Archief - Watchmen
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Malkavian
Legacy Member
Newsarama.com : Animated Shorts: Watchmen Motion Comic, Black Freighter
THE WATCHMEN MOTION COMIC (2 DVDS) (Warner Premiere)
TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER/UNDER THE HOOD (Warner Premiere)
Release dates:
Motion Comic: out now
Black Freighter: March 24th
You knew that a film with ambitions as big as Watchmen was going to generate its share of sundry side products. I think we all hoped a little more discretion was involved, however.
The Watchmen Motion Comic is apparently for people just too damn lazy to read the graphic novel. Pulling together the chapters of the Warner Premiere Motion Comic, this DVD set takes the various pages and panels from Moore/Gibbons’ seminal work and animates them as minimally as possible. The end result looks even worse than either Clutch Cargo or the original Mighty Marvel Hour. It’s one serious, 5 hour long eyesore.
If that isn’t enough, whoever is responsible for the voice casting in particular should be taken behind the woodshed. Narrator Tom Stechschulte barely holds his own with most of the characters, and is quite frankly completely unconvincing when he tries to voice a wide range of them ranging from Rorschach to both Silk Spectres. You’d think with the millions upon millions spent on the film, they could have spent a few extra thousand to put in a full radio-style voice cast.
Nope. This one was done totally on the cheap and is virtually impossible to get through. Save your money. Get the book. Play the drama in your own head. You’ll be much better for it.
Now for as abysmal as the Motion Comic truly was, Black Freighter/Under the Hood is just the opposite. The first is an animated featurette directed by relative unknowns Mike Smith and Daniel DelPurgatorio though the Canadian studio Reel FX (not Bruce Timm’s DCAU crew). These two takes what also looks like a very tight budget and come up with a highly expressive and superbly acted rendering of this dark romance. The animation reminds one of the best of Tad Stone’s Hellboy work, only done in a much less exaggerated style. It complements the mood of the actual story to a T.
Not only should Mr. Moore be proud of this pirate's tale extracted from the original Watchmen series, but spiritual forefathers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to August Derelith would have been proud to have called this macabre masterpiece their own.
Compounding the experience is the inclusion of Eric Matthies short adaptation Under The Hood. Set inside a fictional news broadcast entitled The Culpepper Report, starring Ted Friend as the show’s lead reporter, Culpepper recalls an interview he did of Hollis Mason, the original Night Owl, ten years back [from the 1985 setting of the film] in 1975, when Mason published his autobiography of the same name. Exceedingly well acted and honestly witty, it’s a great complement to Zack Synder’s feature film in every sense of the word. If Hollywood continues to do extra content like this, I for one wouldn’t mind.
So, in total, we have two complete extremes here, both spun off from the same source material. Ones comes off as absolutely horrific, the other is something you’d want to play over and over again.
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Ik heb Black Freighter al besteld en als ik dit lees ben ik daar zeer blij mee
THE WATCHMEN MOTION COMIC (2 DVDS) (Warner Premiere)
TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER/UNDER THE HOOD (Warner Premiere)
Release dates:
Motion Comic: out now
Black Freighter: March 24th
You knew that a film with ambitions as big as Watchmen was going to generate its share of sundry side products. I think we all hoped a little more discretion was involved, however.
The Watchmen Motion Comic is apparently for people just too damn lazy to read the graphic novel. Pulling together the chapters of the Warner Premiere Motion Comic, this DVD set takes the various pages and panels from Moore/Gibbons’ seminal work and animates them as minimally as possible. The end result looks even worse than either Clutch Cargo or the original Mighty Marvel Hour. It’s one serious, 5 hour long eyesore.
If that isn’t enough, whoever is responsible for the voice casting in particular should be taken behind the woodshed. Narrator Tom Stechschulte barely holds his own with most of the characters, and is quite frankly completely unconvincing when he tries to voice a wide range of them ranging from Rorschach to both Silk Spectres. You’d think with the millions upon millions spent on the film, they could have spent a few extra thousand to put in a full radio-style voice cast.
Nope. This one was done totally on the cheap and is virtually impossible to get through. Save your money. Get the book. Play the drama in your own head. You’ll be much better for it.
