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LoL I just realizied the joke, my bad as I was reading page 52 I was thinking "dang it did I fall for it?" and it turned out I did..... :p
 
Whole commercial break during Fringe was a bunch of new footage. God that was amazing.

Can't believe we have to wait until April for new Fringe.. :(
 
Meier said:
Whole commercial break during Fringe was a bunch of new footage. God that was amazing.

Can't believe we have to wait until April for new Fringe.. :(
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What'd they show?
 
Meier said:
Whole commercial break during Fringe was a bunch of new footage. God that was amazing.

Can't believe we have to wait until April for new Fringe.. :(
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I think it was all the same footage they showed when the first Watchmen trailer first came out, nothing new. And yeah, sucks waiting for new episodes of Fringe.

I just convinced some friends to go see Watchmen, since they had no idea what it was. Hope it's a good movie for newcomers.
 
Jtwo said:
Ok. The Motion Comic is AMAZING.
I liked the book enough, but it was kinda hard for me to really understand since I've never read comics. But damn, This is so fucking awesome. The animation is incredible too! I never even knew they could do something like this with the comics.
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Yea ep 11 was freaking awesome i can't wait to watch the next one.
 
Masenkame said:
I think it was all the same footage they showed when the first Watchmen trailer first came out, nothing new. And yeah, sucks waiting for new episodes of Fringe.
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Really? Obviously the scene of the Comedian was old, but a bunch of it seemed new. They've been showing footage for so long that I might have just forgot it though. :lol
 
Meier said:
Really? Obviously the scene of the Comedian was old, but a bunch of it seemed new. They've been showing footage for so long that I might have just forgot it though. :lol
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It all looked like old footage to me, maybe they added some extra stuff I didn't catch. That whole commercial break was all footage of Watchmen, which is cool as Fringe has short commercial breaks.
 
Meier said:
Really? Obviously the scene of the Comedian was old, but a bunch of it seemed new. They've been showing footage for so long that I might have just forgot it though. :lol
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Nah, there was definitely some new footage in there. Nothing huge, but some cool stuff in there.
 
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http://www.organiccoffee.com/Nite-Owl-Dark-Roast/M/B001O2KSZA.htm :D
 
What's funny/ironic is how a comic with themes of rape, seething hate, and dirty underground culture seems to have penetrated the mainstream. My friend told me about his preacher saying he was excited about seeing it. :lol


P.S. Carla Gugino is soooo sexyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyfuck.
 
i wonder what the new york times has up its ass where zack snyder is concerned? do they write articles like this about all directors who get hype from studios? what the fuck?

Is Zack Snyder a 'Visionary?' See for Yourself In his 2 Films

Marketers at Warner Brothers may have set a new standard on stretching the truth by heaping an unusual amount of praise on the director of the forthcoming superhero film “Watchmen.”

Billboards for “Watchmen” are causing some double takes in Hollywood because they call the director, Zack Snyder, a highly regarded but relatively inexperienced filmmaker, a “visionary director” above the title of the film.

Mr. Snyder’s pre-“Watchmen” résumé consists of two movies. The first was “Dawn of the Dead,” a 2004 remake of the 1978 film about flesh-eating zombies in a mall. It sold a respectable $59 million in tickets at theaters. His other film, the visually stunning mock-historical “300,” was a smash in 2006, selling $211 million in tickets at domestic theaters.

People have been debating the “visionary” label online since December, when Warner Brothers used the adjective in a trailer. Wired magazine called “such hyperbole” a sign “that ‘Watchmen’ may not have the goods.” Comments on sites like I Watch Stuff have been even less kind.

A Warner Brothers spokeswoman declined to comment.

The studio — which was recently forced to share revenue from “Watchmen” with 20th Century Fox after losing a copyright dispute — is betting big on Mr. Snyder in part because the movie, due out in March, lacks star appeal. (With Billy Crudup the biggest name in the cast, Warner has featured Mr. Snyder in television ads as well.)

By publicly crowning the affable Mr. Snyder a visionary, Warner may have hurt its own cause in one regard: His agents at the powerful Creative Artists Agency certainly have a new angle to work in future salary negotiations with the studio.
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hard-hitting journalism here. better take that egotistical zack snyder down a notch.
 
Jtwo said:
Ok. The Motion Comic is AMAZING.
I liked the book enough, but it was kinda hard for me to really understand since I've never read comics. But damn, This is so fucking awesome. The animation is incredible too! I never even knew they could do something like this with the comics.
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I'm going through the episodes as well, it's very impressive and not at all cheesy as I feared animated comics would be.
 
beelzebozo said:
i wonder what the new york times has up its ass where zack snyder is concerned? do they write articles like this about all directors who get hype from studios? what the fuck?

Is Zack Snyder a 'Visionary?' See for Yourself In his 2 Films



hard-hitting journalism here. better take that egotistical zack snyder down a notch.
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Slow news day? Didn't someone bring this up earlier in the thread? Maybe it's the same guy. :P
 
I think Snyder deserves most of the praise he gets.
No doubt the "visionary" tagline is just something for marketing purposes.
 
certainly the "visionary" thing seems over the top and obviously manufactured by p.r., but this is a graphic novel that many deemed "unfilmable" by most standards that--at least from what we can gather from trailers and (more importantly) early impressions by critics--is turning out great, largely because of snyder's involvement. there's more reason to presume he deserves some credit for the ambition of the undertaking than to think they need to knock him down a peg. he always seems like a pretty humble guy in interviews, to top all that off.
 
