Comments on: All Along the Watchtower

By: botox Atlanta

botox Atlanta — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:25:54 +0000

Great stuff. Watchmen was awesome too.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:28:43 +0000

p.s. With the graphic scene involving Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II proving so controversial, Crave Online asks: “What about the Leonard Cohen song?”

Zack Snyder: “There are two Leonard Cohen’s because there is a Leonard Cohen on the end titles as well. Hallelujah, that love scene, I originally had the Allison Crowe version of that song, a version I’ve always loved, but in the end was just too romantic. Everybody thought that I meant it. They thought the love scene was serious, not that it isn’t serious but her version was too sexy. So I was like yeah, I’ve got to go back to the Leonard Cohen. For me it is incredibly ironic, even with that version of the song it is incredibly ironic. I don’t care what version of Hallelujah is on, that love scene it is ridiculous, but in a great way. With Leonard Cohen it is like you can’t miss it now, can you? I’m sure some people will but that is fine.”

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:43:54 +0000

Zack Snyder never considered using the familiar major-label-marketed versions of “Hallelujah”. He originally used the Tidings album version by Canadian artist Allison Crowe. Ultimately, Synder says, Crowe’s recording proved too beautiful for the quirky scene. He found the original Leonard Cohen version a tighter fit.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:57:21 +0000

It’s fun to read reviews from people who haven’t read the original material; being familiar with the miniseries (I hate how it got termed a “graphic novel” after release – as Alan Moore has said several times, it’s meant to be read as twelve individual chapters rather than a whole, since otherwise you lose some of the neater tricks he and Gibbons pulled off), I was slightly disappointed but still thought it was a very solid movie, faithful thematically if not perfectly plot-wise. I didn’t like it as much as Dark Knight simply because, I think, I’m much more of a fan of the Batman character than the Watchmen crew, but it’s still as good an adaptation of the series as you can get. For something that was considered unfilmable by much more respected directors than Snyder, that’s not that bad.

By: Lord Kitchener's Own

Lord Kitchener's Own — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:40:22 +0000

Wow.

This gives me hope for Watchmen. Now I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing it.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:27:01 +0000

I think you started mixing secret identities with actors names when introducing the characters.

And I wondered how they were going to do an alternate history yet period piece, and I am glad it worked.