My reaction to sitting through a host of trailers including Watchmen (and NO, I haven't read it, so nyaaaah) was that I am almighty sick of all these apocalyptic and post- vehicles already. Comics or not. I understand that it's clearly a reflection of current popular psyche and fears, but, eh. Just Done.
Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns were wonderful examples of sequential art. Their many many many imitators drove me crazy in the 80s, and still do today.
Watchmen is actually very much pre-apocalyptic. It's set in (an alternate history version of) the cold war era, when impending nuclear war between the superpowers was more of a going concern.
I didn't say it was post. the trailer seemed to be apocalyptic, which is all I can go on, as (as noted) I have not read Watchmen (and, actually, have never read a comic). professorbooty says it's pre-apocalyptic, so I'll defer to him, but my summary is that after watching 30 straight minutes of, fine, pre-, post-, and just plain apocalyptic trailers, I don't really want to see any of them.
It's a lot more story than can be pidgeonholed into any part of an "apocalyptic" theme, pre, post or whatever. It is a story that follows what would happen if there actually were superheroes in the world. From what would happen to these people as they age to what kinda of comic stories would people read instead of super hero comics if super heroes were a part of daily life.
My point was, lumping it in as something like Terminator would be inaccurate. You are more than welcome to not want to see it.
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My point was, lumping it in as something like Terminator would be inaccurate. You are more than welcome to not want to see it.
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