Kevin Smith Has Seen Watchmen: Its...Astounding

[Rezzo]

At the Entertainment Weekly Visionaries panel at Comic Con, writer/director Kevin Smith was raving hard about the Watchmen footage which had premiered at the Con. After that I had a feeling that Zack Snyder, who was also on the panel, was going to show the film to Smith. And I was right. Kevin Smith has seen Watchmen. And while he couldn’t give the film a full review due to a NDA, he did have a couple things to say about the film:

I saw Watchmen. It’s ****ing astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the following with complete joygasmic enthusiasm: Snyder and Co. have pulled it off. Remember that feeling of watching Sin City on the big screen and being blown away by what a faithful translation of the source material it was, in terms of both content and visuals? Triple that, and you’ll come close to watching Watchmen. Even Alan Moore might be surprised at how close the movie is to the book. March can’t come soon enough.

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Hadn't seen this posted yet.

 

[Nivek]

Hmm, Interesting

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Very interesting, gives me a little more confidence leading upto the release.

 

[Hellrider]

3 times pretty adaptation than Sin City... WOW. And I'm guessing he saw the 3 hour version, I hope Smith can back Snyder up in that debate with WB. This certainly sounds very promising, especially coming from someone who knows Watchmen and the comic book medium very well.

 

[Gotham]

This is wonderful to hear. Glad he liked it so much.

 

[Motown Marvel]

cool.

 

[darkseid26]

lucky Smith, i wanna watch it t:

 

[Lobster Charlie]

Nice to hear it got a good review, but I personally don't give Kevin Smith a whole lot of cred. He favored Daredevil over the first Spider-Man film, and I personally didn't like the Sin City film all that much--while I loved the graphic novels.

Still, this is a bit of a good sign.

 

[Watson]

Nice to hear it got a good review, but I personally don't give Kevin Smith a whole lot of cred. He favored Daredevil over the first Spider-Man film, and I personally didn't like the Sin City film all that much--while I loved the graphic novels.

Still, this is a bit of a good sign.

LMAO, I wonder why?

He is a bit of a fan boy, but I would take Smith's word over someone like Harry Knowles. Nice to know, regardless.

 

[Yurka]

Good news

 

[Star]

YAY! And pfft, like Moore will even seen it. He's too sour and stubborn

 

[.Rorschach.]

Good news!

 

[tzarinna]

Damn it, I wants to see it now!

 

[superherofan777]

Hadn't seen this posted yet.

sounds good

 

[dr.strange]

yeah when kevin smith gives the thumbs up,you gotta take notice.wonder why he's never directed a comicbook film?

 

[Dark Victory]

t:YES YES YES!!!!

Can't wait till March.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

I officially hate Kevin Smith now. I wanna see it dammit!!

 

[AlteredEgo]

yeah when kevin smith gives the thumbs up,you gotta take notice.wonder why he's never directed a comicbook film?

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[RustyCage]

NICE! If ever Snyder needed a Shield of Justice to use against the guys upstairs trying to tell him what to do with his film, Kev's reaction would be it!

 

[Dr. Manhatten]

I'm glad to hear it. He's a guy who understands how hard it'd be to adapt a comic to the screen and what would generally fly and what wouldn't. He was pretty dead on with the Dark Knight so as long as Snyder and such live up to the praise and keep improving the movie, then all will be cool

 

[xero1186]

That's really good news. March seems so far away but I'll be living in Israel when it comes out l'd have to catch a flight to England to see it.

 

[Agentsands77]

It's good news to hear that someone liked it, but I hardly see eye-to-eye with Smith on a lot of films. And the SIN CITY comparison doesn't exactly make me hopeful.

But we'll see. I'm expecting good things, regardless, and good word is good word.

 

[luke1234]

Man how the hell does Kevin Smith always see these movies way before they come out?

 

[RustyCage]

Man how the hell does Kevin Smith always see these movies way before they come out?

I figure he makes the right friends in his position. t: lol

 

[Katsuro]

It's good news to hear that someone liked it, but I hardly see eye-to-eye with Smith on a lot of films. And the SIN CITY comparison doesn't exactly make me hopeful.

But we'll see. I'm expecting good things, regardless, and good word is good word.

What do you mean the Sin City comparison doesn't make you hopeful? Did you actualy read it, or did you just skim it and see the words Sin City? He didn't say the movie was anything like Sin City, except in the aspect of being exactly like the book.

The Sin City comparison makes me very hopeful, personally.