Aug 7 2008'Watchmen' Video Blog Alleviates Concerns, Creates New Concerns

FIRST BITCHEZ

This makes me frown.

Haha, you're totally right. Zack Snyder seems likes a douche who just happens to be "a visionary director." And by visionary, we of course mean he's young and not really old.

yea he seems a bit of an odd character. anyone ever noticed he s also SO nervous and shy in interviews? like one of those child actors. its terrible, he mumbles really bad and starts to stutter.

reli wanna know what he's like on set. must b two completely different personalities.

Actually, I've seen him the past two years at Comic-Con, and he came across as anything BUT a douche. He was very self-deprecating, very humble, was totally appreciative of the insane fan boys, and came across as a dude that just wants to do cool shit, and really could care less about the attention. He actually kinda called out other directors for being douches.

So there.

Douche? Hardly. He just seems like a vaguely intelligent but socially awkward and sort of shy guy who doesn't know what to do about being called visionary.

That being said, when I asked him why he didn't make an owlship for me he was all, oh, hey, wtf did you get on set? Which wasn't a very nice answer at all.

I don't like him as a person or as a director, but he seems to have the right attitude for this. I'm not sure how Watchmen will turn out, but I'm hopeful.

i second the comic-con comment. he just comes off very nervous and shy. on the surface, he does seem like a douche, but there are a lot of intelligent people that don't come off as eloquent when put on the spot. and this is coming from a person who hated 300. from the previews, the vision and the way is shot is exactly how i imagined it; albeit the horrible casting of silk spectre and ozymandius, it looks great. Let's just hope there's not too much slow motion.

Visionary? He's made two movies. Two! I liked 300 all right, but Dawn of the Dead. Hahaha!

at the risk of sounding redundant. i agree that he just looks like a socially awkward, although relatively well groomed, comic book lovin' kinda dude. regardless of the way he talks 300 was executed really well and was a sweet movie that still managed to keep a comic feel. i think really the most important thing about him as a director is that he seems to understand how important it is the have an accurate portrayal of a comic without making it cheesy.
the casting director on the other hand... awkward choices.. especially for Rorschach and Laurie.

zack snyder may be nice, but he is a terrible director, i mean absolutely terrible. 300 made me want to vomit, was full of cgi abs, misogyny and horrible dialogue.

respect the author's wishes and leave watchmen just a comic. IT was visionary, IT was cool and IT was awesome, but zack snyder is not. Please, it's too smart of a work to get the slick action movie treatment

Alan Moore comes across like a feral hermit-man hippy wizard. Your point?

#5 which directors did he call out?

it doesn't matter how eccentric alan moore looks, HE wrote it, it was his vision and he's completely against it being a movie.

I don't know about you but if I put out the blood, sweat and tears to make a novel and someone used it in a way that I made clear I didn't like, I would be pretty pissed.

And I think my point was pretty obvious, I'm not sure how I could make it much clea for you, Stu.

zack snyder may be nice, but he is a terrible director, i mean absolutely terrible. 300 made me want to vomit, was full of cgi abs, misogyny and horrible dialogue.

respect the author's wishes and leave watchmen just a comic. IT was visionary, IT was cool and IT was awesome, but zack snyder is not. Please, it's too smart of a work to get the slick action movie treatment

sorry, i didn't mean to repost that twice. i don't know what is going on with my computer at work!

@14, He's not against the movie being made. He's tried and tried and TRIED to explain it to people just like you. He wants nothing to do with it, sure. He won't see it, sure. He's upset that it's being made certainly. But the only reason he's angry now is because of League. He himself was pondering making some of his properties into movies before that happened. He's washed his hands of the whole thing.

@ 11, 15, 16

Where was the misogyny in 300? In fact it was made a point that the Spartan women were more free and were allowed to speak their minds and shit, as opposed to other empires. If you're referring to the slow motion titty jiggle shots, that's not misogyny, and it'd be negated by that one man-ass shot anyway. And that chick got her rape revenge by killing McNulty in the end anyway so that's also negated. I think you just wanted to use the word "misogyny".

And I don't think the abs were cgi, they had some video showing the training those guys had to go through to get their physiques looking like that, they probably just put some kind of shit on their bodies to make them stand out more and look more stacked

The dialogue was just kinda there, saying it's horrible is an overexaggeration though. Before they got all played out, the "madness? this is sparta!" thing and the "our arrows will blot out the sun" / "then we will fight in the shade" lines were pretty cool, the movie wasn't all about dialogue anyway.

It was a good action movie, take it for what it is instead of getting all butthurt.

it's my opinion that it was not a good movie, I'm not in twist about it, just wish this guy wasn't making a movie out of one of my favorite comics.

Also, getting "rape revenge" is exactly what a MAN would think constitutes any sort of closure for a woman...sure she gets raped, a day later she stabs a guy, and all is well, forget the psychological impact of being raped.

And her character was a pathetic attempt at creating a "strong" woman, which in movies somehow means that she will do anything she can to bring her husband home because she simply can't live without him, including resorting to having sex with a creepy guy. what a joke. Besides that, she wasn't even a character in the comic nor was she central to the actual legend, which please don't get me started on the historical inaccuracy of the movie.

@ 17
a direct quote from moore:
"I talked to [director] Terry Gilliam in the '80s, and he asked me how I would make Watchmen into a film. I said, ''Well actually, Terry, if anybody asked me, I would have said, 'I wouldn't.''' And I think that Terry [who aborted his attempted adaptation of the book] eventually came to agree with me. There are things that we did with Watchmen that could only work in a comic, and were indeed designed to show off things that other media can't."
sounds to me like he doesn't want it to be a movie and never did, even from the 80s, before they made from hell, league etc. into horrible movies. He has also said that he is glad that his movie, "Fashion Beast" was never actually released.

most of the lines from 300 are lifted directly from Frank Miller's text.

@12
I was replying to the actual entry, not your post. And I was just saying appearances really have nothing to do with what a person's skill or competence in something is. And people who say he can't do Watchmen well because he directed 300 also misses the point that people like more than one type of thing, and Snyder was basically following what was in the comic, which he's trying to do with 300 as well. There's no real basis in the idea he'll just try to do Watchmen in the style 300 was originally written as. He's ADAPTING 2 different people's work in each case, so why would he an Alan Moore story in a Frank Miller style?

I'm sorry but go back and re-read "Watchmen" again. In my opinion, it's REALLY overrated. It's too drawn out, preachy and has a horrible, lame ending. There are some great individual moments but as a whole it really isn't all that good.

I think (like a lot of other things), fan boys got so used to hearing "it's the greatest comic book EVER", they just accepted that as fact and never really developed their own opinion.

Brian Wallace