Now for as abysmal as the Motion Comic truly was, Black Freighter/Under the Hood is just the opposite. The first is an animated featurette directed by relative unknowns Mike Smith and Daniel DelPurgatorio though the Canadian studio Reel FX (not Bruce Timm’s DCAU crew). These two takes what also looks like a very tight budget and come up with a highly expressive and superbly acted rendering of this dark romance. The animation reminds one of the best of Tad Stone’s Hellboy work, only done in a much less exaggerated style. It complements the mood of the actual story to a T.
Not only should Mr. Moore be proud of this pirate's tale extracted from the original Watchmen series, but spiritual forefathers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to August Derelith would have been proud to have called this macabre masterpiece their own.
Compounding the experience is the inclusion of Eric Matthies short adaptation Under The Hood. Set inside a fictional news broadcast entitled The Culpepper Report, starring Ted Friend as the show’s lead reporter, Culpepper recalls an interview he did of Hollis Mason, the original Night Owl, ten years back [from the 1985 setting of the film] in 1975, when Mason published his autobiography of the same name. Exceedingly well acted and honestly witty, it’s a great complement to Zack Synder’s feature film in every sense of the word. If Hollywood continues to do extra content like this, I for one wouldn’t mind.
So, in total, we have two complete extremes here, both spun off from the same source material. Ones comes off as absolutely horrific, the other is something you’d want to play over and over again.
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Ik heb Black Freighter al besteld en als ik dit lees ben ik daar zeer blij mee
wolverstine
Legacy Member
2u40 van mijn leven kwijt!
waddn soep is me da
't verhaal begrijpte wel, ma tis van den hak op den tak naar iets anders
die mutsmans is wel cool, maar blauwen emo-man breekt de spanning dan weer af
vechtscenes cva, maar, kan no way tippen xmen of sin city als het dan toch over comicbookverfilmingen gaat
waddn soep is me da
't verhaal begrijpte wel, ma tis van den hak op den tak naar iets anders
die mutsmans is wel cool, maar blauwen emo-man breekt de spanning dan weer af
vechtscenes cva, maar, kan no way tippen xmen of sin city als het dan toch over comicbookverfilmingen gaat
Raukaris
Legacy Member
wolverstine zei:2u40 van mijn leven kwijt!
waddn soep is me da
't verhaal begrijpte wel, ma tis van den hak op den tak naar iets anders
die mutsmans is wel cool, maar blauwen emo-man breekt de spanning dan weer af
vechtscenes cva, maar, kan no way tippen xmen of sin city als het dan toch over comicbookverfilmingen gaat
wolverstine
Legacy Member
ja, oké, tis misschien niet mooi genuanceerd enzo
maar, ik heb er ook niet meer over te zeggen
ik kende watchmen niet van vroeger enzo, kheb der wel ne making of op tv van gezien, en de plotse overload van reclame op tv, en dus was ik wel geïnteresseerd
maar ja, 8,5 euro had ik beter aan iets anders gespendeerd
true lies met arnold schwarzenegger bv, die willen we toch allemaal hebben? niet?
maar, ik heb er ook niet meer over te zeggen
ik kende watchmen niet van vroeger enzo, kheb der wel ne making of op tv van gezien, en de plotse overload van reclame op tv, en dus was ik wel geïnteresseerd
maar ja, 8,5 euro had ik beter aan iets anders gespendeerd
true lies met arnold schwarzenegger bv, die willen we toch allemaal hebben? niet?
Ringo
Legacy Member
Als ik me niet vergis is The Spirit (2008) al lang gekomen en gegaan en met gegaan denk ik zelfs dat het zo'n goede film was dat die een goede week gedraaid heeft.
FreakyJP
Legacy Member
Mijn mini-review van The Spirit. 
Het archief is een bevroren moment uit een vorige versie van dit forum, met andere regels en andere bazen. Deze posts weerspiegelen op geen enkele manier onze huidige ideeën, waarden of wereldbeelden en zijn op sommige plaatsen gecensureerd wegens ontoelaatbaar. Veel zijn in een andere tijdsgeest gemaakt, al dan niet ironisch - zoals in het ironische subforum Off-Topic - en zouden op dit moment niet meer gepost (mogen) worden. Toch bieden we dit archief nog graag aan als informatiedatabank en naslagwerk. Lees er hier meer over of start een gesprek met anderen.