Doctor Who
- Beeb gearing up to offer David Tennant lots of money
Film
- Bloody hell. The Watchmen trailer is here
- Who's replacing Arnie in Terminator Salvation
- Trailer for Ridley Scott's Body of Lies
- Don Cheadle to star in and produce film about British drug trafficker
Theatre
- Full cast of Old Vic's The Norman Conquests revealed
British TV
- ITV commissions car crash television
- Five launches its catch-up service Demand Five
- Alan Bleasdale returns to the Beeb after 22 years
- Silly sitcoms coming back
- ITV2 making radio-based sitcom starring Chris O'Dowd and Nina Sosanya
- Ofcom ready to relax ITV's public service requirements
- Another 10 channels join Freesat
- British TV still too white
US TV
- Another Heroes trailer
- David James Elliott to star as a knight in Mirabilis mini-series
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan returning to Grey's Anatomy
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July 18, 2008 | Reply
There's some dodgy CGI on that Watchmen trailer, but otherwise it looks top. Although nerds of my acquaintance are complaining that there's too much wire-work and all the non-Dr Manhattan heroes look too competent.
July 18, 2008 | Reply
Won't somebody think of the nerds? Poor nerds. Will they ever find anything they actually like?
I thought it looked great. If old Zac S has a recurring theme, though – an auteur's motif, if you will – it would appear to be the six-pack.
July 18, 2008 | Reply
And a six-pack doesn't really belong on Nite Owl II, who's supposed to be paunchy. But if you put a paunchy bumbling costumed hero in a trailer, it'll look like a comedy.
Ozymandias's body sculpt looks a bit silly, but it's the sort of image the character would want to project. And Silk Spectre looks like a sex object, but that's the point: she looks like a sex object. Rorscharch, Comedian, and Dr Manhattan are all absolutely spot-on. I love Doc's mournful expression.
The biggest objection to the costumes, I think, is that everything looks a bit Joel Schumacher, and not the smooth lycra look of the comic. But Zac S is supposed to doing the same sort of thing design-wise with previous superhero films as Dave Gibbons did with superhero comics, and Gibbons loves the film's look. And he's a mod, so he knows his suits.
July 18, 2008 | Reply
I went back and looked at the costumes and Nite Owl doesn't appear too six-packy.
The post-ban heroes don't look too competent to me. Look at the awkward kick in the prison break scene. Definitely someone who hasn't been in a fight for a while.
(Also, hooray for the prison sequence! Considering how long the graphic novels were, I was afraid it might be cut. Some of the best Rorschach moments are there.)