“Now at midnight all the agents, and the superhuman crew, come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do.” One year out from its release date, Zack Snyder releases some character stills of the Watchmen. I like the three above quite a bit (particularly the pitch-perfect, G. Gordon Liddyesque gleam to the Comedian.) But, imho, Ozymandias didn’t really pan out (Matthew Goode looks way too young), nor did Malin Ackerman’s Silk Spectre. (Besides looking rather generic and X-Men-ish, she seems way too tall and modelly for Ms. Juspeczyk.) As yet unseen, Carla Gugino’s Mama Spectre and — perhaps the real make-or-break’er — Billy Crudup’s Dr. Manhattan.
While Ozy looks a little too Milo Vblahblahi from “Heroes,” I like that he apparently (according to Vulture) has nipples because it, combined with the Nite Owl costume and photo, seems to confirm that Snyder has done the smartest thing possible: translated a revisionist comic book genre piece into a revisionist comic book movie genre piece. He needs to comment back to the movie interpretations of the texts rather than the texts themselves in order for the film to work as successfully as the graphic novel.
As for Silk, she looks infinitely less silly than she should in the real world. Everything so far has been pretty spot-on for me, which I think is the first time I can say that for the pre-release of comic book movie since Spidey and some X1 and X2 stuff.