Teasers, trailers and tv-spots...

[Rust]

I want the marketing for this movie to not try to sell it as a superhero movie, but as a crazy ****ing spectacle of a movie with just totally mind-blowing scenes like the one's Zack Snyder already mentioned. When people see the trailer for this I want them to go "Holy **** what the **** was that?!?!" That's the only way to sell Watchmen to the masses.

Amen to that... I dont wanna hear or read the word "superhero" in at least the first real trailer. Watchmen should be presented as a thrilling crimeflick featuring masked vigilantes and superhumans.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

@ Sad lieutenant; good concept, more original than most ideas around here. But I think the lines of the shrink are repeated to many times and it definitely shouldn't feature the corpses.

 

[ShaneHelms]

I think it shouldnt feature Rorschach without his "face". I think it should be hidden until his unmasking by the police in the film.

 

[sad lieutenant]

@ Sad lieutenant; good concept, more original than most ideas around here. But I think the lines of the shrink are repeated to many times and it definitely shouldn't feature the corpses.

Thanks, Carmine! It was an interesting way to get through a hang-over. I've been meaning to come up with a throw-away project to familiarize myself with video editing software, so I might make a go at it with Sony Vegas and see if it isn't too laughable.

I thought that Dr. Long's lines (straight from the comic) would serve as a sort of tether throughout the blitzkrieg of images -- Long's attempts to make sense of Kovac's psyche parallel the audience (assuming they're unfamiliar with the source material) attempting to make sense of a giant blue guy, ultra-violence, Nixon doing a "Mission Accomplished" routine in Vietnam, and a guy with a rag on his head.

And as for the alleged "corpses": They're only sleeping!

 

[sad lieutenant]

I think it shouldnt feature Rorschach without his "face". I think it should be hidden until his unmasking by the police in the film.

You're probably right about that... I guess as someone who has read the comic bagillions of times, the element of surprise is rendered meaningless. I just want to see the images move, blood dripping... hear Rorschach's voice, etc..

 

[sad lieutenant]

I think it shouldnt feature Rorschach without his "face". I think it should be hidden until his unmasking by the police in the film.

You're probably right about that... I guess as someone who has read the comic bagillions of times, the element of surprise is rendered meaningless. I just want to see the images move, blood dripping... hear Rorschach's voice, etc..

 

[sad lieutenant]

I think it would be cool if there was an 80s-inspired, over-the-top viral marketing campaign for the Watchmen film. I just hashed out a rough draft for the first commercial. It will promote a non-existent toy line.
ATTENTION Snyder and/or WB: I'm pretty sure I could shoot this for like $17 and a bag of goofballs.


KID 1 has fists-full of Viet Cong; KID 2 has a ginormous blue god (think of those plush WWF dolls from the 80s) in his mits.

Kid 1, as she dumps her stock of Viet Cong on the linoleum:
Keep your histrionic, imperial agenda out of our jungles! Your technological might is no match for our guerilla tactics, oriental cunning, and sheer numbers! And considering that the ideal of the individual has yet to reveal itself within the context of our cultural and intellectual heritage, our savage, brazen tactics in the war theater -- while seemingly crude -- will reflect those of a determined people who have nothing to lose!
Kid 2, in a god-like intonation:
There is no difference between hundreds of thousands of living natives and hundreds of thousands of dead natives. They are the same number of particles.

KID 1 brandishes a zippo and a gawdy, pressurized canister of hair-spray, and instantly does an impromptu napalm-routine on the toy Viet-fodder.
KID 1 and KID 2 squeal with delight.
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ENTER DAD IN SPANDEX-SUIT, TOWELING OFF HIS SWEAT-DRENCHED BROW WHILE CHUGGING SAN PELIGRINO WITH WELL-DESERVED GUSTO.

Dad:
What's goin' on, kids?
Kid 1 and Kid 2 opposite each other, simultaneously facing Dad like a shifting Rorschach blot:
Playing Watchmen!

CUT TO smoldering Vietnamese.

Dad (O.S.)

Sounds cool! How do you play?

