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Saturday Morning Watchmen

This is brilliant (if you’ve read the graphic novel).  Thanks to The House Next Door.

Poking My Head Up Before Watchmen Comes Out

I know.  Nothing on the Globes, nothing on the Oscars.  That’s right – the inspiration just isn’t there.  I’ll just say this:  I loved the Oscars this year and what they did with the show.  They could have killed the second musical act (with Beyonce and Zac Efron) to save time, but the show finished ahead of schedule anyway.  They also could have done some more thinking about who was giving the speeches to the various nominees.  DeNiro to Penn was awesome, but Cotillard to Kate Winslet?  How was that not Emma Thompson?  Adrien Brody to Richard Jenkins?  Cuba Gooding Jr.?!?!?

And with that, let’s move on.

Watchmen is coming out this week and David Poland has pointed out some interesting commentary from one of the cast members. 

Matthew Goode plays Andrew Veidt/Ozymandias in the movie, expected to be one of the biggest hits of 2009.

But the 30-year-old actor – who has previously appeared in Match Point and Brideshead Revisited – went on the offensive after learning hardcore fans are saying he doesn’t suit the character before even watching the film.

He said: “The negative feedback is relayed by my friends. I think the fanboys aren’t particularly happy – there are a load of people they’d have rather had in before me.

“It’s already being slated before they’ve seeing anything.

“But if fanboys still hate the film after going and seeing it, they can all line up and s*** my d***.

“I don’t give a f***.”

Matthew added: “I’m having a child and that’s more important to me – so I don’t give a f***. Grow a d***.”

Is it bad that I think that he actually has the proper perspective here?

Now, there are people that have seen the film, like David Edelstein of New York Magazine, who says, it is an “awe-inspiring corpse: huge, noisy, gaseously distended by its own dystopia.”

Good times.

Batman's Voice is Silly, But Spreading

I think we all agree that while The Dark Knight was excellent, the voice that Christian Bale chose to use as Batman was just silly.

So, why… why I ask you… why is Rorschach using that exact same voice in the new trailer for Watchmen, and why in the world is Clint Eastwood using it in Gran Torino?!?

But wow.  Great Watchmen trailer:

Craigslist

Hold tight – this is quite a list… I’ve been saving up (for some reason I don’t quite understand):

• Here’s the trailer for Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist.  Yep, want to see it.
• Patrick Goldstein over at the Los Angeles Times reports that with the release of the latest X-Files film, 20th Century Fox has now released 18 consecutive horrible movies, determined by a rating less than 50 over at Rotten Tomatoes.  Their next release is called Mirrors, a thriller with Kiefer Sutherland.  I smell 19!
• Watchmen, Watchmen, Watchmen!!!  The trailer is live (and beautiful), the character posters are out, and my (ahem) graphic novel should be arriving from Amazon today.  Good times.
• Who really is going to go see an Oliver Stone created W. in November?  Won’t we be completely sick of the Obama-McCain election and want to move on from all of it?  Anyway, here’s the trailer.
• I cannot believe how awful The Spirit looks.  I hated the first trailer mostly due to the music, but that was just a teaser.  Now the real thing is here, and it almost looks idiotic… almost like a bad SNL Digital Short.
• Body of Lies looks somewhat interesting… I’m just not sure why Russell Crowe thought it was a good idea to do a Beau Bridges impersonation for this role.
• New Harry Potter trailer… Yep, want to see it.