Because coming back to work after a hellaciously short weekend isnt painful enough, I now present the ultimateSophies Choicescenario for sci-fi geeks and blockbuster lovers alike: View the spankin new trailers forWatchmenandStar Trekbelow, and then tell us, if you could only see one of em, which would it be?
Unlike my colleague Marc Bernardin, who blogged about theStar Trektrailer over the weekend, I am not a Trekkie/Trekker (though Im married to someone who can sometimes be found watching DVRdNext Generationepisodes when Im out of the house or asleep).
And maybe thats why even though J.J. Abrams franchise update looks exciting, I think Im gonna have to go withWatchmen.
Its trailer is decidedly dark, in both tone and color, and while that means certain scenes practically disappear from my dinky computer screen, the flashes of each character particularly Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian andThe Comebacks Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre look pretty amazing.
Im sure my excitement forWatchmenis further primed by the fact that I read Alan Moores terrific source material only a month ago, but from this vantage point,Watchmenlooks different from anything Ive seen on screen in a while.
TheStar Trektrailer, on the other hand, while it certainly has its share of adrenaline-elevating action and explosions and outer-space-y bling, might be, at certain moments, mistaken for a CW TV series (kid Kirk jumping out of convertible at cliffs edge), an Army recruitment ad (you feel like you were meant for something better, something special), and maybe even a very special episode ofBattlestar Galactica(those outer-space battle sequences).
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