Watchmen: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0883929057795
Feature: WATCHMEN SPECIAL EDITION (DVD MOVIE)
Format: Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 1000089594
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Running Time: 186 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Features:- WATCHMEN SPECIAL EDITION (DVD MOVIE)
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Editorial Review:Product Description:Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/21/2009 Rating: R
Amazon.com:Everybody's favorite graphic novel comes to the screen (after years of rumors and false starts), less a roaring work of adaptation than a respectful and faithful take on a radical original.
Watchmen is set in the mid-1980s, a time of increased nuclear tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, as Richard Nixon is enjoying his fifth term as president and the world's superheroes have been forcibly retired. (As you can probably tell, the mix of authentic history and alternate reality is heady.) Things begin with a bang: the mysterious high-rise murder of the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a masked hero with a checkered past, puts the rest of the retired superhero community on alert. The credits sequence, a series of tableaux that wittily catches us up on crime-fighting backstory, actually turns out to be the high point of the movie. Thereafter we meet the other caped and hooded avengers: the furious Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), the inexplicably naked Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup, amidst much blue-skinned, genital-swinging digital work), Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman), Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson), and Ozymandias (Matthew Goode). The corkscrewing storytelling, which worked well in the comic book, gives the movie the strange sense of never quite getting in gear, even as some of the episodes are arresting. Director Zack Snyder (
300) doesn't try to approximate the electric impact of the original (written by Alan Moore--who declined to be credited on the movie--and illustrated by Dave Gibbons) but retains careful fidelity to his source material. That doesn't feel right, even with the generally enjoyable roll-out of anecdotes. Even less forgivable is the blah acting, excepting Jeffrey Dean Morgan (lusty) and Patrick Wilson (mellow).
Watchmen certainly fills the eyes, although less so the ears: the song choices are regrettable, especially during an embarrassing mid-air coupling between Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II as they unite their--ah--Roman numerals. In the end it feels as though a huge work of transcription has been successfully completed, which isn't the same as making a full-blooded movie experience.
--Robert HortonAlso on the disc The extended director's cut restores 24 minutes of connective tissue to the 162-minute film, most significantly the last scene of Hollis Mason, the first Nite Owl. Other elements help restore and fill in details that had been in the graphic novel. Fans of the film will be glad for the extra footage but there's nothing momentous that will change anyone's basic like or dislike of the film.
The second disc has the documentary "The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics," 29 min.), which looks at the original graphic novel and its themes, and interviews artist Dave Gibbons, DC Comics executives Jenette Kahn and Paul Levitz, and cast and crew, illustrating its points with scenes from the movie, panels from the graphic novel, and parts of the motion comic. There's also My Chemical Romance's "Desolation Row" music video and the 11 video journals that helped stir up excitement leading up to the theatrical run. No longer available is a Digital Copy of the film (compatible with both iTunes and Windows Media; download code expires July 21, 2010)l.
--David Horiuchi
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This is the best superhero movie I've seen since The Dark Knight, and that's saying something. Watchmen is surely one of the best superhero movies ever made, and is almost all the way up there with The Dark Knight. The story is great, and it's clear that the actors dedicated themselves to make this movie turn out the way it did.
The video is top quality, as well as the sound. Highly recommended for all you superhero fans out there.
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DVD came in pristine condition, and the movie itself is genius. It's a great film.
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Look, if you've been reading the reviews you no doubt have noticed people bash this movie like it's the worst movie ever made. When I first saw the film at the theatre I wasn't impressed at all with the movie until the epic conclusion. But once I bought and read the book and purchased the blu-ray afterward, the movie just was fantastic. Simply put, if you loved the novel, you'll love the movie. And, like my case, it's better to read the book and THEN watch the film again and I guarantee you things will seem so much better.
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This is one of the worst movies I have ever wasted 2 hours on in my life...It ranks up there with Open Water..Blair Witch..really bad dont waste your time...
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A great movie for the terminally depressed with a need to destroy the very genre called super-heroes. It wallows in counter-culture stereo-types. I could be wrong .. maybe it's a drug rehab thing.
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
