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"Watchmen:" see the trailer

Posted by tinear on March 8, 2009 at 12:18:25:
three or four times and you've had an artistic experience far greater than the film itself. That combination, in the trailer, of the ominous God-like opaque blue figure, with the futuristic music and that amazing crystalline world forming..... well, the film pales before those images wedded to that sound.
For the rest, you've seen it all before, but not this long-winded or full-of-itself. Billy Crudup shows why stardom has eluded him: he's perfect to portray a sexless, bloodless Superthing. There are some disturbing thoughts hidden in the quagmire of millions of wasted dollars of Fx, too. A woman born of a rape--- well, not only is she glad to have been given life but so is the victim to have been so gifted! Ah, there's always a silver lining.
I'll leave out the fact that human life is casually destroyed by the heroes of the film, as well as the Superthing, as if we were all just numbers to be calculated up.
Okay, how about eye-candy? This is the type of film that wherein the women are all brassy, hard-boiled, air-brushed, and totally devoid of any softness. The superhero male allowed to be attracted to women is-- hasn't this become the icon of Modern Man, at least to Hollywood?--- a middle-aged guy, not unattractive and buff to the max yet he acts more self-conscious, more boyish than Jimmy Stewart at his most awkward.
What a pile of stinking manure this is. I'd like to say the Fx made it all worthwhile but it didn't. Ah, but the trailer is wonderful!