Feb 13 2009'Tales of the Black Freighter' Trailer: Check Out This Shark!
When Watchmen comes to theaters on March 6, don't be surprised if you miss part of the story--and not just because you're watching it through the crude nylon mask of your Rorschach costume Tales of the Black Freighter, the castaway comic that runs parallel to the main story, was cut from the film, but will be released as an animated DVD on March 24. The newly-released trailer makes it look like it was meant to be part of MTV's Liquid Television, so unless things have changed since 1992, my mom probably won't want me watching it:
Reader Comments
1. Rod - February 13, 2009 12:15 PM
Pretty clever. Why include it in the movie or post it on the website when you can sell it to Watchmen fanboys for even more profit?
2. Nick - February 13, 2009 12:16 PM
This looks amazing. Must see it.
3. mike - February 13, 2009 12:23 PM
i'm glad that shit was cut from the movie. it was my least favorite part of the novel. didn't add anything and it was over-written and stupid.
4. Craig should be working - February 13, 2009 12:34 PM
From what I've read, "Tales from the Black Freighter" was never intended to be in the movie. It was always planned as a DVD extra. Or, so it seems, as a stand-alone DVD.
And Mike? If you really think it was "over-written and stupid" I suggest you stick to your Archie comics.
5. victor - February 13, 2009 12:41 PM
Wow, Mike. The Tale of the Black Freighter was a parallel story for a reason. It tells something of the characters' psyches, such as when Ozymandias is speaking with Jon about having dreams of swimming to a terrible ship. If you really can't look beyond the superficial story of a man lost at sea and desperately attempting to save his family from what he sees as doom, then I agree with Craig--maybe Dan Brown is an author more to your liking.
6. Charlie Claigula - February 13, 2009 12:42 PM
Well, that's better than "underwritten and stupid". Because then we'd have to call the movie "Scott Pilgrim".
7. ahha - February 13, 2009 12:42 PM
This looks kind of cool. I thought the Herbal Essences commercial at the beginning was well placed. I'm sure their target market is most likely to be watching a film like this and the characters in the film exemplify the hair ideal Herbal Essences will help you achieve. (Read: Stupid ad placement)
8. War Horse - February 13, 2009 1:12 PM
Looks Farking awesome. I can't wait to see this.
Oh, does anyone know where the music in the trailer is from? I've heard it before, but can't place it.
9. Hal - February 13, 2009 1:24 PM
UGLY. Medium budget animation, inconsistent movement, and it looks nothing like the EC COMICS inspired Dave Gibbons drawn sub-story in Watchmen. It looks exactly like the Animatrix/Gotham Knight dvd releases prior by WB. So much for making it look like a comic from that period, now it looks like the mediocre SPAWN series from the 90s. Geeks - open your eyes and get it through your head that just because they MAKE something to steal an extra $30 outside the ticket, doesn't mean we have to thank them for doing it poorly.
10. Nick - February 13, 2009 2:21 PM
Perhaps you should get it through your head that not everyone's opinion matches up to yours. It doesn't have to look exactly like what the art DG drew looked like, anyway. It doesn't even have to fit into the style of the era. It's an animated feature based on the story of the comic, not a motion comic.
Maybe you, geek, should stop complaining when they change insignificant things. You're probably the type of person that would have watched the video of Alan Moore reading excerpts from the comic in the voice he imagined Rorschach would have, and then complained that Jackie Earle Haley didn't sound like that in the trailer.
11. Fizz - February 13, 2009 3:12 PM
This is just one more brick in my wall of Watchmen excitement!
Oh and people like mike are the reason I'm scared it's going to flop.
They. Just. Don't. Get. It.
12. Hal - February 13, 2009 4:27 PM
Nick - way to stick it to me! That's why they're called opinions. Everyone's got one, along with an asshole. Except those odd people who are born without them, but usually they die from internal poisoning quickly, so they never get to form an opinion or a shit. If I'm going to let a bunch of fanboys' misplaced optimism change my view of animation as one of the most amazingly open mediums while all we get are these godforsaken bland medium budget direct to video offerings, I'd never see any really interesting visuals. Its a missed opportunity. On your tangental note, I would SO watch Alan Moore read Rorschach with his voice! Man, that sounds GREAT! Send me a link PLEASE! I love when fucking out there people bitch about stuff.
13. Shallow Val - February 13, 2009 4:40 PM
MTV's Liquid Television... Wow. I'd forgotten all about that. Admittedly this does like like it could easily fit into that line-up animation style-wise, but this looks like it'll make a lot more sense than Aeon Flux.
14. proteon - February 13, 2009 4:46 PM
I lol'd at the shark.
15. jamerson - February 13, 2009 4:54 PM
what the hell's blu-ray? and who're the "watchmen" for that matter?
16. amorfismos - February 13, 2009 7:35 PM
I love it how they keep calling the director visionary every chance they get.
17. Jesse - February 14, 2009 12:12 AM
Honestly, I'm glad for not having the black freighter story in the movie. The last thing I want to hear from the guy next to me is "WHO DAT IS SON? AINT MIKE PHELPS SON. HE ROSHACK? HE ROSHACK! SON! GET OUT THAT WATER!"
18. Jason - February 14, 2009 1:50 AM
My mom didn't let me watch Liquid Television either :-(
Beavis and Butthead? Not a chance.
19. Zeta - February 15, 2009 1:58 PM
I like this. It doesn't have to be an exact duplicate of the original, I prefer when it's an interpretation of whoever is doing it, so, thumbs up.
20. Nite owl - February 15, 2009 4:40 PM
what is that song?