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A new poster has been released for The Watchmen, Zak Snyder’s much-anticipated adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel. Sure. Good for them. Movies need posters. That’s one of the first rules of movies.
Movie Rulez:
1. Gotta have a poster
2. Cost all the money
And so on. The poster itself features all the Watchmen standing in a rainy street being Watchmen-y. (Boo hoo hoo, I’m The Comedian!) It looks good. It also looks VERY FAMILIAR. I mean, it would be one thing if this was the poster for Rachel Getting Married 2: Full Throttle and not for a blockbuster about superheroes, but since it is for a blockbuster about superheroes, you know, it’s impossible not to think of another movie poster for another blockbuster about superheroes that just happened to do really, really well.
Why so seriously that is the same poster? Let’s put a the same poster on that face! Not that we should be surprised. The next couple of years are going to be one long Dark Knight rip-off party as everyone tries to grab onto those purple velvet coattails. The third rule of movies after “cost all the money” is, of course, “get all the money.”
Besides, whatever, the Dark Knight poster was already totally plagiarizing the poster for The Happening:
There’s no arguing with incredible success and just being the overall best movie ever made. If it ain’t broke, etc. Tiramisu.
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Well played, Urkel.
“Well played, Urkel” is the new “Have fun at dinner.”
Whoa that Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles poster totally confirms my theory that all movies about deformed cartoon characters in the real world must obscure the characters faces to leave the viewer wondering if it’s really as silly as a loyal adaptation would be. EXAMPLES:
I’m sorry, but comparing The Happening and The Dark Knight? Videogum, have you read yourself recently?
get your sarcasm radar checked immediately….
Agreed. But isn’t this Watchmen poster much closer to your Dark Knight example?:
*sigh* Oh Zooey, why do you have to be in such awful movies.
We all love you, why can’t you just love yourself.
Wait, so they’re on a city street? That’s the similarity?
And when does Rachel Getting Married 2: Full Throttle come out?
nerd’n out: why the hell is silk spectre all skanked out!? she’s hot in a different way not in a manicured hair style, minuscule waist and hydraulic ass sort of way. i’ve been out of the loop on this adaptation of the book, so this is news to me… at least we shouldn’t expect lame thongs in this one a lá 300.