toms an ok actor but would have given the movie the wrong kind of hype and bad Scientology mojo.

Snyder will do us good. he's a fellow nerd. and judging on those clips I posted he did great. Used the same colours from the panels and everything.

I'll take 7 of this.

Trailer to Comic breakdown. Shot for shot, some small unimportant differences.
http://www.empireonline.com/trailer/breakdown/watchmen/

I just about fell outta my seat watching the previews for this before the Batman movie.

Very cool piece. It's funny, when somebody does a film based on a book they have some play in what everything should look like but with comic books you really have a pretty solid set of visual rules you shouldn't break.

I just really like how the colours used in the movie are the same scheme as from the comic book. We did a unit in art class about colour schemes and I brought in my comic collection, and every one had to pick a comic, redraw a panel and illustrate where colours were and what scheme it was, what mood that gave off in context to the plot. It was a really interesting little project and taught me a lot.

a guy called "Nite Owl" with no superpowers who wears a black suit with pointy ears and has a nemesis called "The Comedian"....

Anyone see any paralells here?

A lot of the characters have similarities to more famous counterparts and quite a few are generic. The story started during WWII where they were putting teams together (ala The Avengers) and it's their personal stories and interaction that made the graphic novel so compelling. Night Owl (actually the 2nd Night Owl) has been long retired in the present setting of the movie.
The Comedian is actually a good guy, but it is a stretch calling the man himself that as he's deplorable. I believe it was Rorsarch that said he respected him the most because he knew the difference between good and evil, but he just didn't care.
My inner comic book geek has awoken for this. After 2 disappointing Punishers and a joke of a Judge Dredd movie, I finally have hope that one of the few comics I read religiously will me done correctly :D
CK

I'm not saying "watchmen" sucks or anything (its actually pretty good) just pointing out the "Batman" derivative.....aspect of it.

Must be something wrong with me casue I'm just not that impressed with what I've seen so far.Nothing has really caught my eye or made me say wow or anything.