Watchmen (Theatrical Cut) (Widescreen Single-Disc Edition) |  | Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  524 reviews
Sales Rank: 3293
Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 162 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000089592
UPC: 883929057771
EAN: 0883929057771
ASIN: B0029NY9YO
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: July 21, 2009
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| • | Someone s killing our super heroes. The year is 1985 and super heroeshave banded together to respond to the murder of one of their own. Theysoon uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.The super heroes fight to stop the impending doom only to findthemselves a target for annihilation. But, if our super heroes aregone, who will save us? Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: AC |
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WHEN AN EX-SUPERHERO IS MURDERED, A VIGILANTE NAMED RORSCHACH BE GINS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER WHICH BEGINS TO LEAD TO A MUCH MORE TERRIFYING CONCLUSION
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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 Horton
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 524
 Double Dipping! February 9, 2010
dirt55 (United States)
It's so frustraiting to purchase a product because you love it and want to support it to have the stuido/company release the "ultimate" version just months later. The move was very enjoyable, but now this product is basically worthless since it's lacking so many more things that are in the ultimate edition. It reminds me of what they did with Sin-City. Either you buy the newest edition and support the idea that they can keep doing this to the fans and getting even more out of us, or stand your ground and miss out on the extras!
 should have come with Cliffs notes January 31, 2010
Caraculiambro (La Mancha and environs)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
You know how all those people who had never read Tolkien complained that, plopped in the middle of the theater for Jackson's trilogy, it was too baffling? I felt the same way about this: the plot was far too convoluted to have been a movie. In fact, I sat through this with a fan who knew all about it. I had to pepper him with questions right up until the very end. Not a good sign.
Some other observations:
1. The soundtrack for this blows. No, let me try to be more articulate. It frequently was a jarring mish-mash between the music and what was happening onscreen. It was almost as if somebody had put their iPod on random and pushed "play".
2. What's with all the slow motion these days? Good grief. It's getting out of hand. At one point, the characters are crossing the street in slow motion!
3. They should have delimited Dr. Manhattan's powers more believably. By the time he's smooching that chick on Mars I had pretty much checked out of the movie.
4. What? No minorities among the Watchmen? Unacceptable! When is Hollywood going to learn: the only justification for casting white people is if you need a villain, an airhead, or a gender-bending misfit.
 A movie for the paranoid philosopher January 31, 2010
George Fisher
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
In these apocalyptic times of the credit crisis, a movie like this invokes the very darkest side of humanity and asks us to watch what evil we posses. This sounds like a good story, but is flawed by the lack of balance - there's no uplifting elements to counteract the gloom.
This is a movie that views the world as a faceless machine - the waiter, the guard, the taxi driver are all human beings living out a robotic life where a few "conscious" people, the super heroes, lament about how terrible everything is. There are attempts at humour, but nothing that's genuinely funny. As a result this film comes off as depressing. The film gets close to saying life is not worth living.
One thing that hurts the story, is how much abuse people's bodies take before they die: you see people being bashed around for minutes, when one blow would have killed them. This makes the deaths seem farcical and meaningless.
I know someone who likes the film because she had an abusive ex boyfriend who she is still in love with, years later - this film helps her justify these feelings. The relationships in the film are neither moments of love, nor Ayn Rand style powerplay. They are irrational, pointless - as if sex was unimportant, and I would say, viewed cynically. There's no joy of sex here.
This is a movie that touches upon interesting topics, but most of this intelligence is in the similes and metaphors used by the characters, and as a consequence this film drops you moments of thought provoking ideas but they don't have any context in the story as a whole.
Some of the cinematography is interesting with some nicely framed shots, but the editing is mediocre which really detracts from this effort. The acting is disjoint, there's little chemistry, and it feels they did not rehearse, so the characters are not clear in the actor's minds. The writing is average.
I have no problem with the nudity, but the blue character, Dr. Manhattan, (and this is a criticism of the graphic novel as well) the blueness is abstract. The fact that he's blue is not really relevant at all.
This is a paranoid, violent movie, that you will enjoy if you are into these things. If you like to think the world is going to end, you will enjoy this movie.
 Great Movie January 29, 2010
A. White
I had never heard of Watchmen before previews for this movie started up, but once I saw it I knew it would be in my collection. I have also recently read the graphic novel and the movie is as close as they come to a great portrayal of the characters. Most of the things changed were just fine by me, such as the ending, and all of the actors fit their respective roles perfectly, and that's not an exaggeration. For fans of the story, watch this movie!
Murky, Ambitious, Unsatisfying January 25, 2010
P. Schumacher (atlanta, GA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To give credit where due: this movie goes beyond the simplistic formulas of the usual superhero movies, and attempts to deal with SOCIAL issues, rather than just individual ones. For example, clearly avoiding nuclear holocaust is preferable to merely cleaning up streetgangs who happened to hurt a friend.
And it tries to get beyond the rigid dualism of GOOD vs. EVIL, by intimating that most of the times things are not so clear. For example, Veidt is a liar and a murderer, but does it in a greater cause--which really is a greater cause, and not merely self-serving.
Also, it presents a lot of characters, and they go through changes--all of which adds interest. Oddly, Rorschach is the most interesting, and the best actor.
However, the take on social issues, while laudable in principle, is lame in practice. The movie is still hobbled by its "the political is always personal" outlook. For example, when Veidt and Rorschach finally face off, no resolution is possible except for one of them to blow the other up.
As in all superhero movies, the special effects are more important than the people. You don't really know if Billy Crudup is affectless because the character demands it, or if he just can't act.
All in all, this picture is unsettling and not very instructive or fun.
I'm glad I saw it. And I will never watch it again.
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