The new Watchmen trailer is yet another double-barrel of awesomeness. More and more it appears director Zack Snyder has nailed it. Before I go into the obligatory geekasm as to how excited I am to see Snyder bring graphic illustrators Moore and Gibbons's vision to the big screen, I'd like to get something else off my chest. I really, really like Zack Snyder's trailers. I think he should extend them. Make them like an hour long. Hell, two hours long.

They're consistently entertaining and teasing. They make me want to see more, even just for their use of music. I honestly don't remember the Dawn of the Dead remake trailer, so that may be the exception (though I remember thinking it was pretty cool); though, I definitely recall the use of NIN's "Just Like You Imagined" in that wicked 300 trailer. (And since we're on the subject, can I just say The Fragile ... yeah, it's Trent Reznor's greatest work. Take that you Downward Spiralians!) Then Snyder dipped into Batman Forever-land of all places and grabbed "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" (which should not be confused with the similar, faster "The End is the Beginning is the End") for that initial Watchmen trailer that had us all salivating.

And now he digs into two big treasure troves when it comes to great trailer music: Philip Glass and Muse. The new Watchmen trailer begins with Glass's ominous, haunting "Prophecies", which some may recognize from the film Koyaanisqatsi (I didn't). Then he went with Muse's "Take a Bow", working beautifully with the stylish, end-is-nigh world Snyder is translating. But I would argue that you could probably take any movie, throw Muse on the trailer track and it would make me want to go see it. I might have already seen The Duchess if it had been underscored with, say, ""Ruled by Secrecy".

I don't know what other musical experiments Snyder is going to be playing with in his future endeavors, but I can imagine a world where Modest Mouse's ""Parting of the Sensory" jams to images of another graphic novel brought to life. Maybe Snyder should just make one big movie that is packed with movie trailers cut to the tunes of innovative rock? I know I'd go see that. We could work out the details of the movies themselves later.

We got to hear more than cool music in this trailer. Many of our Watchmen speak for the first time here. I was wondering if they were going to do anything to Billy Crudup's Dr. Manhattan voice, but it doesn't appear that they will. I'm still a little worried about all of the slow-mo. But the more I see of Rorschach, The Comedian and Dan Dreiberg, the more I admire the casting. Really, is there any doubt that audiences are going to go Rorschach-crazy when this baby debuts in March? No, and there's no doubt the marketing hasn't been top-notch up to this point. We're still watching. And listening. And waiting.

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