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  • Pendalf the grey.

  • never seen the movie but the videogame on xbla is awesome

  • the movie is great you just must have enough intelligence to see the message

  • it's very hard to please fanboys of any genre. i very much feel that they could not have done a better job at recreating graphic novel to movie than what they did achieve with this. it's original, it's dark. it's not the same typical superhero movie plot. in my opinion it's definetly up there with The Road to Perdition and The Dark Knight when to comes to graphic novel movies.

  • 6:56

    Comedian: God, help us all!

    Rorschach: *whispers* No!

  • Who here does film? There are somethings that you cant replicate in film or it wouldn't be wise to, and besides this was a great movie, both Script and Visual, it made a lot of sense ah mean, transformers is Great but it only has visuals, story line is forever lacking its too detached.. all over the place.. this actually had substance and great visuals.. Those badass made this Story Look Good on the big Screen

  • I knew God was a VFX director !

  • but spider man 2 was awful

  • The audacity of these filmmakers to think they have the right to change the ending of this book! You may make great commercials, you may make great visuals, but unless you have a book (let alone a comic book) on Time magazine's most important works of literature of the past century, you don't get to change shit! Fuck off you assholes! "It's all there" except the ending... You are way out of your intellectual league here fukerz. You have fucked up The Watchmen for millions of people world wide.

  • @xrock4 nothing important is changed in the ending. so what if the events are slightly different? the story is the same. i for one am very thankful that they made a movie so that more people can discover this wonderful story. quit whining srsly

  • @hanlof1 r u kidding me???? He changed the ending significantly. Again, unless you wrote a book on times list of MOST important novels of the century, you don't to change shit. This is work way above the intellect level of the average person to do. We love Watchmen because of the book. We don't talk about how it could have been better. We talk about how it is perfect. Don't change shit! Put the book on the screen.

  • the xeni jordin girl who compares resembles briggetenielson

  • People think anything sucks if there is more than 5 minutes of dialogue. Here in America, a movie like expendables does better than a movie like watchmen.

  • I would like to say that "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" was a great song to use for the film. Very mystical song that people from every genre can like.

  • this movie is greatly underrated.

  • It takes something special to ask all the right questions. As a hardcore Alan Moore fan, I applaud both your interview and the excellent, awesome job these guys did in taking Watchmen to the big screen.

    Kudos, y'all!

  • 0:28 she said "the watchman"

    wtf

    get name right!

  • this is my favorite movie this year and top 3 ever. don't see why everyone is hating. manhantan is portrayed great, and roarshach,

  • lol nerds raging.

    graphic novel is awesome. also enjoyed movie and thought ending was probably better.. oh shock horror.

  • cg animators still haven't cracked how to make a realistic mouth. when dr manhattan shouts "leave me alone" his mouth looks like a video game character.

    i really don't get why he was "hard to do" - couldn't they just shave the guy and paint him blue? his "aura" and shiney eyes could have been done in post production.

    a mountain was definitely made out of a molehill with that one i reckon.

  • Seriously. I thought it was lame that he had to be CGI.

  • I don't think Billy's that ripped.

  • @matafuko i think dr manhattan looked great in the movie

  • at the risk of sounding patronising - I'd love to agree with you. but to me he looks like a video game character.

    the new star trek movie had traditional prosthetics and women painted green and they looked way better.

  • hey now...you just made phillip glass cry...Personally I thought that the phillip glass (koyannisquatsi, right???) worked great. About freakin time sombody blew the dust off that piece and gave it a new life.

  • shei sound shity and look .... shie is pissing me off

  • My god shes annoying

  • The movie was rated R.

    What did you expect?

  • whats this

  • The movie was okay. I was a bit shocked to see one the characters to be dam near a rapist & a dead beat baby daddy and to see a blue superhero dick and a naked super woman. Dam lol my kid was distraught over that movie for small while. I should have left him home. I had NO idea all THAT would happen. He covered his eyes A LOT. A lot happen that I didn't EVEN expect in this movie. Those super hero's needed A LOT of therapy lol

  • you dumbshit the movie was rated R

    did you expect everyone to hold hands and fight evil

    and your kid is a pussy

  • boring

  • the people saying this is a bad movie, are so wrong, probably they were expecting another spider-man 3. For them a boring movie is when the characters talk for more than 2 minutes. Jeeezz maybe they don't even read books with serious themes. The world is not a colorfull rainbow. I'm going to the movies to watch stories of any genre, not just happy or naive stories. people who hate this film are the usual g-force audience or transformers 2 audience.

