Watchmen - Tales of the Black Freighter Part 1 of 3

[crisdigi]

this was the part i enjoyed the most in the watchman graphic novel,too bad it didnt make the film

[dtothelu]

Imagine if this had been live action, would've been pretty sweet. Though there's already a gratuitous amount of violence in this and the movie. Snyder basically turned the movie into gore porn.

[ThunderLizardsRule]

What are the pirates chanting? It sounds like "warsaw".

[Etorias]

@ThunderLizardsRule

"More blood...More blood!!!!!"

[StokeCityFC44]

wish this had been worked into the movie

[Big12189]

It would be cool if this was an actual animated miniseries, with other stories. I can imagine Alan Moore writing for it.

[DrOmega]

@Big12189 hed make sure his name was attached to it so he could get the money and all but i dont think hed write it, because he doesnt believe in writing movies for hollywood or something, yeah alan moores weird like that

[eirikwegga]

@DrOmega He removed his name from Watchmen due to his bad experiences with Hollywood adaptions of his work, and will continue to do do. It's not weird at all considering every one of them have been botched to some degree. He does not have control over the finished product and consequently does not want his name attached. I don't even care about him or comic books at large, but I think his position is perfectly understandable for a man who takes pride in his work

[Vernedi]

@eirikwegga Exactly, a true master writer does not write to be greedy with money but to get a masterpiece done for the ages. That is the reason many franchises fail, specially horror, they create films for the sake of the money but they lack the soul of the writer and the dedication.

[systm1111]

brutal.

[ThomasJeromeNewton]

very similar to the pirates of the carribean black pearl concept

[hunter2007777777]

5.27 is the exact blood splatter of Rorschach

[pokemaniak30]

@hunter2007777777 no shit

[ThunderLizardsRule]

@hunter2007777777 I thought so too.

[MrOmniblast]

5:27...hehe...cute, Rorschach Blood-Blot Test...I see an angry bunny standing upright.

[ang5521]

@MrOmniblast Me too

[nwojunkie]

if he had gotten home, raft fully intact. they'd have hung him for murder or something else.

[mkarjal]

I would be nice to see this within the actual movie which is not so easy in Finland

[hersveinn]

@mkarjal

that's what torrents are for.

[ShadowDJ94]

I wonder if Alan Moore laughed when he heard about this.

[kps330]

Zack Snyder (director, "300") wanted this to be live-action (couldn't secure the funding at the time believe).

But can you imagine...

[TheLe953]

DISTURBING ......

[Omatusano]

Is this symmetrical to the story world?

[DoubleBassAlejo]

@Omatusano yeah, the connection is a lot clearer in the comic

[WilliamGarland]

@DoubleBassAlejo

They are releasing a longer cut of the film which intersperses the animated segments into the film, called the ultimate cut.

[DoubleBassAlejo]

@WilliamGarland I know, I own it. The parallel is still a lot clearer in the comics.

[WilliamGarland]

@DoubleBassAlejo

Fair enough.

[DoubleBassAlejo]

@WilliamGarland Would you agree? That's just my opinion. I always found that the transitions between the core story to the BF bits was always on key and always related. They did not try to hide it very much. It was a lot harder to see this in the movie, especially since they really cut down on the psychologist's contribution to the story.

[WilliamGarland]

@DoubleBassAlejo

I have actually never seen the ultimate edition, only heard it had been released, so I can't comment myself how it compares. That said I think black freighter one most of the more ilusive aspects of the comics, its whole meaning isn't clear until the second or third readthrough. That said black freighter is proabaly, in my opinion, one of the more logical things to cut from the film version. It adds a layer to the story but isn't critical to the plot.

[Jakeofalltrades1]

wierd but good



[iamAwesomo1994]

yes



[nwojunkie]

is that Gerard Butler narrating?

[Asteph4chivi]

@nwojunkie yep