Watchmen

Year:	2009
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Super Heroes, Science Fiction
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	10 Have Seen


Director	Zack Snyder
Selected Cast	Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach
	Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl
	Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre
	Malin Akerman as Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II

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Watchmen - Paramount - UK (2009)

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Watchmen - Warner Home Video - USA (2009)

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Watchmen - Warner Home Video - USA (2009)

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Watchmen - Paramount - Sweden (2009)

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Watchmen - Paramount - Australia (2009)

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Watchmen - Paramount - Netherlands (2009)

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Watchmen: Os Guardiões - ZON Lusomundo - Portugal (2009)

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Magic Marmalade 11th Feb 2017		Rated 6/10 A good, faithful (mostly) shot-for-cell live action version of Watchmen... But... It's missing all the important extra bits (in the right places) which are the substance of Watchmen... for the comics / graphic novel is like a jigsaw of elements, which together describe the picture... the straight narrative storyline being only one of those. In the graphic novel each of the twelve original instalments incorporates the story, a flashback story, articles, psychological profile documents, a comic -within comic (The Black Freighter) and assorted other bits and pieces, which create the mosaic of what this is really all about. ...So like a jigsaw, you take all these pieces, and in thinking them over lay them out before you, and see what kind of picture they make... but also, in so doing, you see the shape of the pieces the provided material makes in describing deliberately missing elements, conclusions you can draw the gaps in the provided material which will strongly suggest deeper intentions and meanings in Watchmen. ...So seeing this after having read the graphic novel felt oddly one dimensional, albeit, as good a filmed version it would have been possible to make... and this detracted slightly, and somehow, lost the tone of the novel by virtue of the live action .... (the horrific violence just comes across as cool or something of that sort here, but is very pointedly using the medium of comic book cells in the book to say something about that violence... and American culture) In fact, the violence comes across as simply fetish-ist-ic and creepy, rather than cynical and repugnant, as was, I think the intent (could be why Alan Moore wanted nothing to do with the film). So it's OK by any modern superhero movie standard, but you have to read the graphic novel get it, and get just how brilliant it is at what it intends to do. ... So that said... if you are going to watch this, watch it first BEFORE reading the novel, otherwise you'll be disappointed with the film. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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