Watchmen on Nightly News
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This excerpt from a 1970 edition of NBS Nightly News (anchored by NBS stalwart Ted Philips) features a special report from co-anchor Jim Sizemore looking back at ten years of Dr. Manhattan.
I’m telling you this movie is looking better and better. March 2009 is not that far away.
Better Blue Than Red, 10 years of Dr. Manhattan
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The Watchmen viral website, The New Frontiersman, may seem like a necessity in these days of the Internets, and so, too, might be this backgrounder flavor video Better Blue Than Red, 10 years of Dr. Manhattan, but....damn, my fanboy senses are tingling. ...
NBS Celebrates 10 Years Of Dr. Manhattan [Dr. Manhattan Video]
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"Better blue than red," say the citizens of Alan Moore's alternate Watchmen universe. Tune into the viral-marketing NBS TV station, and learn everything you've ever wanted to know about the atomic hero Dr. Manhattan.
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10 Years of Doctor Manhattan
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Around the Web: Star Trek Barbies, 1000 novels everyone must read, and a knitted brain
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... Fanboys release date announced - The date is set: February 6th.
More Coraline features - There are some nice featurettes up here, and a lovely poster and bookmark encouraging reading.
Razzies announced - Guess who is receiving the Worst Career Achievement Razzie?
The T-1000 is here! - Nitinol wire, a shape memory alloy, can reform when exposed to heat.
NBC Nightly News with Ted Phillips, March 11, 1970 - I told you these promos weren’t ...
“The Superman Exists, and He’s American”: Faux-vintage Watchmen Goodies
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Judging from the amount of times it has popped up in my inbox over the last few days, I think it’s fair to say that the new vintage newscast featuring a retrospective on Dr. Manhattan ten years after his public debut has been sweeping through Watchmen fandom like a big blue, freaky, naked tidal wave. Or something. Regardless of how you felt about the trailer, the faux-news item certainly feels more immediately drawn from the graphic novel than anything we’ve seen so far, inspiring even further confidence that this movie might actually get things right (instead of breaking millions of little nerd-hearts faster than you can say The League of ...
Sci-Fi Saturday: Dark Knight, Watchmen, Iron Man, Doctor Who, Caprica, Lost, Fringe + more
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Sci-Fi Saturday: Dark Knight, Watchmen, Iron Man, Doctor Who, Caprica, Lost, Fringe + more January 24, 2009 by Rosario T. Calabria , Filed under: Sci-Fi , trackback [image] The big thing in genre news this week was the amazing lack of Dark Knight nominations at the Oscars, but we also have updates on Watchmen and Iron Man 2 and a ton of new previews, including Fanboys . In TV news we have an updates on the Doctor Who Easter Special and Caprica , plus previews and images, including Lost , Fringe and more. MOVIE NEWS Benjamin Button Leads Oscar Field with 13 Nominations Well, the nominations for the 81st Academy Awards have been ...
we are all of us living in the shadow of manhattan
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Um. Wow.
Even if you're not counting down the minutes until Watchmen comes out, if you are of a certain age, this is pretty much a perfect recreation of the time it's supposed to be, well, recreating. My nostalgia centers are currently well above the flood stage, and it's not just because of the production quality. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the dialog is taken almost directly from the book I loved and read over and over as a teenager, but I don't have time to take mine out and fact check at the moment.
Still. Wow.
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