Watchmen

By Marc Eastman There’s a joke in Watchmen which Rorschach enters into his journal.  It’s an idea that’s been around forever, but it’s summed up well in the quick delivery of a none-too-funny joke.  Basically – A man goes to a doctor and complains that he’s depressed.  The doctor says the cure is quite simple...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) The Jody Hill Interview Part 2: Observe & Report, the “Sex Scene Controversy,” Mall Hate, Parents, The Foot Fist Way, and a “Southern Godfather” /Filmcast Ep. 57 - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (GUEST: Quint from Aint It Cool News)Watchmen’s Maximum Movie Mode Could Be The Bes...

By jake You Might Also Be Interested In:A Prequel/Sequel To 300!Has Watchmen Killed ‘Comic Book Movies?’Zack Snyder On Adapting The Dark Knight ReturnsWarner Bros. Wants A Lot More Batman MoviesWatchmen Wows At Wonder ConFirst Review of Watchmen Is In! The perfect sequel contains new and old...

By Sarah Jaffe Yes, that’s Gambit. Shut up, I’m a Gambit fangirl.) My moviegoing companion, not a comics person but yet the friend who’s accompanied me to every comic movie I’ve seen in the last year, enjoyed Wolverine more than she did Watchmen. I don’t know if I’d go that far–or perhaps, if the metric is “en...

By David Bentley And, despite being acclaimed, the graphic novel is not widely known in the mainstream, reducing the film's appeal even further. This isn't Batman, or Spider-Man, it's a much deeper, darker story that deconstructs the genre and uses realistic historical settings to show what might happ...

By Erik Davis If you're looking to kill a couple hours this weekend, might I suggest listening to the latest podcast over at Slashfilm. This week writer/director/actor (and geek expert) Kevin Smith came on as a guest to review Watchmen with podcast regulars David Chen, Peter Sciretta, Devindra Harda...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Related Stories Box Office Tracking: Witch Mountain Could “Rock” Watchmen for Surprising Weekend WinVOTD: Watchmen Tour with Malin AkermanKevin Smith and the /Filmcast Review Watchmen (/Filmcast: Ep. 41)Patton Oswalt Says People Complaining About The Watchmen Adaptation Should...

By Christopher Campbell What is worse about the now-infamous Watchmen sex scene (watch it here), the distracting soundtrack or the explosive metaphor at the climax? Even if intended to be funny, and regardless of its (more-subtle) appearance in the graphic novel, the fire blast as stand-in for ejaculation is...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Watchmen = Epic fail! If you haven’t seen The Watchmen yet, I’d urge you to read the graphic novel first. Well, actually, I’d urge you to JUST read the Graphic Novel. I was bored while watching Watchmen experiencing the post-Watchmen glow.

By mike@mikeromo.com Watchmen: Justice is Coming is an interesting attempt to do something different, but in the end, the actual implementation just does not work.  You can't waste people's time when they are actively wasting time playing a game, you know? The loading screen between each and every significa...

By Michael C. Lorah The Library is a great place for readers to discover comics, and it’s a great place for comics readers to check out things that they want to try without spending their hard-earned cash.  I’m looking at comics that I find in the New York Public Library system.

By Henry Chamberlain Fortunately, the reality is that there is a graphic novel. It came first and it was written by Alan Moore. The reason that he will not support the movie, despite what Lane would try to imply, is that he does not support Hollywood. Getting past preconceptions, when I look at Watchmen, I see a movi...

As expected, WATCHMEN easily stood atop the weekend box office with $55.7 million: Warner Bros.’ edgy superhero pic “Watchmen” grossed an estimated $55.7 million from 3,611 theaters in its domestic B.O. debut, coming in lower than expected but still scoring the best opening of the year and o...

By Gene Rorschach is my all-time favorite character from the story, and he could not have been cast better, same with the Comedian. Malin Ackerman who played the Silk Specter II fell short of good, but I have always thought that character was the weakest in the entire story.

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) All that being said, I love this movie. Snyder and screenwriters David Hayter and Alex Tse have managed to approximate the dense plotting of Moore’s original graphic novel. When characters come to blows, the fight sequences are well-choreographed and the blood and guts on the screen don’...

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) Oh, and my favorite exchange from the book -- and one of the book's pithiest, most significant bits of dialogue -- has been completely recontextualized and given to two completely different characters, in a way that robs the exchange of its full power, I think. I'm not sure if this is better...

