Rule # 3: PWS Anderson always is wrong.

Eli Roth is the greatest director of all time

Lear it, Live it, Love it

Or perhaps FOX was waiting until WB was committed with the project before making a move. Now the brothers Warner have less wiggle room because they have a $100 million + investment to recoup.

So this movie's about dudes and wristwatches?

...and stop whining. It's going to get released. You people probably get all worked up about politics and presidential elections, too, huh?

You kids bully others in grade school to give up their lunch money, too?

I'm not pre-judging. I shan't fall the way of the worrisome fanboy based on some minor details, though I DO have some reservations about Zach's handling of the story. The man can cut a damn fine trailer, as evident with 'Dawn of the Dead' and '300'(which was better than the movie turned out to be), as well as these 'Watchmen' trailers.

Please, Zach, please. Don't let me be taken out of the fantasmagasm of a story by the performances either.

Oh, and I was gonna ban WOLVERINE, anyway, just because the previews make it look SO bad! I'm still laughing at the thought of dumpy, doughy Liev Schreiber (wearing cheap Halloween fangs and Lee Press-On Nails) playing uber-bad@$$ Sabertooth and trying to hide his flabby physique under layers of clothing, while fighting a pumped-up Hugh Jackman...

WOLVERINE will be this year's Little Miss VAN HELSING. :P

Though Snyder seems to have managed to make one of the best scenes in the book throwaway at best, losing all the tension and menace.(I hope that isn't a harbinger of things to come.)

I have to say acting-wise it's not shit. The Spirit acting WAS complete shit. A MASSIVE pile of shit that was obvious in seconds of viewing it's clips. The "tone" of the Spirit was all over the place with it being patently obvious the actors didn't have a clue whether they were supposed to be playing it all for huge laughs or not.

This is a mixed bag of acting so far, some looks solid, some less so. Though Manhattan wasn't a Vulcan bad guy, he was remote and emotionally hard to reach and gradually grew more so throughout the story. Crudup seems to have caught some of that at least. Ozy still looks all wrong to my eyes but I'll roll with it.

Fact is the characters already have great dialogue as long as Snyder doesn't fuck with it too much.

But it's definitely going to be one of the most interesting Superhero Movies yet made and particularly for most of those who are familiar with the original pretty essential viewing even if it might eventually ultimately underwhelm compared to the source.

As for FOX, fuck them. They make Fox News and have made a pile of shit Movies lately. Reason enough not to suck their corporate cock surely ?

We'll see how dumb they are as even if WB are hardly the "little guy" and didn't read the small print it's pretty fucking clear that waiting till just before release means it's a corporate "shake down" executed by shysters looking to snatch as much money as possible with release deadline blackmail. If Fox overplay this it will backfire badly.

I almost unforrowed my permenantly furrowed geek-brow and let my jaw drop for >that< story. If only for a moment.

Anyway, Fox (and I'm sure Warners too) saw what happened with The Dark Knight and know that the movie going crowd love serious superhero flicks. Maybe, now that they may have some say over the release date, they want to hype up the film, and get it a summer release.

Personally, I don't usually care about the Box Office. Some of my favorite films have been financial flops. BUT it would be nice to see another fucking great superhero flick do bang-up at the B.O.

Then again, WB cancelled the GLOBAL FREQUENCY series over a toys-out-of-pram tantrum the studio threw because the pilot screener ended up on torrent. Not a bitch move on par with Fox's WATCHMEN stunt, but childish nonetheless...

I understand there are legal issues but what if the whole thing's already been worked out behind closed doors and all the rest is just...noise?

BTW. I tried to slog my way through the graphic novel and had a time of it. Never finished it. Go figure. Kind of glad I didn't because now I can go into the film..."virgin." For the most part. That and this film does look, as Snyder puts it, "EPIC."

Maybe I'll read it after I've seen the film.

As it was, IMO I thought it was quite good so its not making a series was quite a shame.

But DAMN YOU, Tom Rothman. Damn you to hell!!!

It's hard to tell from a 4min promo, but I'm optimistic.

