is awesome! : Wheatloaf
• Owl needs to be pudgy :( : kikilupo
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  I heard they had changed the ending and I mean REALLY changed the ending. As in completely and utterly lo... : spdon
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    According to who? : Conan
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      Me, and I was just kidding. : SockMonkeh
      • This better not be some kind of double bluff....!!!! *Waves fist* : spdon
  • why did they HAVE to change it? : shavenewok
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16422169#itemanchor_16422169 : SockMonkeh
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    yeah they did in a leaked script like a year ago, it was pretty bad. we can only hope they didn't shoot t... : thebigbeefsandwhich
    • ugh. I hope not. that would ruin quite a bit of the film. : hamachi
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    I thought a few days ago I saw an article saying it was exactly the same. : crummynz
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      it is, the ending is the same as the graphic novel. : anthonybean
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        i wonder how many people will say it ripped off The Incredibles :( don't click spolier if you want to ... : shavenewok
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          probably the same amount of people that say that the warhammer fantasy / warhammer 40k games ripped off s... : Joseph
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            yeah but the group of peole that play warhammer and blizzard stuff and don't know about the other would b... : shavenewok
            • this is true. good point : Joseph
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  Up in HD here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/hd/ : Conan
  • Thanks! : Colleton
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  i assume the trailer is flash. so flash 9 is fucking broken for me and flash 10 is even worse now mother... : dantastic
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    Download VLC player. : NastyJack
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      and that plays flash content embedded into webpages? : dantastic
      • yes daniel : AlexXdude
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  Wasn't that Smashing Pumpkins song in the first half of the trailer used in the credits of Batman and Rob... : focusdaily
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    Yeah, that's "The End is the Beginning is the End." I really liked this slower version more. : wretchedradio
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      yeah you could actually hear the song over all the noise from the neon signs... : focusdaily
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        I wonder if this version has been commercially released? Maybe on an EP or a single? : wretchedradio
        • maybe it will be soon, but I have a feeling they might have scored it specifically for the trailer. : focusdaily
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  If I decided to buy the comic, which version would be the best to get There's the regular, hardcover, ... : Rag and Bone Man
  • The hardcover has a bunch of other art and concept stuff. The Absolute Edition apparently has some major ... : Dave-A
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    If you can find it, the Absolute Edition is a must own. It's fucking beautiful. : wretchedradio
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      I picked up a copy of the Absolute Batman: Hush, very impressed. The Watchmen edition has all its colors ... : focusdaily
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        Yup...I also own Absolute New Frontier which is a damn impressive piece of work too. DC's line of Absolut... : wretchedradio
        • do you have the urge to read yours with rubber gloves on? Finger smudges show up so well on the pages :( : focusdaily
  • Regular : crazywigga
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  that looks great. I don't know anything about Watchmen other than what I read on the wiki, and from what ... : steelsamurai
  • You really do need to read the comic to get it. The wiki doesn't really convey it. I read the wiki before... : SockMonkeh
• After viewing the trailer numerous times, I now don't know what I'm looking forward to more. The Dark Kni... : wretchedradio