  • yo man i'm 15 and i have never heard of or read the novel. But I loved this movie and it was amazing. It makes me want to go read the novel now. I'm a very big fan of the marvel movies but this movie was better in the sense of character development and many other things.

  • when i saw the trailer like 6 months before the film I read the novel and it is a life changing experience compared to the film.

  • So if you were a pedophiliac killer with a small body you wouldn't think disposing of a girl by dogs would be useful? and you need to get a grip, this is the world that saw six million jews gassed and burnt and America napalming innocent civilians, but asides all that the world isn't violent and this film paints the wrong picture of human, incase you can't tell - sarcasm.

  • humans

  • i agree i love this movie but the critics weren't all that kind on it either

  • @winki70 That's probably true for the vast majority of film goers. However, there are also those people like me who see this film as what it is: Not much. It tries so hard to build up a storyline for each character, too hard even, fumbling around trying to get a message across, and that's the biggest flaw of the movie itself. Because it fails to do exactly that. It takes the different "heroes", puts them into miniature stories and tries to explain how their lives are shit. Great concept! /irony

  • woow...the guy at the beginning. his hair.. just like the nuts of my grandpa... ugly and hairy...

    damn... i gonna have a hard time sleeping tonight...

  • NO!!

  • haha yeah!

  • the visual looks pretty cool, apart from the part that manhattan disassamble the tank, the tank looks too CG ish

  • "God help us all."

    "No."

    LOL

  • awesome movie!

    id give watchmen an 8/10 and considering a knew little about the comic i thought it would bewlider me but its an awesome movive, just abit too long

  • yeah but all kinds of nakedness from john i give it a 9/10 cuz of that

  • long movies are great especially nowadays cause most movies are like 90 minutes which is kinda short

  • i have yet to see a movie be based on the comic book itself (ie: TMNT splinter was a mutated rat and the cartoon made it where he was man turned into a rat, complete BS). This looks so awesome that i have to see it. I love all the super hero movies that have come out they're amazing!

  • oh yeah, the new Xmen movie (i know they have nothing to do with these guys) is going to have Gambit and Jubilee (EPIC WIN) and they were one of the original characters! They should have had them in sooner! lol

  • its awesome

  • i know Xmen was pretty good. They didn't have jubilee in it tho and gambit didn't have his accent either. There were so many things that the movie had that were just put in there and not really thought about. I hope watchmen is so much better I haven't had the chance to watch it yet. And I hope the next Xmen is a bit more researched from the comics and possibly updated a LITTLE bit. :P

  • let me just tell you this watchmen missed a couple things "coughgiantsquidcough"

    but idk about wolverine i saw that too and i didnt have any complaints because im not so intersted in wolverine but watchmens effects are just breathtaking

    i give a 8/10 as a movie but 7/10 as an adaptation for watchmen

  • LOOOOOOOOOOL yeah i understand what you mean. I never heard of watchmen (lol) and ty for letting me know that too. I probably wouldn't have known that, that's why I was gonna tell everyone about the new Xmen movie. and idk y they have woverine as the "main character" in the new movie because Xmen was made by Professor Xavier (prof X) and a diff xmen... weird :S guess ppl rly like wolverine.

  • people these days just cant apreciate a good comic wolverine is all flash the claws the attitude its badass and thats what people want to see right?anyway why did the call it X-MEN wolverine origins why they put the x-men in it they shoulda just called it Wolverine Origins

  • Because they want to create multiple films each about the origins of some x-men. Giving it a consistent name will make it sort of a mini-series, whatever, probably interesting from a commercial point of view.

    Wolverine is just the first. Magneto will follow in a year or so. I hope they'll do Jean Grey too.

  • oh ok thats fair

  • ? the movie has nothing to do with marvel. they used to be the same company until they wanted to make differnet universes. so you cant compare to different universes.

  • i can imagine what the special effects guy must've been like having to make a CG dick XD.

    loved the book, haven't seen the movie

  • Dark Knight rules!!!

  • A masterpiece!!!!!!

  • "God Help Us All"

  • effin love that movie!