By Brad Curran Patrick Wilson was also great as Nite Owl (even if he gets saddled with some heavy melodrama at times; to be fair, the original may go too far the other way). I was also impressed with what Jeffrey Dean Morgan did with the Comedian. He was able to make the necessary impression in a short period of...

Friday, March 6, 2009 I watched the Watchmen and couldn't believe my eyes... I have a confession, I've already seen an advanced screening of Watchmen on Tuesday, so today is the second time I've watched the movie. With that in mind I think I have a better perspective after a second viewing and I h...

By David Pepose Consensus: Gritty and visually striking, Watchmen is a faithful adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, but its complex narrative structure may make it difficult for it to appeal to viewers not already familiar with the source material.

By Christopher Campbell “If you take your kids to see ‘Watchmen,’ you’re a moron,” writes conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel, on her own site. “It’s rated ‘R’–which should kinda sorta be a hint–but it really deserves an ‘NC-17″…Oh, and don’t forget another superhero’s swinging computer-generated pe...

By Richard So how is this biggest-movie-ever Watchmen superhero flick? Well, not so good if many critics are to be believed. Should have been kept in holy reverence as a comic book (or graphic novel or whatever). Owen Gleiberman at Entertainment Weekly, in a B- review, found the material a bit dated:

By Marc Eastman Enter Rorschach.  Another member of our masked crew, Rorschach did not accept his pink slip, and has been dealing out justice wherever possible.  He also does not accept the idea that The Comedian’s death was anything simple, and he suspects a plot to do away with the Watchmen.  He visits Ni...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Related Stories Watchmen Movie Trailer Now Online - What Do You Think?!Alan Moore is NOT Watching the WatchmanAlan Moore Still Isn’t Watching The WatchmenNew Watchmen Photos RevealedCarla Gugino Talks Watchmen’s Opening Credits, Silk Spectre’s Aging Zack Snyder Reveals Watchmen...

By Charlie Jane Anders We were lucky enough to be part of press interviews with director Zack Snyder, original artist Dave Gibbons and the movie's cast. Zack talked about why comic-book movies are finally ready for a dark deconstruction, Dave talked about the "grim 'n' gritty" craze in comics, and Jeffrey Dean...

By Scott Thill Watchmen's origin story starts with characters from Charlton Comics, which DC Comics acquired in 1985. Moore and Gibbons' brilliant revisions of Charlton's stable of heroes -- characters like The Question, created by the legendary Steve Ditko -- became immortal copies of their origi...

Malin Akerman in "Watchmen" Photo: Warner Bros. Related Videos Spoiler Alert: 'Watchmen' Related Photos Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, My Chemical Romance, More At "Watchmen" Premiere Zack Snyder And "Watchmen" Cast At MTV "Spoilers" Taping "Watchmen"

By Charlie Jane Anders The book is a nice blend between a making-of book and a primer on the film for newbies. Writer Peter Aperlo divides the book into seven easy chapters. Three chapters deal with pre-production, production and post-production. Another chapter explains the world of Watchmen, and there's a sep...

By Hugh Hart Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen MovieWatchmen's World Draws From Strangelove, Taxi DriverIs Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Really 'Visionary'?Waiting for Watchmen at WonderConArchaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons Left to right: The...

By Sarah Jaffe Much praised for its “realistic” take on superheroes, Watchmen made the point that superheroes, realistic or otherwise, were beside the point. Its costumed do-gooders are retired, impotent, or insane, and they generally do more harm than good.

By Hugh Hart Watchmen Synopsis: Set in an alternate-history version of 1985, the United States and the Soviet Union approach nuclear annihilation as superheroes fight amongst themselves and do their bit to save humanity. They include psychologically marred  Rorschach (played by a convincing Ja...

By Scott Thill Is Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Really 'Visionary'?Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League and Making MagicArchaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave GibbonsReview: Alan Moore's Seminal Swamp Thing ResurfacesAlan Moore Will Be 'Spitting Venom All...

By Charlie Jane Anders As almost anyone reading this knows, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons published Watchmen back in 1985, and it revolutionized superhero comics forever. I re-read a chunk of my copy the other night, and had to force myself to stop reading and get to sleep. Even 24 years later, the graphic novel sizz...

By Charlie Jane Anders On many levels, Watchmen is a masterpiece. Visually striking from its first to last frame, Snyder's adaptation, in my opinion, even surpasses the source material. (Although the review goes on to point out a lot of problems in the film, but then winds up saying it's basically great.)

