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)