CUT TO KIDS.
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Kid 2, incredulously:
You already played. In Baghdad. When I was born!

PAN TO MOM, in kitchen, struggling with one of those Oscar Meyer packages of bologna.
SLOWLY ZOOM IN TO HER HANDS as she is attempting to separate the cylindrical, plastic container from the flat cardboard packing. It's proving to be a lengthy, insurmountable task, while:
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V.O .
Each sold separately. Vietnamese napalm-fodder sold in burlap sacks by the pound.
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PS-
Note to Snyder/WB: If you hire me to shoot this, I can guarantee that no critics will misconstrue this film as being a thinly-veiled Pro-Bush screed!

 

[sad lieutenant]

http://www.rorschachsjournal.com/

This smacks of some loon who has even more time on his hands than we do. The graphic is underwhelming and does not reference the comic enough. If it were official, it would look more like the journal -- i.e. at least be handwritten.

 

[sad lieutenant]

http://www.rorschachsjournal.com/

This smacks of some loon who has even more time on his hands than we do. The graphic is underwhelming and does not reference the comic enough. If it were official, it would look more like the journal -- i.e. at least be handwritten.

That's right: I quoth myself!

Here's what some other loon immediately posted on AICN's talkbacks:

Look in the source code. It takes you here: http://staff.theonering.net/xoanon/rorschach/index.html Now look at the page's title. It's morse code for "STOOD IN STREET. WATCHED IT BURN." It's a speech that Rorshach gave (see 6:25:8 to 6:26:7)

Some guy who happens to be a Watchmen geek stumbles upon this **** and do the detective work and then he's like, "Oh hey that's morse code. How mysterious! IT'S A GOOD THING I KNOW MORSE CODE."

Go eat a dick, philistine!!

UPDATE: "theonering.net" is a cast site for Tolkien-philes. This clown must have some standing there. Does it literaally pay to be a Hobbit-geek nowadays? There is no way this is even remotely official.

 

[sad lieutenant]

http://www.rorschachsjournal.com/

This smacks of some loon who has even more time on his hands than we do. The graphic is underwhelming and does not reference the comic enough. If it were official, it would look more like the journal -- i.e. at least be handwritten.

Philistine exposed:

http://xoanontorn.blogspot.com/

Why would WB have some French-Canadian schlub leave an e-trail that leads straight to his coma-inducing blog? It is rather revealing, stating that he "mostly eat skittles and chicken, though not always together"?!?!!
WTF?

UPDATE: In the google-cached version of the blog, the "skittles and chicken" bit originally read "miles of cock". This makes more sense.

 

[superherofan777]

I wonder when we can expect a teaser for this film???

 

[Hellrider]

Here's how I would do my watchmen teaser.

-Have rosarch walk to the comedians body where he picks up the bloody smiley face. And is zoomed in.

-rorsarch shooting the grapple gun.



Rorsarch(V.O)
Its not god who kills the children

-Have Daniel and Laurie fighting the thugs

-200 feet tall Dr. Manhanttan causing some havoc

- Ozymandias beating the assassin.

Rorsarch(V.O)
Not fate that butchers them

-have the comedian getting slashed with the bottle

Rorsarch(V.O)
Or destiny

-than the comedian shoots her

Rorsarch(V.O)cont'd
that feeds them to the dogs

- A clip of the cemetary scene

- Daniel throwing the smiley face into the grave and overlapses the frame

-black

Rorsarch(V.O)
Its us...
- fade in with nite owl and comedian infront of the wall with the writing "Who wactches the watmen"

Rorsarch(V.O)
Only us

then ..."Watchmen", and the release date.

 

[Caliber]

I want WB try to show this isn't your normal super hero story making the hero stuff look small. It'd be great if the trailer open with the Comedian falling to the ground then it goes to a shot of Doc Mahhantan in jungle. It progresses to Rorschach going a comedian died friday and shots of Rorschach walking the streets. Dreiberg finding talking to Laurie then a shot Ozmyaidias in the tropical globe looking out finally going back to Comedian hitting the ground.