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Watchmen Makes Pants Crunchy

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am by Jami

Indeed Marty, the pants, they be crunchy! Zack Snyder unleashed a set of promo photos of the main characters of his Watchmen adaptation. Let us take a gander, shall we.

First up is Dean Morgan as the Comedian.

The Comedian

Wow, that’s kinda how I always imagined him. Very dark interpretation but I think it will work well on film

Next is Patrick Wilson as Nite-Owl II.

Nite Owl II

How very Dark Knight of them. I was worried about how this one would turn out. The comic version seemed appropriate for the time it was drawn, but the costume always felt a little cheesy to me. They certainly sexed him up for the movie. The only thing that bothers me is the lack of ponch. I loved the idea of a middle-aged, slightly overweight costumer attempting to recapture his youth. This Bat-Owl doesn’t quite capture that. Certainly looks like a badass, but that’s not the direction I’d like to see the character go. We’ll just have to wait and see Wilson’s performance.

Might as well see what his honey bunny looks like. Here’s Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre II.

Silk Specter II

She’s like a Greg Land cover come to life! I always thought her costume was the absolutely dreadful in the comic. This interpretation of said costume isn’t very flattering. Got some weird Bruce Lee jump suit thing going on there. Leather garters? Eek! Really makes you realize just how ridiculous women’s costumes are in comics. Akerman certainly looks ready to kick some ass. Looking forward to what she can bring to the role.

Shall we see how our good friend Ozymandias is adapting to live action? Here’s Matthew Goode.

Ozymandias

Dude, you can do laundry on that stomach! The lines are certainly nice and he looks the part. But in my mind there needs to be more gold. It could be the photoshop processing they did to give these photos the same grungy palette, but Ozymandias really needs to shine, literally. He’s the untouchable genius god king among men. The color palette of this photo says clean-cut evil doer. Nothing very kingly or godly about it. Slightly underwhelmed by this one so it will be up to Goode to bring that god king personality out.

Finally, Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach.

Rorschach

Perfect!

I guess it’s hard to fuck up a mask, a hat, and a trench coat. I’m cool with his mask the way it is now. But I’ll really mess myself if they manage to make his spots constantly change. That’d be a bitch and a half post production, but it would ensure that I bring several changes of pants with me when I see this.

We’ve got a year until this hits theaters. But if they’re dropping promo photos now, you can be sure we’re going to be getting lots more visual eye sex from Watchmen throughout the year. Watchmen, fucking your eyes with the sexy!

Marty has higher resolution pics over at Blast-O-Rama.

[Via Blast-O-Rama]

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    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am
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    Watchmen Makes Pants Crunchy

    […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWatchmen Makes Pants Crunchy Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am by Jami Indeed Marty, the pants, they be crunchy! Zack Snyder unleashed a set of promo photos of the main characters of his Watchmen adaptation. Let us take a gander, shall we. First up is Dean Morgan as the Comedian. Wow, that’s kinda how I always imagined him. Very dark interpretation but I think it will work well on film Next is Patrick Wilson as Nite-Owl II. How very Dark Knight of them. I was worried about how this […]

  2. AvatarStephen
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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    Crunchy… Pants… What does it mean!??!??!?!?!?!? Seriously, is it like a fangasm or something?

  3. AvatarJami
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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    Sometimes when you have a happy time, there are… fluids. And if you had happy time with your pants still on and if perhaps certain fluids dried, well, then your pants would be all crunchified.

  4. Avatarsharkker
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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    Yes. It means he jizzed himself, and it has since dried and become crunchy.

    Back to the costumes - I am reading Watchmen myself for the first time, and am only a few pages away from the end. I agree that Rorshach’s and Comedian’s costumes are perfect, Silk Spectre II’s seems a little cheesy, though her mother’s was fitting for the time period.

    I’m torn on Nite Owl II’s. I like his costume design in the comic, but I also like the “Batman Begins” treatment it’s given here. Jamie, you mention his lack of ponch, but we are looking at him straight-on. Notice the curve of shadow over his stomach area? I imagine he might be poking out were we seeing his profile.

    Ozy, Ozy, Ozy. Why’d you have to go all emo on us? Too much black, not nearly enough gold. His pretty-boy looks definitely fit the bill, though he looks a little too young. We’re supposed to see an Adrian that is old enough to have traveled and lived and be saddened by the state of the world. If he’s too young, he’ll just come across as a jaded, angsty rich boy, instead of a man who’ll use his intellignece and wealth to do what he thinks is necessary to change the world.

  5. AvatarStephen
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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    Thank you for clarifying that little issue of terminology and as for ozy, I think that that costume looks really freaking awesome.

  6. AvatarAI_Joe
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
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    I am AI_Joe, and I approve these photos. I will have my mop and squeegee ready when this opens. The next day I’ll be in the papers like Paul Reubens, but smiling.

  7. AvatarLeto
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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    The spots on Rorscach’s mask are being done in CGI so he will have a constantly changing pattern. The actual physical mask worn by Jackie is basically just a ski mask with little markers for the CGI computers to use for tracking.

    So more cruchy pants for Jamie.

  8. AvatarA_martian
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2008 at 1:09 am
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    Jami is a cool guy but you should never accept pants from him

  9. AvatarMetabug
    Posted: Mar 8th, 2008 at 12:20 am
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    Why are they going through all the trouble animating the spots on Rorschach “face”? Isn’t it just made out of normal fabric from some female underwear?

  10. Avatarsharkker
    Posted: Mar 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
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    From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_(comics)#Early_years):

    ————
    At about the same time, he found work as an unskilled garment worker; noting later to a prison psychiatrist “Job bearable but unpleasant. Had to handle female clothing”. Working in this capacity, in 1962 he grew fascinated by a new fabric made possible through technologies developed by Doctor Manhattan. Two viscous liquids, one black and one white, between two layers of latex, continually shifted in response to heat and pressure, forming symmetrical patterns like a Rorschach inkblot test while never mixing to produce a grey colour. Kovacs learned of the fabric when a young woman chose not to buy a dress which she had ordered made from it; subsequently Kovacs took the dress home and experimented with the fabric. He learned to cut the fabric and maintain the seal using heated scissors.
    ————

    It wouldn’t be true to the character if the spots didn’t move.

  11. AvatarJami
    Posted: Mar 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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    YAY! Creepy moody mask FTW! I’ve always wanted to see what it would look like to have his face constantly changing.

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