Jtwo said:
I think Snyder deserves most of the praise he gets.
No doubt the "visionary" tagline is just something for marketing purposes.
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Pretty much. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of language FOX uses to describe James Cameron when the AVATAR trailer finally comes out.
 
Busty said:
Pretty much. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of language FOX uses to describe James Cameron when the AVATAR trailer finally comes out.
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"The directing mind of our generation brings you a new take on the generic Science Fiction Films. Welcome to AVATAR. Welcome to The Third Dimension of Film."
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Hey, man, it's just me. BenjaminBirdie, visionary poster of threads like LOST 05.05: "This Place Is Death".
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITS BENJAMIN BIRDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If you excuse me Im going to shower.
 
Buttonbasher said:
"The directing mind of our generation brings you a new take on the generic Science Fiction Films. Welcome to AVATAR. Welcome to The Third Dimension of Film."
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James Cameron is a visionary though. BTW I will remember you when AVATAR does come out.
 
jett said:
Sorry buddy but calling Slowmo Snyder a "visionary director" is pretty stupid.
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Yeah, it's a bit early in Snyder's career for anybody to make that claim, but his point is that it would seem like the New York Times would have better things to do than criticize a MARKETING campaign of all things; the whole point of marketing is that you hype things up to seem great.
 
There is a press blackout on reviewing the Watchmen movie until March 6. However, I've seen the movie, and I'm not press. Don't worry, I'm not going to write a review of Watchmen. What I am going to write about is the emotional experience of seeing a piece of literature with which I have an intense personal connection LITERALLY COME TO LIFE. It's a serious freak-out.

I'm not alone in having bonded with the Watchmen comic book back when it was first published. But in 1986, I sure felt like I was. Barely anyone in my high school even knew who Wolverine was, let alone Rorschach. Gradually, however, the awareness of the Watchmen graphic novel has spread from a small group of comic book readers to become a major cultural touchstone for an entire generation. It's the common ground uniting almost everyone in my creative community. And now it EXISTS.

I'm not allowed to talk details, but let's just say it is astounding how much of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel is in this movie. (Really, the absence of Alan Moore's name on this is like Stan Lee's being missing from Spider-Man, because 95 percent of the words and ideas in this movie are all Moore.) Has there ever been a movie adaptation of a comic book (or book book) this close to its source material? Probably the two Frank Miller movies, Sin City and 300. But, while awesome, Frank Miller's comics didn't solve my Rubik's Cube of a 1980s teenage heart every single time I re-read them the way Moore's and Gibbons' did.

Sitting in that screening room and watching the visual world of the Watchmen movie unfold was one of the most powerful experiences I've ever had. Not film experiences. Just EXPERIENCES. I don't think I realized how close I was to the original book until I saw such a loving, detail-rich, almost obsessive recreation of that universe. It had my heart pounding and head swimming. I barely slept that night. Someone took the most special personal thing of my adolescence and put it on a movie screen. That doesn't happen every day.

What will people who've never read Watchmen even think of this film? What will it be like for them to sit through these crazy, violent, colorful three hours and not recognize almost every line – almost every image? Will they be utterly baffled, bored, or totally love it? Is Watchmen even a good or bad movie? I have no idea. I stand powerless before the Gods I once worshiped in my attic bedroom, now moving and talking and fighting and loving on a giant screen. And I find myself unable to judge them.

For me, and I suspect many others, the movie won't provoke the feeling you get from seeing a great movie, (which Watchmen very well may be). For me, Watchmen isn't a movie at all. It's a surreal mind-trip the likes of which my 14-year-old self would never have believed. Now, the special thing that still feels like only I know about has been given to the whole world. I hope they like it.
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http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/2009/02/16/my-own-private-watchmen/
 
You you guys actually think Snyder requested that he be advertised as a 'visionary'?

He seems like a really down-to-earth guy to me, who genuinely cares about making the best possible adaptation of Watchmen possible.
 
Truant said:
You you guys actually think Snyder requested that he be advertised as a 'visionary'?

He seems like a really down-to-earth guy to me, who genuinely cares about making the best possible adaptation of Watchmen possible.
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exactly why i took such umbrage with the article. it seems like an attack on snyder, who likely had nothing to do with wb's marketing campaign. low blow, imo.
 
DanielPlainview said:
I just got a notice that tickets are available in my area. I'm debating whether to go to IMAX or not for the first showing. Are you guys?
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That's what I'm currently trying to decide.
 
I suppose I need to admit something here. I've never been to an IMAX movie. Honestly, in my mind i picture this ginormous screen that could potentially detract from the experience.
 
Costanza said:
Why wouldn't you go to IMAX? It's obviously a superior way to watch the movie even if it's not natively filmed in IMAX.
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if you get a shitty seat with IMAX, the movie can be real hard to watch. getting there early is a must.
 
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