Watchmen: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
| 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:  551 reviews
Sales Rank: 3,662
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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 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 5 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.
Preferable to the Ultimate Cut August 8, 2010
Tainted-Cell
This is a work-in-progress of the finished product Zack Snyder promised fans just before the theatrical release of "Watchmen". Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut contains everything - which is to say that it features the Black Freighter comic in animated form, and a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it transitional segments with the kid who's reading it. Honestly, I never really liked the Black Freighter interludes in the book, and in the Ultimate Cut, I found that it interrupts the flow terribly. So with that said, THIS director's cut is much better in comparison, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the film. The extended scenes (described in previous reviews) are wonderful elaborations, and of course, Hollis Mason's death scene is heart-wrenching. You don't want to miss this.
Apocalypse, or the end of music? July 28, 2010
Robert (Fresno, Ca.)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Im not sure what this movie is celebrating, superheroes, murder mysteries, evil violence, or just the brand new hope for the end of music as we know it, replacing it with the whining voices that have been shunned or set aside all these years, because it is here they make their grand debut out of our consciousness. At any rate, the soundtrack sucks with over political overtones of the lost 60s, and believe me, if the soundtrack sucks (I would exit a bar that played any of this), the movie does too, cause there is no movie classic with soundtrack that sucks. Even Thank God It's Friday disco movie had an award winning song in Last Dance. Now that was a real exit.
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