NEW WATCHMEN TRAILER

The second Watchman trailer, due to premiere today in front of "Quantum of Solace", hit teh net last night, and I think we’re close enough now for me to admit this thing gives me a hard on. I could never make it through the book, but being online so much has atrophied my brain down to a nub so I don’t think that should count against them. If a normal brain looks like an owl with glasses and a graduation cap and a stick to point at things on the board, mine is that monkey who pee’d in his own mouth.

I feel compelled to cram in my gushing love letter to Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach.  It's Kelly Leak.  Kelly Leak god dammit!  How can you not love a guy who survives this awful fucking town.  Huge star in his teens, then didn’t have a single role from 1993 to 2006.  For 13 years he drove limos, finished furniture, and delivered pizzas, now he is to Watchmen what Wolverine is to X-Men.  Am I the only one who finds that amazing?  People come to LA and say, "I'll give it 6 months and see how it goes".  13 years!  The dude failed for 13 god damn years, yet still killed it when someone finally gave him a chance.  His Hollywood comeback couldn’t be any more dramatic unless he did riding a 10-story robot that looks like a tiger.

(Songy Trivia! Music over the second half = "Take A Bow", by Muse)