Too Much Slo-Mo

[Hume]

Am i the only person who has noticed that the first Watchmen trailer is entirely slow motion take a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU

Now I don't want to be pesemistic...but the slow motion used is just accentuating the violence....which is not what the novel was about....i still have complete trust in Zach Snyder...I just dont want to come out of the film that was completely slow-mo...even still its a little too early to be worried about this

 

[darkseid26]

i think snyder said the slo-mo was only for the trailer

 

[bunk]

Doesn't bother me really. Snyder uses it fairly well. CSI Miami on the other hand... takes the dude like 20 minutes to walk to his car.

 

[Rust]

It will enhance the power of some of the scenes though, like the Comedian going through the window. Looked killer in the trailer, so why not in the movie as well.
I could also see it used when cutting between Dan and Laurie kicking Knot-top ass and Hollis getting his ass kicked too. Fast cuts of him going down with intercuts of Dan and Laurie in close-up slo-mo.

 

[TheVeidtMethod]

Hrm... delete posts around this place huh?

Weak.

 

[Rust]

Moved maybe?

 

[jsf]

i like teh slo mo

 

[The Denialist]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the slo-mo is only used for the trailer(s). I don't think that there will be a lot of it in the film itself.

 

[Rust]

Not as much as 300, but there'll be some, so I hope it's the right places.

 

[alexdunn]

I'm pretty sure the shot of the Comedian going through the window will be slow mo. Maybe Veidt hitting that assassin into the pool thing could be too. And the shot of Nite-owl kicking that inmate has 300 written all over it.

 

[Anubis Raptor]

Doesn't bother me really. Snyder uses it fairly well. CSI Miami on the other hand... takes the dude like 20 minutes to walk to his car.

LMFAO

 

[Anubis Raptor]

slo-mo=epic

 

[Da_Joka]

Some scenes need the slow-mo like it was made for it. The Ozy scene where he hits the guy with the gun in the fountain for instance.

 

[Max Newlander]

slo-mo=epic

Spot on.

The teaser was pretty much always going to have loads of slow-motion. The trailer has to have an epic feel to it to make people look up and notice the thing. Which I think it will do, cos lets be honest its a kick ass teaser.

I'm sure because its Zack there will be a few scenes in slow motion in the actual film but nothing like the trailer.

 

[TNC9852002]

It goes along perfectly with the song on the trailer.

-TNC

 

[BeserkerHilf]

edit: damn connection

 

[BeserkerHilf]

you can tell which scenes were shot in slo-mo and which were slowed down (notice the choppiness in the part where the comedian and nite owl are hovering over the crowd in archie).

don't worry about it yet.

 

[laudanum09]

im not worried about the fact that the trailer was in slo-mo so much as the general aesthetic direction they're going...I really don't feel like any 'cool' shots like these, depicting the characters with a sense of superhuman matrix-like grace hits the point of watchmen. to me, it was a great deconstruction of straight-story superhero comics, removing the veneer and exploring much darker aspects of being a vigilante, almost to the point of making it banal, the opposite of glamor, washed up men living in a mix of delusion and a desire for something better.

this i don't see whatsoever in the trailer. i see lots of 'cool', 'epic' and just generally over dramatized shots. from what i've seen so far, it doesn't appear that subtlety will be one of this film's weapons and thats just a bit worrisome knowing how much the comics rely on this.

amping the 'cool' factor while maintaining some strict adherence to the comics might not work out so well. i would have been totally insulted if the movie strayed remarkably from the comics, but it appears they're maintaining a good deal of faithfulness...the problem now is that faithfulness ends up going the way of point by point expositions and parallels...like ah see that was in the comics and now its on-screen, Snyder did great! no...theres much more than just the content of what you deliver, if the comedian says this line in watchmen and the panel frames it this way and its rendered just taht way on film doesn't mean its going to capture the life of that frame and its place in the overall context.

 

[Katsuro]

im not worried about the fact that the trailer was in slo-mo so much as the general aesthetic direction they're going...I really don't feel like any 'cool' shots like these, depicting the characters with a sense of superhuman matrix-like grace hits the point of watchmen. to me, it was a great deconstruction of straight-story superhero comics, removing the veneer and exploring much darker aspects of being a vigilante, almost to the point of making it banal, the opposite of glamor, washed up men living in a mix of delusion and a desire for something better.

this i don't see whatsoever in the trailer. i see lots of 'cool', 'epic' and just generally over dramatized shots. from what i've seen so far, it doesn't appear that subtlety will be one of this film's weapons and thats just a bit worrisome knowing how much the comics rely on this.

amping the 'cool' factor while maintaining some strict adherence to the comics might not work out so well. i would have been totally insulted if the movie strayed remarkably from the comics, but it appears they're maintaining a good deal of faithfulness...the problem now is that faithfulness ends up going the way of point by point expositions and parallels...like ah see that was in the comics and now its on-screen, Snyder did great! no...theres much more than just the content of what you deliver, if the comedian says this line in watchmen and the panel frames it this way and its rendered just taht way on film doesn't mean its going to capture the life of that frame and its place in the overall context.

Most of those shots are ripped directly from the book. What shots bother you? Giant Dr. Manhattan stomping through Vietnam? Comedian getting thrown out a window? Rorschach using his makeshift flamethrower?

Seriously, the music and quick cuts of the trailer make this look more stylized than it really is.

 

[laudanum09]

Most of those shots are ripped directly from the book. What shots bother you? Giant Dr. Manhattan stomping through Vietnam? Comedian getting thrown out a window? Rorschach using his makeshift flamethrower?

Seriously, the music and quick cuts of the trailer make this look more stylized than it really is.

absolutely they were ripped straight from the book. its the general tone of the trailer i have a problem with. it'll take more than sleek shots to impress me, 300 was full of those and i thought it was a film of all style and little to no substance.
perhaps its just poor marketing, but the slo-mo does everything to show the aestehtics of this movie while doing nothing to highlight its depth. i'll wait till i hear more dialogue and actually see the film, but so far i've seen nothing to indicate that this will do justice to the comics. anyone can rip the details off the comics but the tone of the story is subtle if not somewhat minimalist. the comic didn't bash you over the head to show you that spectre is sexy and tough...i don't think of cool slo-mo shots as a decent parallel to the story's sense of movement. if its anything indicative of the film, im worried. im hopeful, but worried.
and you say more stylized than is, but you haven't seen it as is, so how could you know? and i doubt there will be much slo-mo in the film, its just the aesthetic direction and the way it pairs up with the story's overall tone that i'm worried about.

 

[Max Newlander]

I still think we have to remember the movie has to appeal to its target audience. With a reported budget of approx $100m I believe, it requires to look and conform to the style of what people expect what its about....Superheroes......(we all know its far more than that don't get me wrong, but Joe Bloggs does not)

It needs to tap into a vast audience rather than the minscule GN admirers audience.

It still can keep very much respectful to the original material and still have a sense of awe about it. Yes the comic has a certain tone that doesn't quite match the flashy slow-mo glam teasers tone, buts its a trailer to try and stimulate the movie going public into thinking they might just want to see it.

 

[Shedhut]

If Snyder has Problems to cut the movie down from 3 hours, he probably won't use too much slow-mo. it costs time.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I'm not so worried about the slo-mo in particular. But, I'm hoping Snyder controls himself, I'd hate to read through all the 300 comparisons

 

[The Squirrel]

I would think it is possible to edit in slow mo just for the trailer.

 

[Quinzel]

I like it. It looks amazing.