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Trailer Park: Watchmen
Friday, July 18th, 2008 07:17 amThe new Watchmen trailer is up here at Apple.
It certainly does look good, but then again, any trailer can, with a little snappy editing and some well-recorded theme music. I find two things a bit off-putting, though:
1) The only major star in this picture is Billy Crudup. How will the marketing campaign for the film go, and who will it target, without the obvious draw of a major Hollywood player? I wonder if the studio will go for something incredibly low-key, almost the "instant cult" route.
2) The tag-line "From the most celebrated graphic novel of all time" appears about halfway through. Is "Watchmen" really the most celebrated graphic novel? Of all time? I would argue that while "Watchmen" is a highly influential work, there are other, more beloved works that rightly deserve that accolade. ("Maus" and some of the Tintin books come to mind--but I could still be half-asleep.) And I almost hate to say this, but I have always thought of this work as the book that boyfriends press their comic-disliking girlfriends to read.
But am I crazy? Is this indeed the greatest graphic novel of all time? What does everyone else think?
It certainly does look good, but then again, any trailer can, with a little snappy editing and some well-recorded theme music. I find two things a bit off-putting, though:
1) The only major star in this picture is Billy Crudup. How will the marketing campaign for the film go, and who will it target, without the obvious draw of a major Hollywood player? I wonder if the studio will go for something incredibly low-key, almost the "instant cult" route.
2) The tag-line "From the most celebrated graphic novel of all time" appears about halfway through. Is "Watchmen" really the most celebrated graphic novel? Of all time? I would argue that while "Watchmen" is a highly influential work, there are other, more beloved works that rightly deserve that accolade. ("Maus" and some of the Tintin books come to mind--but I could still be half-asleep.) And I almost hate to say this, but I have always thought of this work as the book that boyfriends press their comic-disliking girlfriends to read.
But am I crazy? Is this indeed the greatest graphic novel of all time? What does everyone else think?
