10 Awesome Trailers The Movie Just Couldn't Live Up To

8. Watchmen

For a long time Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's industry-changing graphic novel was viewed as unfilmable. Watchmen was so tied to its medium in concept and style, with comics within comics and exposition heavy extra pieces making it distinct from the traditional film narrative. Also, one the characters has a massive blue wang. Of course the phrase unfilmable carries little actual weight; each year sees a bunch of impossible projects hit our screens. The problem is in the transition the spark of the source can be lost. The Book Thief heavily toned down the Death narration, Life Of Pi threw the alternate take of events in as an afterthought and David Lynch's Dune was, well, David Lynch's Dune. The big screen outing for Watchmen likewise stumbled; it worked as a stylish superhero movie, but the genre relevance and real undercurrents were lost to give the film a wider appeal; they even changed the joke about a cowboy in the White House to Ronald Reagan in case Robert Redford wasn't obvious enough. Zack Snyder had captured 300's essence to popular results, but seemed totally outclassed by Alan Moore, delivering a diverting piece of entertainment from a masterwork. The trailer, however, looked amazing. Presented in mostly slo-mo (it is Snyder) and scored to The Smashing Pumpkin's The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning (an alternate version of the song they did for Batman And Robin), it took some of the most iconic scenes from the book and live-actioned them, creating the illusion of understanding what the fans wanted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3orQKBxiEg