The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Friday's Rorschach's mask news" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/07/fridays_rorschachs_mask_news.php Comments for the entry "Friday's Rorschach's mask news" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:23:36 +00:00 Comment from stu-n 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.

]]> 4253@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24524 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:23:36 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob 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.

]]> 4253@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24527 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:42:27 +00:00 Comment from stu-n 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.

]]> 4253@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24528 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:14:54 +00:00 Comment from Phoenix 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.)

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