Trailer Review: Watchmen (Trailer #2)

Paul Clark — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT

I somehow missed this trailer a few weeks ago, so apologies if posting it now feels like too little, too late. But I think the important thing is getting it out there for the other three people who didn’t know about it and are interested in the movie, so here you are. As trailers go, this one is actually more enticing than the first one (Philip Glass > Billy Corgan), although I’m still a little uneasy about the Zack Snyder factor. On the one hand, it’s nice to see him shooting on some physical sets this time around, instead of shooting 99% of the damn thing against CGI backdrops like he did with 300. Yet his overreliance on slow-motion is troubling, both in his last movie and in the Watchmen trailers we’ve seen thusfar. After all, the graphic novel is incredibly dense, both in terms of plot and character, and if he’s working with a studio-mandated running time, too much slo-mo will necessitate paring it down the story until a lot of what makes the source material great has been lost. Oh, who am I kidding? I’m there on opening day, not least because the casting looks almost uniformly great. I’m still not sure about Matthew Goode as Ozymandias, but Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach and especially Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Comedian look perfect.

The Screengrab : billy corgan

Trailer Review: Watchmen (Trailer #2)