Who Will Watch the Watchmen

Great another Hollywood summer movie with brainless superhero action and zero plot. As long as the effects are good and the kids like it right! But hold-on, these heros have no super strength, no xray eyes and wait a sec it's set in the Nixon era and did I hear that one of the super hero's gets raped? What the hell!

Yep, it's comics meet the real world and in the real world superheros have real problems so I guess we have a plot. The premise seems interesting enough but will the kids see it? The answer that is mr 300, Zack Snyder who also did a pretty decent redo on the Dawn of the Dead flick a couple years back.

So why am I interested in this? The idea of bringing a comic to the big screen isn't new and Sin City has shown that now they can take illustrated panels from the book and bring them to film. What's cool about this is that this story, this film and is going to be a real as possible. Which means gritty, raw, uncomfortable. The images above already show the direction. Desaturated color, roughed up and beaten backdrop, a sense of irony in the characters. It's going to be really interesting how they market this one, stay tuned.