The Shrine

I think that they will make a deal and have it launch on time. Fox doesn't want to kill it. They just want their cut.

I'm with Sine here. This will be like The Hobbit where they're just establishing who gets what. The movie's basically done now, Fox just wants their cut

Are you KIDDING me? This is the most anticipated movie BY FAR of 2009, what makes you think it's in danger at all? Obviously it'll be out in mid year as promised.

Dude gets bonus points for wearing a SW Imperial emblem shirt, haha.

Tessian wrote:Are you KIDDING me? This is the most anticipated movie BY FAR of 2009, what makes you think it's in danger at all? Obviously it'll be out in mid year as promised.

Dude gets bonus points for wearing a SW Imperial emblem shirt, haha.

By far? Meh.

Yes, by far. Unless you have another movie pick.

The Watchmen are not Spider-man or Batman, nobody knows who the fuck The Watchmen are, it is hardly the most anticipated movie of 2009.

There's a lot of people who don't know what Naruto or Bleach or One Piece are, either.

SineSwiper wrote:There's a lot of people who don't know what Naruto or Bleach or One Piece are, either.

Is there a point to this random statement? lol.

Eric wrote:The Watchmen are not Spider-man or Batman, nobody knows who the fuck The Watchmen are, it is hardly the most anticipated movie of 2009.

Since the first trailer came out the book has gone through more printings than anything I can ever remember. it's fucking scary. The shop I'm working at now has sold hundreds of copies since then and before that it was kind of the bok you had a couple of on a display on the counter....now they just fly off the shelf.....whether it's the hundred dollar absolute editions (First absolute edition to be reprinted) the gorgeous new hardcover (already into multiple printings) or the old trade (also multiple printings since the comic-con trailer)

yes there is hype...enough hype to actually bring poeple into comic shops which is something I have never seen with a comic book movie before......at least to this level....a few poeple came in looking for Sin City after that one and 300 but really comic movies don't attract much intrest into making the books actually sell. Until now....It's fucking scary how much it's selling and it's catching a lot of people off guard....

It's the most anticipated movie among nerds. Among normals? They've never heard of it.

They will when it comes out. Then even more comic books will be flying off the shelves.

Kupek wrote:It's the most anticipated movie among nerds. Among normals? They've never heard of it.

except for the sales of over a million copise since the trailer came out. the book averages around 50,000 a year combined in comic and retail/internet stores....last year it sold 100,000 in retail/internet and a little over 20 in comic shops and in 2008 it sold through a ridonculous print run and has sold it's usual retail numbers in comic shops alone. over a million sales in a year for a story that's 20 years old is fucking amazing. a million copies in a year between comic shops and retail.....that's unheard of...up till this point the highest saled for a trade has been under a hundred thousand. that sure as hell ain't just nerds this time around.....

The trailers and hype alone have garnered a huge interest in the book-- much moreso I'd imagine than LOTR trilogy did (as it's not NEARLY as long, and not as nerdy). Hell I'm one of those people. If you get passed the fact that it's a comic, there's really not much scifi/fantasy to it outside of Dr Manhattan, as well, so it's not like it's only for nerds or something. If anything it'll speak more to those who lived through the cold war than those who didn't... assuming the movie keeps all that intact.

So yes, I stand by my claim that it is currently the most anticipated movie of '09 by far.

There's a lot of nerds who never read the book because it was before their time - I was one of them. I read it before I knew about the movie, but only because a friend of mine gave it to me as a present. The movie probably spurred a lot of people who thought "I should read that at some point" to actually do it.

We're unable of assessing how effective the hype for a comic book movie has made it into the mainstream is because we're part of the demographic that knew about it before the hype. Our perspective is skewed.

yes but sales numbers aren't...the demand is there. there aren't a million nerds who are interested. especially who don't have it. this year alone it's sold more copies than any other TPB or OGN in the history of the medium. that' only if you count sales since the trailer came out....that's not just nerds looking fr it....that's bringing in actual outside intrest. God I hope the movie is good because at this point it already has brought new poeple to comics unlike other comic movies which have caused absolutely no rising sales intrest. it's unprecedented what's been happening with the book. Tessian wins.....

Chris wrote:there aren't a million nerds who are interested.

That's exactly the point I was contesting. But we don't have data either way.

My parents went to go see the Day the Earth Stood Still last week... and all my mom had to say about it when I asked her was "Have you read the Watchmen?" She'd never heard of the movie before, but saw the trailer before DESS and liked it enough that she didn't even bother talking about the movie she had actually seen. She's never really read comic books, but she is an avid reader, so she asked to borrow my copy of the book and I gladly obliged.

Just another antecdote about the hype of that movie-- it's powerful enough to appeal to most people, and yet it's not a comic people have heard of. Even if you're not a comic book nerd everyone knows about Batman, Superman, Spiderman... but nobody knows about the Watchmen. So they see the trailer and it garners interest to read this mysterious novel that somehow slipped by them unnoticed.

Chris, you can take your panties out of a knot now

http://movies.ign.com/articles/945/945714p1.html

Told you.