The Watchmen Movie Trailer

For those of you who haven’t mailed in your gift-box bombs in response to my just - so - so review of The Dark Night, I present my redemption. While Batman gets a shoulder shrug, this movie trailer get an all out “hell’s yeah!”

Watchmen started out as a twelve comic book series, published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. It won the prestigious Hugo Award (presented annually to the best science fiction or fantasy work) and was named to Time Magazine’s 100 Best Novels from 1923 to the Present.

Creator Alan Moore admits that he “wanted to transcend the perceptions of the comic book medium…. Attempting to make a superhero Moby Dick, something that has that sort of weight, that sort of density.”


The Watchmen takes place in an alternative version of the mid 1980’s, where “superheroes” have helped shape the course of history, the out coming being much darker than how our reality played out. The dooms day clock is constantly set to five minutes to midnight because the cold war is still going strong.

Honestly, I’ve never read the comic. I’ve never read a graphic novel all the way through period. I’m going to have to now! Just watch the trailer already.




The website that Warner Brothers and DC have set up is easy to navigate but somewhat boring. I’m sure that as the opening looms closer, more and more will be added. There aren’t even any good photos yet - I had to hit up Google image search for these.


The movie doesn’t open until March 9th next year, and I am hoping desperately that by the time it does premier, I’m not already sick of hearing about it, a la Snakes on a Plane. I’m considering getting myself the comic books, they’ve been put into a handy paperback book all together. Or maybe I’ll borrow it from my old “comic book man” of a brother-in-law. Out and over with that bad Simpsons reference. Till next time.