Can you feel the excitement building? Yeah, me neither, but there’s nothing we can do about it: Watchmen will be arriving in theaters two weeks from Friday and we’ll just have to ride out the hype together. It’s already proven too much for our regular Watchmen correspondent Leonard Pierce, who is currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed location, so I’m filling in for him today with the latest in Watchmania.
British tabloid The Sun has an exclusive clip from the film, which runs approximately 90 seconds and appears to have been chosen completely at random. “Superheroes battle to save men, women and children from a burning building in our explosive exclusive from Watchmen. Nite Owl II (PATRICK WILSON) and Silk Spectre II (MALIN AKERMAN) fly to the rescue in the hottest Superhero movie of the year.” It’s hard to believe they could have picked a more generic scene, but I’m sure they have their reasons.
“There is a press blackout on reviewing the Watchmen movie until March 6,” writes Matt Selman of Time.com magazine before going on to review the movie. Or as he puts it: “Don't worry, I'm not going to write a review of Watchmen. What I am going to write about is the emotional experience of seeing a piece of literature with which I have an intense personal connection LITERALLY COME TO LIFE. It's a serious freak-out… I'm not allowed to talk details, but let's just say it is astounding how much of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel is in this movie… Sitting in that screening room and watching the visual world of the Watchmen movie unfold was one of the most powerful experiences I've ever had.” So we’ve got the pull-quote: “Astounding! Powerful! A serious freak-out!” But don’t worry, it’s not a review.
Here’s the trailer for Tales from the Black Freighter, the adaptation of the comic-within-the-comic that will be released on March 24:
Finally, if you’re just trying to kill time before the movie opens on March 6, why not play the online videogame? It’s supposedly replicating a 1977 arcade game, but it looks suspiciously 1983 to me.
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