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Cloverfield92
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 		 Watchmen Arg?
Any possible start sites?
Does anyone know any possible start sites? I was watching G4's Comic con special and when they were talking about Watchmen, the guy they were inteviewing said their will definitely be a viral marketing campaign because the the success of the Dark Knight's and also to get people familar to the world of the Watchmen.

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 		Re: Watchmen Arg?
Any possible start sites?
Cloverfield92 wrote:
Does anyone know any possible start sites? I was watching G4's Comic con special and when they were talking about Watchmen, the guy they were inteviewing said their will definitely be a viral marketing campaign because the the success of the Dark Knight's and also to get people familar to the world of the Watchmen.

Lol, I just tried watchmen.com, unregistered site, and watchmen.org is a christian site, and just incase I did a whois, and it was made in '99, so I'm going to read Watchmen right now and see if there's anything memorable there and try that.

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 		watchmen is definitely an ARG friendly movie... I'll keep an eye out

EDIT: i haven't read the comic.. does this ring a bell? http://doomsdayclock.com/

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 		I actually got watchmen last week, and have yet to read it, so no clue, but http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/ here's the official site and I tried whowatchesthewatchmen.org, nope and .com too
but can anyone hear what the people are saying in the background, "we want ___" It's after the trailer.

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 		i dunno, but the painting on the window says "who watches the watchmen"

which promptly explodes

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madamimadam wrote:
i dunno, but the painting on the window says "who watches the watchmen"

which promptly explodes


That is straight from the comic.
Pretty much from the begining of the comic you will see "who watches the watchmen" on walls. It's how the book got it's name. It's from the quote "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes." (Quoted as the epigraph of the 1987 Tower Commission Report, on the last page of the comic book trade.)

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madamimadam wrote:
i dunno, but the painting on the window says "who watches the watchmen"

which promptly explodes


Saw that and tried the .org,.com, and .net, nothing. But thing that caught my eye, is the underneath, the posters of the women on the playing cards. KAJKQ_ can't tell the other one but it looks like another Q, I don't know if it means anything, but just pointing it out. Also, it's club, club, diamond, Heart, and maybe a spade, that last card is really blurred, I doubt it has anything to with anything, but you know, just saying.


EDIT: Last one is an ace of spades, just noticed.

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Cloverfield92
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 		idk if anybody noticed, but the time of the doomsday clock on the posters are all different

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Cloverfield92 wrote:
idk if anybody noticed, but the time of the doomsday clock on the posters are all different

What posters? I don't see any anywhere?

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 		There was a contest on YouTube asking users to create a commercial for the company Veidt to be used in the Watchmen movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watchmenmovie

The contest is over now, but there is a bunch of content there.

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 		I dunno what the site may be, but I've at least found out what it's not. Just thought I'd share, so no one has to go down the same path. Both http://www.theveidtmethod.com and http://www.rorschachsjournal.com were suspected viral sites from 2007 that were finally traced to an avid fan.
From here: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/07/who_will_virally_market_the_wa.html
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The long-anticipated movie of Watchmen, considered by many the definitive graphic novel of all time, by Zack Snyder, director of megahit 300, promises to be a nerd-culture event of the highest degree. So movie and comics blogs got pretty excited when two Websites popped up seemingly related to the Warner Brothers film. One, Rorschachs Journal, was unveiled via an e-mail to Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles from one of the comic's characters, mad vigilante Rorschach. The other, the Veidt Method, popped up a few days later and was couched as an online advertisement for another of the book's characters, Adrian Veidt.

But then people noticed that the sites were kind of crappy. Rorschachs Journal is a weird combination of blog posts in Rorschach's voice and overexcited casting rumors. The Veidt Method is riddled with grammatical errors and empty pages. And both domains are registered to Michael Regina, the man behind TheOneRing.net, the Lord of the Rings fan site that turned into New Line's most-favored outlet for leaks and photos from Peter Jackson's trilogy.

So what's going on here? Apparently these aren't "real" viral-marketing sites, made at Warner Brothers' behest. Is Regina, as CHUD.com accused, using the sites to try and convince Warner Brothers to hire him to create their viral-marketing campaign? Or are they, as Regina claimed in an angry rebuttal on Wednesday, simply sites he created on his own because he's a Watchmen fan?

Let's hope it's the last, because the sites are embarrassingly lousy. But the very idea of them has so inflamed the comics and movie worlds that the bar has been set pretty high for whatever marketing campaign Warner Brothers does create. What does it say about the movie world circa 2007 that we're just as excited about Watchmen's marketing campaign as we are about Watchmen itself?


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 		It's also not anything with theendisnigh, tried it, .org sends you to this weird, The dragon's eye is watching you, site, it was kinda weird, but nothing happening there.

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 		Tried looking into the Keene Act, It's an act in the Watchmen universe in that all vigilantes are illegal, think the superhero registration act for marvel. I figured if the ARG is supposed to give us insight on the universe, that would be a good place to start, but nothing.

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Cloverfield92
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 		the viral probably hasn't started yet, so probably no viral sites have been made yet

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Colori
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 		Hm. I wonder if we're on the right track with whowatchesthewatchmen.com, but maybe part of it needs to be taken out? That was one of the wierd things in the comic book- you never saw the whole phrase, part of it was always covered up by something. (I'm a big watchmen fan, so I hope this starts soon.)

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