Who Watches The Watchers?

I remember when I first saw the "300" trailer. I had heard the Nine Inch Nails song "Just Like You Imagined" playing from the office next to mine and I immediately ran in to see what it was. I was blown away, not just by what I saw but how perfectly it was edited with the music. I couldn't stop watching it, I must have watched it at least 2 or 3 times a week, counting the days until March when the movie premiered... and it seems I am going to be counting the days till next March, snared by the same director and studio no less.



I caught the trailer during the previews before "The Dark Knight" and it sung it's hooks into me, not only by the wonderfully obscure choice of song which I love (a unreleased alternate version of "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning" aptly titled "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" by The Smashing Pumpkins, which also coincidently appeared on the "Batman & Robin" Soundtrack) but how wonderfully it was edited with the music. I began reading about the book, which I had heard referenced to a while back when coincidentally reading about "The Dark Knight" when the first photos of Heath Ledger in makeup as The Joker first surfaced. Hard as fucking nails, and I don't even care if the movie sucks, the trailer is enough for me. And everything I read about Frank Miller's novel touted it as one of the greatest graphics novel ever, trumped only by a book called simply "Watchmen". Even while I had read the reviews of the prescreening of "The Dark Knight" and knew that Ledger's performance was something not to be missed, the trailers for the movie did not do much for me, not like the "300" trailers did and not like the trailer for "Watchmen" is doing right now. I bought the book for "300" to tide me over until the movie came out, and today I did the same thing for the "Watchmen".



Alternate reality where we win the Vietnam War and Nixon isn't impeached in '72, a pyromaniac donning a trench coat, fedora and full face mask named Rorschach, a man called Dr. Manhattan who I can only assume is some horrible result of The Manhattan Project during World War II. Sign me the fuck up. From what I've read of it almost sounds like Pixar's "The Incredibles" once loved superheroes forced into hiding against the people they were trying to help and then being forced into their up their old jobs because of a plot against them. Also I finally saw "Serpico" and Pacino is great in it. If you're a big fan of him go rent it, very cool movie. Also deals with the concept of who is watching the Watchers?

"Watchmen" Trailer