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!
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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).
Watchmen
Watchmen looks the best, no contest.
Watchmen. Been hearing about this movie for a little while. Then I saw the trailer. I watched it about 5 times and then went straight to Amazon to view the graphic novel. I read the first few pages and ordered it right away. It hasn’t arrived in the mail yet. Maybe today…*crossing my fingers*
Well, Minutiae, since ‘The Spirit’ is from the same man that wrote and co-directed Sin City and started the comic relaunch of the Spirit, it should look close to Sin City.
No contest…Watchmen. Then T4. I’m not even going to bother with The Spirit. The trailer, the teaser and the website conspired to convince me that it will be a steaming pile of crap. I love Miller as a writer. as a director…he needs a stronger personality reigning him in.
Team Watchmen, all the way.
Slezak, be complimented that we spend our “60 second vacations” at Popwatch. Okay, so some of those “vacations” are longer than sixty seconds, but still.
As for the movies, I’m interested in none of them. I’m not a comic book geek, so I don’t know anything about any of them. However, you’re not alone in missing The Comeback, Slezak. Why oh why did HBO cancel that show?!
Watchman! Watchman! Watchman! Watchman! Watchman!
After seeing the trailer on the big screen before Dark Knight I went home and reread the whole series. The more I read about the movie (almost 3 hours long) the more I know I will like it.
The Spirit looks horrible…and while some people are saying this is the guy who gave us 300, Frank Miller also gave us Robocop 3 (written and directed).
I will probably see it anyway for the eye candy.
Will not see T4 till dvd, McG stinks on ice and I wont be paramount to contributing to the cesspool of movie making that is him.
TERMINTATOR. Xtian bale is yummy. Watchman is a little intruiging, but I heard that my fav, JDM (jeffrey dean morgan) dies early on, so that it depressing. no interest in the spirit – frank miller is ghastly.
sorry to all the fans, but I think watchmen looks yeck. ick. pbt.
the spirit looks exactly like sin city. i get staying with what was successful for you, but….it literally looks exactly the same (appearance-wise, not story wise I mean).
I guess terminator holds the most promise with me. gotta admit, i’d miss arnold though. wouldn’t be the same without him. hopefully they don’t go all star wars episodes I-III and make it look nothing at all like the originals. It’s gotta have that same feel.
watchmen all the way!!!
Hey Sleazak – I don’t wanna see that!!! I heart the Comeback.
Not really. I want to see them all, but Watchmen is the winner no contest.
Definitely Terminator, solely for Christian Bale, the Watchman and Spirit previews scared me to death.
Watchmen hands down, I hope Snyder delivers…
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, waffles……… Okay, back to work.