Just take solace in the fact that there were a ton of screaming mothers crying about how violent TDK was. It really did push the envelope. Luckily all the MPAA cares about are swearing and boobies.

I think he's a creative director with a good head on his shoulders who takes chances. We need more of those in Hollywood.

And to those who've mentioned that Zach doesn't pull good performances out of his actors, you're myopic and dead wrong. Has Gerard Butler ever inhabited a character like King Leonidas before, ever? The answer is no. And who do you think pulled such an iconic, asskicking performance out of Butler? That's right, it was Snyder. He's much better than you're giving him credit for.

I hope the Fox distribution case gets solved so we can watch "Watchmen" next spring. I really do.

Liev Schreiber is also a tremendously good actor when given solid material, and I think his Sabertooth will grab people's attention.

Complain all you want, that's fine. You'll just end up looking like whiny bitches after you see the movie.

But I understand how you hope it won't be.

retards.

It was right next to Venom's face.

The highlights (mostly, new stuff):

- More Ackerman goodies. On costume, her moves are just...super-heroic drooling coolness. Hard to describe, she just got the right heroic poses. About the acting, I think she is doing great. Before putting the costume on, a bitter and sad former self. After, she is another kind of animal. A exhilarating one. You gotta pay attention.

- Yes, Dan is a fat geek, yay. And we can see the white snow costume (not used later) in the "Sit and be melancholic" scene.

- No one, I say, no one missed the futuristic eletric cars. They Would be too distracting, indeed. Like a George Lucas "redone" movie and all the beeping gadgets flying around the actors, heh. Ok, of course, I hope to see the futuristic shit on screen, Gibbons art is that cool.

- Loved the "Blade Runnerian" transparent umbrella from the "Ro walking down the street with the sisters" scene, heh.

- The B-29 shot was so geekstastic dreamy. Could be an awesome wallpaper or poster.

- Jon´s first girlfriend is hot. Even better, angry hot.

- "Laurie Gotta Puke Everytime We Teleport", gonna be the next hit song, heh.

- Finally, we can see Ozy emoting something. The "I am such an asshole" smirk on the face, outside the club, just perfect.

Now:

- Older Blake´s white hair... It´s a strange mix of Wolverine and Beetlejuice, I swear. Where is the gimp mask when we need one? Heh.

- Mask effects on Rorschach are getting better and better. Everyone and their mother will want to see the prequel: "The Street Adventures of Raw Shark Boy and Owl Dude", heh. But, still, sometimes he got... too much "body expression" going on. I know, the actor is behind a mask and have to express himself using the rest of the body (like V). But I always pictured the main man as a "slower and avoiding unnecessary movements" type of fella.

- Better to cut out the front lights from Archie on the opening shot ("out of the water"). Looks cheap. Talking about Archie, every child and adult in this world will want to buy one. Especially the Archie Shaped Corn Flakes, heh.

- And the final shot of New York, damn, every time I see it, I think, "it's Heroes again, blah". I hope it´s only the tip of the SQUIDLESS BERG OF MASS DESTRUCTION!... :-p

Cheers and Happy New Year everyone.

But there are, no doubt, top secret negotiations known only to these "ballsy Lawyers" (cunts) that make this an act of generous philanthropy and upstanding moral behaviour on the part of Fox.

I have no problem with calling those in WB stupid for not making the distributions rights airtight, (though the idea that some of the rights, ownership of this "property" and it's distribution arrangements are at all simple and can be stated with certainty that they "belong" to one party or the other is clearly not the case or it wouldn't be so contentious)But Fox will have to accept that unless they can prove they made a REAL and DOCUMENTED effort to sort this all out LONG before this VERY late hour in the production of the Movie they will always look like opportunistic money grubbers who are using the tactic of a threatened delay of the release by Lawyers to extort more money out of WB for a more generous settlement.

Release Deadline Blackmail as has been said. Pure and Simple.

Perhaps if Fox had actually made far more worthwhile and popular product of their own instead of relying on this unedifying Legal wrangling for revenue, there wouldn't be such an amusingly low opinion of them and Rothman as there clearly is ?