By J. Caleb Mozzocco “The DVD equivalent of an audiobook”: That’s Film Threat’s assessment of Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic DVD (It’s actually a fairly positive review). “Motion Comic” still sounds strange to me, like someone referring to a movie as a “moving picture.”

By J. Caleb Mozzocco Now that the film adaptation is just around the corner, the floodgates of Watchmen merch have been opened wide, and there’s enough of it that comic shop employees can be sloshing around in it if they wanted to be. But even that is Watchmen movie stuff, not Watchmen comic stuff.

I should preface this review by stating that I am a great admirer of the original source material for this film. Watchmen the comic book helped to redefine the genre, grounding it's characters in a dark dystopian world and the heroes are a product of that world. Writer Alan Moore had dismisse...

By STV A]uds unfamiliar with Moore's brilliantly bleak, psychologically subversive fiction may get lost amid all the sinewy exposition and multiple flashbacks. After a victorious opening weekend, the pic's B.O. future looks promising but less certain.

By Brian Cronin For all the criticism traditionally directed at Snyder’s handling of actors, a few of them acquit themselves quite well here. Haley’s Rorschach is every bit as good as you might expect, while Billy (Dr Manhattan) Crudup and Patrick (Nite Owl II) Wilson are as close to their comic book equi...

By David Pepose Ain’t It Cool News has reported… well, non-reported… some interesting news on the Watchmen film. Apparently there’s an embargo on the reviews. For those not in the know, that means they’ve made a deal with Warner Bros., Zack Snyder, or someone else that they will not release the review until...

By Rick Marshall Be sure to check out a very special, “Watchmen”-themed episode of MTV’s “Spoilers” this Saturday at 8 PM EST for exclusive, never-before-seen clip from “Watchmen,” as well as a Q&A with “Watchmen” director Zack Snyder and your first look at more exclusive footage and behind-the-s...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Wiswart on ePinions: “For those looking for a literal translation to film of the graphic novel, Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” is not it, but it comes as close as a movie can for such a densely written comic book story. For those who know nothing of “Watchmen,” you’re in for a cinematic treat unlik...

By Michael Moran Now Watchmen has no campy legacy to dispel. The characters, although derived from some second-string characters DC comics picked up in the Eighties, are Alan Moore originals. The only baggage they have is what Moore gave them. And boy, do they have baggage.

By Todd Brown So it turns out all that legal nail-biting was just posturing on the part of Warner Bros., which is finally starting to talk settlement in this whole brouhaha. A timely release is once again looking possible, and the fan-legion is pleased.34Iron Man 2

By Robert Greenberger Both were brimming with enthusiasm for The Watchmen, the project they were just getting started on and I had heard about in the hallways. We spent the afternoon sipping tea at the Tower Hotel as Dave pulled out pages of drawings and sketches while Alan talked through the themes of the series....

By David Bentley The movie, an adaptation of an acclaimed graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, is shaping up to be another smash hit following Warner's mammoth success with The Dark Knight. But what does this latest ruling mean? Will we ever get to see the Watchmen movie?

By Alex Billington This is as good of time as any to reiterate that Fox is one of the worst studios in Hollywood, with my recent article on Taken being just one example of their stubbornness. I've said it before and I'll say it again, regardless of who literally does own the rights, this movie would never have got...

By beeslo Hey, so remember that review of Watchmen I did…like yesterday? Remember how I said, it would be cool if Alan Moore had made some more back story concerning the partnership of Rorschach and Nite Owl? But also remember how I said that would be, in fact, more of a bad idea?

By Graeme McMillan It's already calling itself the movie adaptation of "the most celebrated graphic novel of all time," but if a certain group of masochistic fans have their way, "visionary director" Zack Snyder's version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic may also be the longest comic strip movie ever...

NEWS Watchmen Trailer Rocks Linkage Watchmen Trailer, Shot by Shot Comparison Linkage San Diego Comic Con this week Linkage Contest is giving away the Frank Miller inspired Limited Edition Dark Knight 2 Statue. You can win it and all it takes is a picture. Linkage

By Alex Billington What I love about this interview is that it just went perfect. By the end, Chiwetel and I were just chatting about the state of graphic novels and adaptations in Hollywood, including Watchmen. He gives the greatest explanation behind the ideas in Watchmen that I've ever heard and also brill...