I don’t make it a habit to post every parody video that hoves into my view, but I thought this one was sort of cute.  The premise is that Malin Akerman’s roommate, played by Nicol Paone (who also wrote the video), has started making money on the side by giving Watchmen fans the Silk Spectre Tour.  Paone is relatively unknown, but has a part in Funny People, Judd Apatow’s next movie.  Anyway, sorta funny. But it never answers the big question: what the f-ck kind of name is “Malin”?  It sounds like something you’d do with partially digested food.
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First things first: I didn’t read the graphic novel, and though I have a vague idea what’s in it, if you’re looking an outline of all the differences between the book and the movie or how faithful the film is to the book, look elsewhere.  And anyway, it’s a movie, it’s not your boyfriend.  Queer.

Now then: the ending sucks, it’s a little too long, and by the end the story’s loose ends dangle like retarded squid tentacles (rather than being all tied up in a pretty, glitter-covered package like the strippers in my basement).  But Watchmen is a SUCCESS. It’s worth watching and re-watching despite its flaws, on the strength of the fictional universe it creates, the chances it’s willing to take, and the random people it’s willing to kill in gruesome and hilarious ways.  The film has balls.  And though it pains me to say it, Zack Snyder just might be the visionary they’ve made him out to be.

Watchmen takes place in an alternate 1985, a world in which superheroes are real and Nixon is still president (because the superheroes helped him win Vietnam, you see).  Meanwhile, these events have exacerbated the Cold War, and the world is on the brink of nuclear apocalypse.  It can’t be overstated, the setting is the star of the film.  Probably 99% of the time, what you get in movies is a cinematic universe that’s either wholly fictional, or a world that’s more or less the same as the real one.  Watchmen treads a middle line, which is different and compelling in and of itself, and for the most part it manages to get the best of worlds.  It feels familiar and the history is relevant, but it’s still an escapist fantasy in which anything can happen, and it’s okay that part of you was amused when that pregnant chick got shot (maybe? not even a little?).

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*fans face with hand*  OMG OMG, the final Watchmen poster is here!  And it’s coming out March 6th!  And the blue guy’s wearing underpants this time!

[via Yahoo]

A slew of new Watchmen (trailer here) character posters have hit the web and they’re a lot like the Spirit character posters from a while ago, except about ten times cooler.  My favorite is Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre. “I am used to going out at 3 am and doing something stupid,” she says.  I’m not sure they should be promoting that kind of lifestyle.  I would suggest adding “Sometimes I find condoms in my shit,” to make it more of a cautionary tale.

Hey, is that a Bat Liger?

Additional Dr. Manhattan poster courtesy of this guy.

Myspace has a brand new featurette about the girls of Watchmen (trailer here) starring Malin Akerman and Carla’s Guginos.  Like all featurettes, it includes plenty of interview footage in which the actors discuss the movie characters as if they were real people, and earnestly examine the psychological roots of spandex-wearing superheroes from a comic book.

“It’s funny, because I actually see a lot of myself in Lasers McFreeze.  You know, he was molested by an uncle, he was dyslexic, he hates broccoli, and throughout his life he feared confined spaces because of that time the devil banished him to a space cave.  And yet, in a way, it was those very traumas which gave him the special powers he needed to stop Gilgameth from stealing the gamma cube at Glaxon 4. So I mean, I think he’s someone we can all identify with.”