Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup Directed By: Zack Snyder Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Feature: 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 Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 21, 2009 Running Time: 162 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 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
Product Description: 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
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 Horton
Best since The Dark Knight ^ 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.
Incredible Movie! ^ DVD came in pristine condition, and the movie itself is genius. It's a great film.
An excellent story line that gives the book justice. ^ 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.
WoW ToTaL TrAsH!!! ^ 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...
Psycho-babble-masochism ^ 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.
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