HEY! YOU! You’re getting paid to do your job — not sit at your desk and surreptitiously read PopWatch. And don’t try to close your Web browser and feign innocence, either — it’s too late for those kinds of shenanigans. As your punishment, I present you with the following painful scenario: Let’s say you were only allowed to see one of the following hotly anticipated, big-budget action flicks — Watchmen, Terminator: Salvation, or The Spirit. Which would you choose, PopWatchers? Which would you choose?
Me? I think I’d have to go with Watchmen. I’m not a comic-book geek, but my husband is, and he’s been all "squee squee squee" about this movie since he heard it was going into production. Our recent EW cover story about the movie (click here to read it, and here for related Q&As on our Comic-Con hub) got me even more excited, and the presence of Malin Akerman, who was pitch-perfect as Juna on The Comeback, is like peanut-butter sauce on an already delicious hot-fudge sundae. [Insert stomach growl here. And yes, I know my obsession with Lisa Kudrow's short-lived HBO obliterates my geek cred. So what?] The special effects look terrific (love Dr. Manhattan zapping that dude from behind) and there’s a sense of foreboding in the trailer that sticks with you long after you’ve finished watching. Better still, since the movie doesn’t hit till Mach 2009, I can read the graphic novel on which it’s based beforehand.
First runner-up goes to The Spirit, which looks like a rather sumptuous feast for the eyes (and I’m not referring to its sex-on-a-stick stars Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, and S-c-a-r-l-e-t-t J-o-h-a-n-s-s-o-n, either), but the very end of the trailer gave me a split-second flashback to The Cell, and knocked it officially into second place.
As for Terminator: Salvation, well, I need to see a little bit more to get excited. I sat through all nine episodes of Fox’s good-not-great Sarah Connor Chronicles this spring, so maybe it lowered my threshold for Terminator-related entertrainment, but somehow I feel like this is just a variation on a theme I’ve already heard.
Okay, so now it’s your turn, you procrastinating, unproductive employees of The Man. Pick a team: Watchmen, Terminator: Salvation, or The Spirit. And no waffling, please!
I’ll go for Terminator:Salvation. I have absolutely no knowledge of or interest in Watchmen, since I don’t care much about comics, and The Spirit frankly doesn’t look like anything more than a Sin City wannabe. Give me Christian Bale as badass adult John Connor anyday.
Uh, “Watchmen”, for sure…duh…
I’m looking forward to “The Spirit”, I think, but I LOVE “Watchmen” the graphic novel and the movie looks good so far.
i’m going for the spirit, but only because i see your malin akerman and raise you one sara paulson.
Watchmen, no doubt.
Um, Watchmen, no comment. Going into the theater to see Dark Knight I was almost as excited for the Watchmen trailer as I was for the movie itself.
Watchmen!!!
my dearest Slezak,
i, much like your hubby, have been driving my boyfriend crazy by squealing like a little girl whenever anyone or anything mentions the word ‘watchmen’..
so there you have my answer..
kisses!
Same order as you, Slezak, though I have read Watchmen and therefore my excitement is probably higher.
Minutiae, your comment about The Spirit is a bit silly: Frank Miller is directing it, and you may (or may not, who knows) remember him as the creator of Sin City, as well as Robert Rodriguez’s co-director on the film.
I have pretty much no desire to see the new Terminator flick. Like none. And I’m not even sure why…
I would’ve picked “The Watchmen”, but they’ve covered up the equally-yummy Billy Crudup with a costume so I don’t know. I’d probably pick all three.
WatchMen
No contest here. I’m watching the Watchmen.
Watchmen
Really sick of comic book movies. Give me Terminator.
“Minutiae, your comment about The Spirit is a bit silly: Frank Miller is directing it, and you may (or may not, who knows) remember him as the creator of Sin City, as well as Robert Rodriguez’s co-director on the film.”
Yes, I’m well aware, and don’t think my comment’s silly at all. It looks like they’re trying to go back to the same visual well as SC to get a similar hit, and I have no interest in it.
I am excited for all three of these big-budget flicks, but if I had to choose, I have to pick “Watchmen,” since it comes out on my birthday (sorry Christian Bale).