So what didn't work? I thought that both Malin Akerman and Carla Gugino were quite weak. Akerman's performance came across as pretty shallow to me, and Gugino's first real scene in the film as an old woman almost had me laughing out loud because it seemed so campy. I could take or leave Patrick Wilson's performance - maybe it was just the character he was playing that left me c

When Kick-Ass eventually does get a release, it'll be interesting to see how it does at the box office. Much in the same way as Watchmen , this isn't a well known property outside the "comic book geek" world, and like Watchmen it's very violent. By now we know how (not) great Watchmen did at the box office ; however Wanted (another little-known comic book adapted into a violent movie) was a surprise hit at the box office, so who kn

"For me, I thought that if I shot it grittily, you'd then expect gritty shit to happen. So I thought let's do the opposite; let's make it glossy, so you could easily see these characters in SPIDER-MAN. but it's like "What would happen if Spider-Man were in the real wor

Also, despite the "cool factor," Wanted didn't manage to beat underdog summer flick The Incredible Hulk . I guess more people thought it was ridiculous ( as I did ) than thought it was "awesome, dude!". However superhero movie fans across the land can weep in unison at the fact that Hulk was not able to defeat three hip, New York City powershopping babes on the prowl for true l

As for creating comics, I actually wrote a script the other day — first script I’ve written in a few months — for Hellblazer , funnily enough...but yes, you’re quite right — Watchmen is keeping me pretty busy. But...it does make a change, being on the side that gets to say what it likes or doesn’t like about a piece of artwork, rather than being the guy who’s submitting the artwork and waiting for the feedb

This is NOT really a superhero Movie games mods|https://superheromoviespot.Com/ movie in the sense that we've come to know the genre. It's not X-Men or Spider-Man - it's not even The Dark Knight ... it's really more of a murder mystery with a bit of superhero action thrown in for fla

Also, nobody mentioned it in the Collider interview, but what about the Hollis Mason documentary Under The Hood ? It's going to be featured on the Black Freighter DVD/Blu-ray but it looks like it's not going to be spliced into the "ultimate cut" of Watchmen . That's kind of a drag: seeing Under The Hood mixed in with the theatrical film was something I was kinda looking forward to--even more than the Black Freighter scene

Dave Gibbons: First of all, I’d have to say that I don’t necessarily see that there is a conflict between staying friends with Alan and being an active and vocal promoter for the film...Alan has had some bad experiences with Hollywood. He’s also had some less-than-happy experiences with DC. He’s decided that he doesn’t want anything to do with movie adaptations of his work...When he first heard that [ Watchmen ] was going to be a movie, [he signed] a piece of paper which removed his name from the movie and [gave] his share of the income from the movie to me...Obviously, Alan made this decision before he really knew anything at all about the movie and it was long before shooting started,...it’s not as a reaction to this product

"KICK-ASS is like nothing else that I've ever done - or a lot of other people have... And I think KICK-ASS is a movie that I can guarantee you will either 100% think is a pile of dog sh**, or you're going to love it. There will be no in-between reaction to the film. It's going to be one or the oth

Head over to Watchmen Comic Movie if you want to read Pt. 1 of the Dave Gibbons interview in its entirety, then head back here to let us know if Gibbons' testimony is a glowing enough endorsement for you to have your butt firmly planted in a theater seat when Watchmen (hopefully) hits theaters on March 6, 2009. 'Til then we'll keep our ears the ground and post Pt. 2 of the Gibbons' interview as soon as it hits the

As the release date for the much-anticipated Watchmen movie draws near, the marketing machine behind the film is starting to turn its gears, hoping to lure those moviegoers not familiar with Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel into theaters next Spr

Similar to the Scream Awards , I really dig the Saturn Awards because of the types of films they celebrate. Often with awards like the Oscars and the Golden Globes, purely fun films that have every bit of merit as the serious ones get left

Zack: No. The Black Freighter version of the movie, which we call the final cut or the ultimate cut – it has a marketed name that I don’t know exactly what it is. That version of the movie, because when we were up there we physically shot the in’s and out’s, scenes at the newsstand that go into the movie. There’s like scenes where our characters pass the newsstand and then we pick up action at the newsstand and it gets us into the Black Freighter….with shots that go into it and it comes to life and you follow the Black Freighter story and then come back into the movie. That version of the movie is the director’s cut with the Black Freighter intercut. That version sort of traces the structure of the Black Freighter that's integrated into the comic book… So that version is the 3 hour and 25 minute version. So you have all those in’s and out’s…but the director’s cut includes the Hollis death stuff, that’s just a lot more connective tissue…it’s hard for me to even remember exactly what’s in it. But it’s just a lot m