Watchmen Achieves Hot-Shit Status
This entry was posted on 2/19/2009 6:40 PM and is filed under Musings.
How do I know that
Watchmen,
its release problems now settled, is going
to print mad money when it opens March 6? Because I saw it last night and its screenings — and
when various industry players get to see the film — have become referendums on reputation, power and pull. It's achieved
hot-shit status to folks who wouldn't know the graphic novel source material from Batman. Director Zack Snyder killed it with
300, to the tune of more than $450 million worldwide, and that accrued cred plus the Internet geek factor give
Watchmen some
Dark Knight-type momentum; even at two hours and 42 minutes, it should be
the biggest R-rated grosser of 2009, easy. And no, none of the above is directed at any of my pals screening the film
this evening; just more of a general realization-type thing, after overhearing various studio suits and chest-puffed-out below-the-liners. More soon...
