What is up with the Watchmen DVD? As early as August last year, we were promised super-dooper, hyper-deluxe extra-classy DVD and Bluray release that had fans’ slobbering. A longer cut? You got it. A cut branching the Tale of the Black Freighter into the narrative? You got that too. Hell, there was even talk of a theatrical re-release of the film come August 2009.
However, since the movie opened to… divided critical and geek-based reception, and since it faded (rather than burnt) out of the Box Office, there has been next nothing. DVD sites are listing the disk as available for purchase, but no date is listed. The more experienced DVD/blu ray tea-leaf readers speculate that 28th July looks fortuitous for an American release, along with a raft of other geek-friendly titles.
Let the jokes about multiple blu(ray) packages commence...
I just find it curious that a date had yet to be set – I’m certain there are a whole host of geeks out there salivating at the prospect of the release. I plan on waiting for the extended cuts at the end of the year – I’d hope for a deluxe Blade Runner style release with a slew of disks and branching options available so I can watch the Watchmen anyway I want. I’m still not entirely sure what I make of the film, but I’d like to see it again a couple of times before I finally make up my mind – it’s certainly a different and daring film for a mainstream Hollywood production. Whether it was necessary is another discussion, but not one I’m going to have right now…
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Watchmen is an adaptation of Alan Moore’s (Swamp Thing, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta) landmark graphic novel, directed by Zach Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) and starring Billy Crudup (The Good Sheppard, Public Enemies), Patrick Wilson (Angels in America, Lakeview Terrace), Stephen McHattie (300, A History of Violence), Carla Gugino (Sin City, Spy Kids) and Patrick Earle Haley (Little Children, Bad News Bears). It was release worldwide on the 6th March 2009, which looks much cooler in American format: 03.06.09.
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Will we ever see an Alan Moore Watchmen review? Given how much you analyze stuff, I’m probably gonna need to grab a meal before I start reading. Also this is around the 5th request I’ve made in comments on this blog. I wonder if you have any other big fans.
I was toying with an Alan Moore Watchmen review, but it’s all a matter of time, alas. There is never enough of the damn thing.