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Watchmen (2-Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2009]

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Malin Åkerman (Actor), Jackie Earle Haley (Actor), Zack Snyder (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Malin Åkerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode
  • Directors: Zack Snyder
  • Format: Limited Edition, PAL
  • Subtitles: English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Audio Description: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Paramount
  • DVD Release Date: 27 July 2009
  • Run Time: 155 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (426 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001NGO880
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 35,094 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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An adaptation of Alan Moore's landmark comic book series, Watchmen is a story set in an alternative 1985 where a group of heroes, fo rced into retirement a decade before are called together once again to investigate the murder of one of their own. What they discove r an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power

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Everybody's favourite graphic novel comes to the screen (after years of rumours 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 Horton

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4.0 out of 5 starsDirectors cut review
By DeeJay on 8 July 2009
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
I know a number of people are trying to decide whether to order the Directors cut from the states, or to make do with the British theatrical cut. It's a little hard to do when you've no idea which is better. Well thankfully ive been able to see the Directors cut version and here's what I think.

Essentially, most of the extra running time is made up of 5 seconds here and 10 seconds there. The most prominent additions are, a battle scene with the original Nightowl when thugs go to his home. This is superbly merged with flashbacks of fights from his heyday. As a result of this the bar scene with Nightowl and Rorschach is extended. I did enjoy this violent scene but I can see why it was cut, it didnt really fit in with Nightowls character at all, neither did Rorschach's reaction come to think of it.

There are extended/extra scenes of Rorschach without his mask as he watches his fellow Watchmen. He's much more prominent at the funeral and we see him taking his "face" out of a dumpster after watching Daniel. I imagine these scenes were removed as it takes away any mystique of who Rorschach is under the mask.

Laury has a few extra/extended scenes, and almost a subplot where the FBI are always keeping tabs on here to ensure Dr Manhatten is kept happy.

Also, there are a few moments of extra gore, which is always nice. We see more footage of the newspaper stand where a young man is reading the Tales of the Black Freighter comic. Overall though, the rest is mainly an extra line here and there. A few are superb, others not so worthy. Rorschach is certainly the main beneficiary of these added scenes, and seeing as he was most peoples favourite, thats not a bad thing.

Is it worth importing though?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsI watches the Watchmen
By Guru Saj on 26 Dec. 2011
Format: DVD
I think my own personal yardstick on a movie is if I can watch it more than once. When I first watched "Watchmen" I hadn't read the comicbook, and on a first viewing I felt like I was running to catch up with a plot that was leaving me trailing in its wake - it's quite intimidating first time around, and a complete opposite to most lightweight superhero films. Now it's something I'll choose to watch often, and I feel I take something away from it with every watching.

It's not for Joe Popcorn who wants a lightweight superhero SFX-fest, it's more about exploring the social context of the superhuman, but in a dark and sometimes scary contrast to mainstream stuff like "Spiderman". It's rich, profound and complex with uncompromising violence, and heroes who often seem to stray into villainy. The plot links a series of beautifully-shot stylish slo-mo set-pieces tied together with a story that's often bleak, violent and bloody. It's not just peachy-keen young men putting on a suit and smacking up melodramatic villains with many a *biff!* and *ka-pow!*, these are real characters with scars, weaknesses and backstories that are often grim and shocking, and who walk the line between right and wrong very shakily.

The violence isn't the cartoonish biffing you get in mainstream superhero flicks either, it's often graphic and shocking, but no doubt it's intended to bridge the gap between the traditional comic portrayal and reality. There's sex and romance too, but it's keenly observed and much more "real" than Spiderman's upside-down preppy kissy-kissy. The superheroes themselves are more "real" too - sometimes terribly dark, sometimes effortlessly heroic, sometimes monstrous, sometimes impotent - there are some wonderful parodies of some one-dimensional classic comicbook characters.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRip-off Britain again!
By Daniel Mccabe on 2 Nov. 2009
Format: Blu-ray
So we've had the theatrical cut when America got the 'Director's cut'.

Now we get the 'Director's cut' just as America gets the 'Ultimate cut'

What the hell is wrong with film companies? I am sick to death of their attempts to rip us off with dearer prices and inferior extras. With this film they can't use the BBFC as an excuse - it's already an 18!

Five stars to the film, but a bunch of fives to the UK distributors for their ridiculous attempts to try to make people buy the film more than once.

I have deliberately resisted buying this yet. You should too.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA brilliant set... but a triple dip? Be ashamed, Warners.
By Mr. M. A. Reed TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 12 Jan. 2010
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THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE 5DVD US-ONLY ULTIMATE CUT : NOT THE 1-DISC, NOT THE 2DVD, NOT THE BLU RAY, NOT ANY OTHER VERSION. THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE 5DVD US-ONLY ULTIMATE CUT. (The UK 2 BR Directors Cut is very good, mind you).

Whether this purchase is worthwhile depends on what you have. Avid fans who bought everything as it was released will benefit only from the commentaries and the extra few seconds integrated back in. If you've bought everything else, the only `new' content is on the first disc ; all you get extra is a fraction of new footage and two commentaries for your big splashout. If you have no release of "Watchmen" at all, or held out, then this is the Big Enchilada, and get it now.

Britain, and the DVD format, get a bum deal. Britain isn't important enough to get the luxurious 5DVD set of "Watchmen : The Ultimate Cut". So in the end, I had to wait until the transatlantic postmen crawled through the snow to deliver this epic, but short-changing set.

THE ULTIMATE CUT

And what a Cut it is. The Ultimate Cut is exactly that : an enormous ambitious film that is, by any standard, a classic. It's not perfect in the slightest, but what it lacks in narrative it makes up in big brass balls. The pacing is often erratic, but then again - so was the original novel - and the small cinematic conceits of pacing and re-ordering of the narrative are for the benefit of the film.

What's different? Most of the "Black Freighter" is integrated back in, alongside some touching dialogue between the two Bernards that turns their previous cinematic incarnation - as two extras - into a symbolically important, wider universe.Read more ›
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