Mar 6 2008'Watchmen' Costumes Revealed, Mostly

Actually, the Ozymandias costume does feature nipples...

Sorry, I'm having a horrible Batman & Robin flashback here.

Anyway, I can live with it here, because he's supposed to be a narcissistic prick anyway.

I can only really complain about Ozymandias, other than that it all looks fine. The costumes were never really going to be the hard part though.

The costumes are not my biggest concern. Not by a long shot. I want to make sure Rorschach looks like the twisted Opie Cunningham from the graphic novel once he gets de-masked. It's the story that concerns me most.

Oh god...Rorschach looks fucking AWESOME.

Yeah, because a trench coat and fedora are real fucking hard to get right.

This will end up being an overrated fanboy movie adaptation of an overrated fanboy graphic novel that no one will care about 6 weeks after it is out.

Andy, while you are posting your comment here your mother's cock goes unsucked.

Ted, you fail at biology and at being clever. That surprises me what with your passion over The Watchmen you must be a huge hit with the ladies.

I like everyone except Ozymandias, he looks really bad. Very Batman and Robin like. Can't wait to see how they handle Rorschach's face

I'm getting more worried that's its going to have the same visual style as 300 (washed out bleach bypass look) which would be kind of over the top for the story. These stills just ooze action movie, but maybe he's trying to entice a general audience who doesn't know the source, or really get what alan moore was saying in the book in the first place.

Now somebody's gotta steal the Silver Surfer costume, paint it blue and viola!....Dr. Manhattan.
(and this time let Doug Jones speak! That poor guy gets ripped off in every movie!)

I was going to say: "Isn't that the Batman Costume?" until I noticed the "ears" were placed a little differently. Yeah, so it's totally original now.

I'm not impressed with them. They're too derivative of stuff you see in superhero movies nowadays. They don't look very practical.

Man, I can't even believe that's Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the Comedian - he looks fucking awesome! As does Rorschach, of course. I'm still really curious to see how they're going to animate his face though. SO EXCITED!

Watchmen by no mean is an overrated fan boy graphic novel.

As far as the movie version goes, we'll see.

these costumes are horribly over the top - another comic book movie ruined.
thanks for the photos - i won't have to bother spending time wondering if this would be a movie worth watching! =)

For the record, there's nothing overrated about "Watchmen", fanboy or not.
Get your head out of your ass!!!

Will it bet better than Wanted? Yes.
Wolverine? Oh god yes.
Will it be, by any means, good? Probably not.
Average? Maybe.

Do I give a shit? No.

as disappointed as i always usually am - i'll still end up watching it at some point

rorschach looks great...i was curious about how his mask would translate to live action but i really like this!

Wow. Looks exactly like Batman, but with more copper tubing.

I must admit I don't understand why every female superhero insists on wearing spike-heeled boots to work. Sooner or later someone's going to snap an ankle, is all I'm saying.

Are we using the term superhero here loosely? I mean Superman versus these guys? Shall we get into a debate if mutants/aliens with actual powers that allow them to defy gravity and shoot lazers from their eyes are REAL superheros versus common people with a lot of gusto who want to dress up like them?

Too bad Ozymandias doesn't have the look of antiquity he has in the comic. I thought the gold and purple worked beautifully there.

In this plastic version, he looks more "modern," though the pharaoh probably means they haven't changed his story.

Everything looks amazing, even though I can't imagine how the public will react to this movie. (Especially with the pirate stuff apparently still in it??)

As Snyder said previously, like the graphic novel was a parody/commentary on superhero stories at the time, the film is going to do the same with superhero movies. The rubber nipples are obviously a take on Schumachers piece of trash Batman and Robin, and what better character to use than Ozymandias, the epitome of vanity and self indulgence.

The only other complaint I had at first was Nite Owl, but then I compared it to a frame in the novel and they are pretty damn close, mind you the lighting is darker so his suit appears a darker brown than it actually is and probably will be in the film. That costume is obviously a take on Nolan's Batman.

So, really this movie is supposed to be over the top, as the novel was, for it is commenting on the over the top characters of the time.

This thread delivers!!

Watchmen is the very definition of overrated.

It was a terrible story then, it remains a terrible story now. It is perhaps second only to The Dark Knight Returns in terms of just how overrated it is.

There were better stories before, there have been better stories since. Debate over.

As far as the costumes go, they're surprisingly faithful, with Ozy being the worst. Hello Batman & Robin, we've missed your nipples. Comedian and Owl Man are my favs. Rorschach, as expected, is a guy in a trench coat and fedora. Kinda dull, but then again, what can you expect given the source material?

I like the movie

You guys, check this out!!! OMG!!!

http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/watchmenposter.jpg

Steam punk Batman, the Blank got a much-needed tattoo, Magneto's gay son, the Phantom Lady's still a slut, post-apocalyptic Hamburglar.

They Should Change the Story, because there is nothing new in these characters,you know! Batman,Spiderman,Superman,Daredevil,Electra,Hellboy,Ironman! they're all super heroes that they face a bad boy and at the end they will kill that bad boy! all of them with a bad times in their lifes! and their enemies are a little bit stronger! i think they must do something new with new storyline! it doesn't work anymore!

'Watchmen' the graphic novel is the very definition of overrated? Terrible story??

Any text following those comments is immediately rendered suspect.

Absolutely fucking horrible, but otherwise to be expected from a director that couldn’t even handle adapting a relatively simple story like 300, let alone something like WATCHMEN which cannot be successfully adapted into anything less than a 12 hour HBO series.

First and fundamental problem: WATCHMEN is not a superhero story. It is about ex-Costumes Vigilantes and how ridiculous it was that these characters once, in their youth, dressed up in spandex and masks to fight crime. The comic book looks on this as one might look upon their old high school yearbook photos: Silly clothing and bad hairstyle, but what did I know at that time?

