{"id":383,"date":"2008-07-19T22:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T05:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-07-19T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T05:37:52","slug":"watchmen-trailer-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Watchmen trailer and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Watchmen <\/em>hype is heating up. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=224\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned in the past<\/a> that I&#8217;m an obsessive fan so this is a time of great hoopla. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/watchmen\/\" target=\"_blank\">trailer <\/a>was released, the <a href=\"http:\/\/watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> has launched into something resembling a promotional destination, and it&#8217;s t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20213273,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">his week&#8217;s cover story of <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>. Most importantly, the old merch is starting to show up on eBay for <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/RARE-1980s-Alan-Moore-WATCHMEN-Bloody-Smiley-Face-WATCH_W0QQitemZ300102842634QQihZ020QQcategoryZ48776QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247\" target=\"_blank\">stupid prices<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/persistenceofvision.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan <\/a>&#8212; the guy who mentored me into a life of <em>Watchmen<\/em>, the way vampires add new recruits to the family &#8212; owned that back in the day.)<\/p>\n<p>Ethan noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20213004,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Moore is now and forever unhappy about the movie<\/a> but as a diehard fan, I like everything I&#8217;m seeing. The trailer shows that they used the comic as a storyboard for shooting &#8212; which is exactly what I think needed to happen. The fact that I could say the lines along with the trailer the first time I saw it says something. Zack Snyder is keeping it real, as the kids say. It may have flaws when it&#8217;s done but it will have been attempted in the proper spirit, so on some level, I think it already wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watchmen hype is heating up. I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past that I&#8217;m an obsessive fan so this is a time of great hoopla. The trailer was released, the website has launched into something resembling a promotional destination, and it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}