wut? i've heard lots of good things about this film (apparently naomi klein and jeremy scahill are backing it), but this trailer has to be the worst possible trailer that could have been done for it...

Quoted: War Inc: Opening May 23rd in New York and Los Angeles

could be cool

This could be...good? I just heard that Miller's also working on a Batman series called "Holy Terror, Batman!" Can you guess the staring villain? Trick question--it stars Al Qaeda, and Batman is practically cast as Captain effing America. According to Wiki, he called it a piece of propaganda, straight up, no irony. He's also an outspoken supporter of the war in Iraq. That sort of makes 300 all the more suspect and it seems related to Allan Moore's (writer of The Watchmen) criticism of Miller's predictable and excessive use of "tough guys" in his work.

Quoted: Official Movie Website - WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister FRANK MILLER creator of 300 and SIN CITY

i'm torn. watchmen is awesome. seeing it done well on film would be awesome. and then there's this....which makes me think that it can't be done well...

Quoted: In an interview with Variety's Danny Graydon during Warner Bros.'s first possession of feature film rights for Watchmen, the graphic novel's writer Alan Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, "You get people saying, 'Oh, yes, Watchmen is very cinematic,' when actually it's not. It's almost the exact opposite of cinematic." Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. Moore told Graydon about his response, "I had to tell him that, frankly, I didn't think it was filmable. I didn't design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn't."[22]

i'm not sure about Ozymandias' costume, but the rest look pretty faithful to the drawings in the book. now let's hope they don't skull-fuck the plot.

Quoted: 'Watchmen' Costumes Revealed, Mostly

awww damn!

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Romero > god

Quoted: In his first independently produced zombie film in over two decades, George A. Romero returns to ground zero in the history of the living dead. When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear. Told with Romero’s pitch-black humor and an unflinching eye on our post-Katrina world, GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DIARY OF THE DEAD marks the noted filmmaker’s return to his roots.

obviously, the promotional discourse is pretty serendipitous: event, happening, the unthinkable, etc. i'm interested to see what a hollywood movie would be if it relied on nothing else than evental absence to write and sell itself.

Quoted: From Writer-Director M. Night Shyamalan : The Happening

if someone ever comes across a free version of this on the interweb, please, tell me...

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