The fact that Zack Snyder is trying to make these costumes “cool” shows his complete misunderstanding of the source material.

There is only one “super” character in the story: Doctor Manhattan, and he is treated as a freakish anomaly that is kept out of sight for decades, as such a character would in the real world. He is, like the atomic bomb, something that the world wishes it could un-invent.

Having read the graphic novel about twenty times (more-or-less once a year since it was published), I can attest that everything that makes the book exceptional will be deleted from any two or three hour movie adaptation , and everything left will be the genre crap that the story was superficially encased in. The only way to escape this is to considerably downplay the costumes, as the only one who still wears one is a psychopath.

This is why movies suck. Attempting to adapt superior material, rather than something original, just shows the weakness of the medium, rather than playing to its strengths.

i've also read the graphic novel a few times and i loved it, but guess what; i want to see a movie version now.
if you don't like that, then don't see it. I, for on, am extremely interested in how Snyder handles it all, especially my favorite scene with Dr. manhattan when he's chronicalling his life through his own disordered (or ordered?) viewpoint. A really engaging part of text that seems that it would be difficult to capture correctly on film, but that's all part of the allure, isn't it?

Leif Jones, you're pretty much right on target.

Watchmen was the closest look that's ever been taken into what motivates men and women to fight crime individually, gaudy costume or not. Whether for reasons involving pride, sexuality, sociopathy, or violence, most of the time it isn't simply a desire to do what's right.

The climax of the story - the irony of the particular individual who did solely want to do what's right and the irony of the actions they took to bring it about - simply will not translate in 2008. Unless that is successfully modified in a way that will still bring the impact it brought in the late 1980s when this story was written/published, I believe many people who hear/see the story for the first time upon seeing this movie will be disappointed.

I apologize for sounding so vague, but I don't want to blantantly 'give away' the story's ending.

Nite Owl dosent look very....Owl-y. He looked a lot more bird-like in the graphic novel. He's looking a little generic here......

"post-apocalyptic Hamburglar"
I lol'd.

i wonder if rorschach's mask will change from scene to scene like in the comics... that would be very anal, yet authentic!

These look pretty good, especially the Comedian. *SPOILER* Ozymandias looks too overtly evil, though. In the comic it's not explicitly revealed that Ozymandias is the villain until more than halfway through the story (it's hinted at earlier, but not revealed).

* Meh, they don't look old timey enough. I think the costumes should be primarily spandex.
* I'll bet they forget about the whole sideplot with the kid reading the comic, and the lesbian cab driver who beats her girlfriend and all that.

I know I'm gonna take flak for this, but I was never all that impressed with Watchmen. I'm not gonna say it was overrated crap because, at the very least, there's no need to slam a comic that a lot of you love. I will, however, say that in my personal opinion Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns for that matter, are left in the literary and artistic dust by Kingdom Come. Watchmen was at heart nothing more than a parody and in my view parodies are a dime a dozen. Yes, it was a well-crafted parody, but so was Spaceballs and no one gets this stupid over Lord Dark Helmet.

This movie, by virtue of time constraints if nothing else, will suck. A three (or four, or five) hour movie just can't do justice to any multi-issue comic book story arc like Watchmen. At the absolute BEST it will turn out as an incoherent, badly-butchered homage to the source material much like David Lynch's Dune.

I think (err... hopefully) that the costumes are to look super hero-y to the point of them being a large parody. I'm certain that the director and producers have no urge to read the book and draw inspiration, or even interpret the work, but, I'm hoping that the costumes prove themselves the parody they were meant to be.

Ozimyndas looks plain corny, rorschach looks like a midget.

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They all look pretty good. Except The Comedians hair look pretty bad on Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Make is less...fro-like.

Why are so many people bitching about the costumes? You can not market spandex too today's average american. They like flashy, shiny things that grab their attention. They are not making this movie for one whiny little fan boy, they're making it for average america. Sad, but true.

And they will not be ignoring the black freighter sub plot. Gerard Butler is involved in it.

Although the costume looks pretty good, i seriously doubt that the movie can capture the whole essence of the comics.

I'm at least hoping that it could capture some of its depth and not make this movie a hollywood hit that comprises nothing but a lot of crap that make the average man watch it over and over again

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I don't fucking care man, I need my fix! *humps laptop wildly* Oooooh LCDs! Rorsie looks so fucking hot i literally shat flaming magma from my ears when I saw him. Can't wait for this movie and I will pray every night its not a total fuckup.

_Loks

I wasn't too impressed with the costumes. Of course they are derivative, of other superheros, because Watchmen was derivative. There, I said it.

It wasn't that original a story. Heck the same basic plot point was in some 1950s Sci-Fi short story I read when I was a kid in the library. Watchmen really won't work outside the Cold War setting. No one is afraid of Global Nuclear War now. They're afraid of Tribes With Nukes killing a few cities, particularly one they're in.

That whole plot point just won't work. People will go "huh?"

I find it funny that people are in this thread to say it's overrated and mention something either worse or also overrated. Do agree with Kingdom Come as and artistically better book (Alex Ross vs Dave Gibbons?) but most things involving DC's holy trinity usually only work for people who love them already.

You really can't win with some of these costumes because... they looked odd, out of place or just outright wrong in print. They are close as can be expected though so I could really care less. Plot wise I'm afraid to even know. If I could watch the movie and never stumble upon it would be perfect. Is it a side story? the beginning? Cannot be the end, so what?

Finally for the first time we can get to buy the Watchmen Costumes for Halloween, im looking forward to get into the the Silk Spectre Costume, I saw it here and i think they have all the available costumes for the characters on their site at, http://www.easterntoys.com/Watchmen-Adult-Costumes-s/376.htm