Who watches the Watchmen trailer?
I’m not sure why I’ve watched it half a dozen times. It’s interesting, but not necessarily good. Ozymandias looks nerdier than I thought he should; Laurie just looks completely different -the ridiculous vamp-stalk through the flaming wreckage just has me rolling my eyes- and Dan seems to be lacking that distinctive owly pudginess. And I don’t know. Presumably the Watchmen movie will not have the Hollis Mason story about the garage owner with the fake boobs and the Ride of the Valkyries. It probably will not have Blood from the Shoulder of Pallas, Dan’s little monograph on owls. It pretty much can’t have the shipwreck-pirate-horror story-within-the-story. And I don’t know if the Mars sequence can even be done outside of comics at all. I am just complaining for the usual reasons. The movie will probably be all right, for a movie. It’s just, you know. It’s the goddamn Watchmen. You have higher expectations than your common-or-garden Hulk movie. Mind you, I thought both Hulk movies were pr
