Watchmen: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
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| Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  553 reviews
Sales Rank: 3670
Format: Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 186 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 883929057795
UPC: 883929057795
EAN: 0883929057795
ASIN: B001QTXM5Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: July 21, 2009
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| • | Watchmen: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc | | • | Special Edition) [DVD] (2009); Alan Moore |
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Product Description
As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters turn up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the ide
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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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 meh...artsy garbage September 7, 2010
Roman T. Caldwell (Zanesville,OH USA)
Superhero movies should be fun, and while part of me says this is probably the greatest movie ever made, the other part is numb from boredom. Rorshach(or however its spelled), is the only reason to watch. He saves the movie and makes it worth watching once. Only once...
 Watchmen stuck with me for several days after watching it... September 4, 2010
K. Duncan (Ohio, USA)
I was excited when Watchmen - 2 disc Director's Cut/Special Edition finally arrived, I'd never seen it before, never read any of the comics, didn't know what to expect but knew instinctively that I would like it. I wasn't wrong. My wife was concerned with the length but I didn't care. It took me a little bit to figure out what was going on (I'd read reviews and story plotlines before watching it so we wouldn't be completely in the dark, but still...), but once I got into the story, I didn't want to let go. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, I'd like to watch it again but it'll be awhile before my wife will want to see it again and I don't like watching movies by myself. This movie stuck with me, made an impression on me for several days after we'd watched it, not too many movies do that to/for me. It definitely appealed to both the adult and the little kid in me. You really need to pay attention to what's going on but the payoff is great. I'm glad I bought this movie, and this version of this movie, I was most definitely NOT disappointed. -kd5-
Is Don. Is Good. August 21, 2010
elsuave
For less than half the cost of purchasing in store (not to mention having to find a copy somewhere since it's been deleted) i had this delivered to me in Sydney, Aus. Then there's the superior cover art. No contest.
Fantastic August 11, 2010
Sylvain Montet
One of the Best Superheroe movie...
Too bad i had to buy it from Amazon US
This version isnt available in France
 can't believe I wasted my money seeing this movie August 9, 2010
G. Ferguson (NC USA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Didn't buy wouldn't buy, dark grim movie of super heros who are not really heros or even good. The one good guy was made to look bad the entire time and killed in the end by a fellow hero/ freak. Didn't buy it, want a refund from going to see it when it came out.
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