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...suffered from want of robustness and intensity. In a season-opener—and with an opera that has not been performed in the Boston area for 25 years—the performers should have been drunk from the first-night excitement. But most of them merely seemed hung-over.Daniel Snyder, in the leading role of Max, sang with far more urgency than he acted. His movement and expression were often as wooden as the butt of his hunting rifle, which, for a character whose inner psychological turmoil is at the center of the opera, was not welcome. In the opera?...
Thousands of fanboys and fangirls awaiting their Citizen Kane stormed the San Diego Convention Center on July 25 to see advance footage of WATCHMEN, directed by Zack Snyder (300) and due in theaters next March. Based on Alan Moore's graphic novel--which TIME's critics named one of the 100 best novels since the magazine's founding in 1923--the film is set in an alternate 1980s world where Richard Nixon is still President, cold war tensions run high and superheroes are being murdered. Snyder's teaser showed arresting visuals of the giant blue Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) atomizing...
...Most Missed: Alan Moore. The Hollywood-averse Watchmen creator wants no part of Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation of his graphic novel, but the movie's building buzz has won Moore lots of new fans. Opening night of the Con, comic-book vendors had stacks of the book on their tables. By Saturday, there wasn't a copy of Watchmen to be found. And a new generation of fanboys and -girls was being minted page by page...
...dressed as Rorschach, complete with mask, asked the panel about the evolution of comic-book films for a more mature audience. "It's just cool you're saying 'a more mature audience' with that outfit on," said Snyder. The director said he fully embraced the book's nihilist themes. "We never really thought, 'Oh, gosh, is the movie too dark? Are we gonna be plotting down this dark road so far that people slit their wrists and call it a day in the theater? You have these optimistic characters in the movie that are trying to muddle through...
...convention floor, visitors got a chance to take a closer look at the Owl Ship that Snyder's crew built for the Vancouver production, which came outfitted with an 8-track player and coffeemaker...