Watch This: Japanese 'Watchmen' Trailer

Why hasn't there been a new production diary video today. Is this a possble sign of a release date delay?

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That was pretty impressive... If I had to guess, I'd say the Nixon and friends stuff has been left out of the American trailer just because of the current political climate, they probably didn't want to focus on it and instead, as you say, stick to the heroics.

But it really is interesting to see the difference in domestic and international trailers. I was baffled by the jumps back and forth between english and japanese but other then that, it was an incredibly effective trailer.



And as a side note to rjbnzisngr2008, they released a video focusing on the Characters a few days ago. It was the first to break the 6th tradition but it did come out. It was one of the best yet actually. Granted that could just be because I streamed it in HD on my TV and got my first REAL look at how gorgeous the whole thing is.

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I've been wanting to see Wolverine but if Fox screws with Watchmen's release I will not pay to see Wolverine, I'll see it some other way.

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so...is there anyway to find out what the voice over said or what some of the text said. it might give insight to why the political stuff was being emphasized.

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I guess if we never get to see this, we will have to combine all of the trailers and create our own film!

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The Japanese are surely less familiar with the original comic book... the trailer clearly presents Watchmen as an alternate history/sci-fi movie rather than a superhero movie (notice the lack of Jon Osterman scenes).

I suppose it is an attempt to appeal to the general Japanese audience rather than comic book fans alone... this might have been a good tactic outside Japan as well, actually.

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jesus...there shouldn't be any doubt in anyones mind that this movie is going to be simply amazing..snyder has managed to capture this Novel perfectly, like scary perfect!...just simply amazing!

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ウォッチメン予告編!!!!

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EASILY better than any of the American trailers. This one gives me hope that the flick might actually be decent.

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Kiss your ' squid ' goobye. It ain't happenin'.
The trailer just told you so.
I'll be fucked if that's NOT Ozymandias pushing that cheezy play doe ' red button'. I'll be fucked if one of those last shots was NOT the very iconic one with the newspaper vendor hugging the ' Pirate ' comic reading kid.
And I'll be fucked if that's NOT the Dr. Manhattan ' energy signature ' idiocy ripping them to pieces from the sky.

Yet ironically, this is the first trailer I've seen that makes it look like an ACTUAL movie; and not some ' video game sequence ' of a pretension on celluloid. It may just be a functional one from start to finish.

I'm giving up on any expectations this would match the Alan Moore original novel ( it certainly fricking drops the ball on the damn ending already, though let's see if there would still be bits of it that could be, in the least salvageable ). Yet we could at least count on this imbibing the novel's spirit; it's unique audacity and conceit not being lost on the work by any significant stretch.

This definitely ain't gonna be a literal page-by-page translation, but it's much of what we're hoping for anyways, right ?

Dammit.

P.S. Oddly enough, this is beginning to feel a lot more like the ' David Hayter/ Paul Greengrass ' Watchmen on script, than a Zach Snyder style xeroxed one. It's that subdued, intermittently morose, gray toned, low key vibe I'm getting off this light. And having read that Third Draft David Hayter script Alan Moore was so fond of for some reason, I ain't enthused much.

There were a lot of disagreeable furnishes Mr. Hayter did that I don't agree with ( and guess it's really Snyder who makes the good call in the end in plain moving the damn thing back to 1985, if the novel's where they're at, anyways. And getting rid of ' Spitfire ' ); most of which looks like it would make it on screen Ah well. It's not 100 % the Watchmen I know, but it may end up working in its tone enough to be appreciated. And hopefully get them in on the real deal.

Regardless, expanding the scope of casualty to worldwide THAT way is a horrible, horrible mistake.

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Here's the rough voice-over and motto translation for those who's wondering:

"In the midst of all the war and terror in the past, there was a group of heroes being known as Watchmen..."

"Some have continued to fight the war..."
"Some have vanished..."

すべては一人の男の暗殺から始まった: Everything was to begin from an assasination of a man...

事件を追う＜顔の無い謎の男＞: Chasing the clues behind the assassination

次々と消されるヒーロー達: One bye one heroes are killed off...

明らかになる　ウォッチメンの真実: The truth behind the Watchmen is about to be surfaced...

"For what cause/reason would the Watchmen be targeted?"

"Who planned the unimaginable plan against the Watchmen?"

巨大な陰謀が動き出す: The unforeseen conspiracy begins to be executed...

[300]の監督が放つ驚愕のビジュアルワールド: Spectacular visual world unleashed by the director of 300...

正義が: "Will the justice..." 世界を救うのか: "save the world?..."

滅ぼすのか: "or destroy it?..."

知ってはならない　真実がある: There lies a forbidden truth...


Hope that paints a better picture on the approach they went with this Japanese version of trailer...

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just to add few more on one of the translation:

事件を追う＜顔の無い謎の男＞: Chasing the clues behind the assassination

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Sorry didn't add the change

事件を追う＜顔の無い謎の男＞: Chasing the clues behind the assassination ＜faceless mysterious man...Rorschach＞

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