This a fantastic example of how trailer making has become an artform. I think whoever edited this together could make my journey to work look like three tours in 'Nam. After I saw this trailer I filled the window with copies of Watchmen and promptly sold more copies in one day than we usually do in a week.
So you sold two copies. Ho! Maybe some Batman in the window this week? Just a thought.
It threw me a bit when it said "The Most Celebrated Graphic Novel Of All Time"- I thought I'd downloaded a trailer for Maus. Hee Hee! (I bet only 1001 other people have made that joke, 1002 now).
It is a good trailer and the editing is tight as a nut (I liked the way the turgid song said something about a "mystic lady" (or What.Ever.) just as Silk Spectre looked up). I didn't like the darker than darkness (visually not thematically), Silk's Leather Dee-lite outfit or Rorschach's voice. Other than that...It's a good trailer but it ain't no film.
They've captured the images quite well but have they captured the meat, the soul, the wotsitchamaflip of Watchmen? It seems to me that Watchmen is such a treasure because it uses the medium itself so well. Taken into another medium the risk is that you'll just end up with a hollow simulacrum; it looks like Watchmen, sounds like Watchmen and moves like Watchmen but it isn't Watchmen. Like that fella in The Monkey's Paw. So don't open the door! Or something. Er.
The "turgid song" is "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" by Smashing Pumpkins. It was featured over the end credits of Joel Schumacher's batsuit-nippled Clooney movie, Batman & Robin...
There are people who debate whether this was an intentional or ironic 'homage'. I'll leave that judgement to wiser minds.
I think the song was chosen simply cos it suits the trailer, same as the NIN song on the 300 trailer which had nothing to do with the film at all, but made for an awesome accompaniment to the visuals.