  • Ugh, the cgi people are always whining.

    If they think a 10 second scene has too much cgi work and it may be cut out, they should stfu and be happy they get paid to do something as frivolous computer animation during a recession.

  • This guy seems like an absolute wizard.

  • and he got magic powers

  • crap

  • Does anyone know when the DVD's coming out?!?!?

    I wants it! @_@ an I hear they made the movie longer on DVD.

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  • Amazing, very interesting how they made it.

  • pignas!

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  • her brother has longer hair than her

  • wow baxmonster thats not gay or anything

  • For all the tech-talk and idle chatter about CG and it's complexities, I'd say they failed miserably on Dr Manhattan. His facial movements looked like crap. Awkward and "keyframe:y" I should know because I in animation school. It looked like beginners work. As an example, they did a phenominal job on Gollum's facial movements - and that was almost a decade ago. They should've hired the guys at Weta Digital.

  • I'd have to disagree. Dr Manhattan is suppose to be devoid of alot of emotion. I think they did a brilliant job.

  • That's really not what I'm talking about. His facial movements look fake and "computer:y" Whether you're emotional or stoic, there are 100s of subtle muscle movements in your face what you talk. It's the dynamics of facial movement they failed at. Yes his devoid of emotion, but that doesn't mean he has to look like something out of a videogame.

    But I guess they if intentionally went for the fake CG look, they succeeded. Just not sure if it was the right way to go about it.

  • Did you really think his facial expressions looked fake? I personally left the cinema believing that they built a CG body around a real human face and they just took out his pupils etc in editing... Seeing this behind the scenes thing actually surprised me, as I was sure his face was completely real.

  • thebbeenn:

    If that is the problem with his expression (which I thought were fine) It's because all CG human characters are generally new. Remember Beowulf?

  • I loved this movie too, but I can't praise everything about it. Credit where credit is due. Check out his awkwardly stretched mouth in the scene where he freaks out.

    And LOL, I remember beowulf. At least Snyder had the balls to show CG dick where they copped out in Beowulf. With all the meadhorns and candleholders that passed over Beo's crotch, his dick ended up being the only thing on your mind, whereas Dr Manhattan's dick was quickly forgotten since it occurred so naturally in the scenes.

  • Great Questions!! Very Nice Interview.

  • good interview

  • "The director and special effects supervisor of THE WATCHMAN." Greeeat. She doesn't even know what it's called...

  • yeah, i caught that too

  • true but she is pretty cute.

  • this movie reminds of mystery men. i think ben stiller could whip all theses guys asses.

  • nothing like mystery men...at all

  • Troll Detected.

  • troll alert

  • What's the first song playing? It's playing when Rorschach first starts to talk.

    It stops playing at 1:30

  • pruit igoe & prophecies by the philip glass assembly

  • Thanks!

  • that cg stuff is pretty cool

  • zsoltedito:

    i can understand why you didnt understand anything..... probably because you fail to grasp the finer points of the human language....." i didn't understood anything ... " LOLZ U FAIL

  • She sounds like Miley Cyrus

  • I saw the movie today, I loved it, cant wait to buy it on Blu Ray dvd. Best sex scene ever made!!

  • Thats a big MIC lol BOING!

  • At least doctor .Manhattan did not walk a round with an erection

  • wish he did it seems girls gone wild got to be in friday 13 lol j/k but i think its about time male nudity is in a movie and people hating and guess what they are all guys straight guys dont hate nobody says anything when girls run naked in the street in my bloody valentine come on it was not even real it was a CG BODY a good 1 at that lol

  • rolf

  • That lady has a huge fucking head.

  • she said watchmAn

  • lol in the movie Mr.Manhattans Dong is like out half the time lol

  • i know lol so small

  • You as well.

  • Good thing based on your profile you are under 13. Because otherwise that comment would make you look like an idiot.

  • lol

  • You're immature. Please stfu.

  • I lol'd at the fact that you actually capitalized "Dong"

  • LMAO!

    what the... ?! O.o

  • he keeps saying how things looked in 1987, but the movie is set in 1985

  • pull that movie was horrible

  • its 2 hours and 40 mins

  • movie's great, best 2 hours of my life. lol

  • 2 hours lol it is 3 hours dude

    it was 3 hours and 5 mins minus 15 mins of preview

  • Zack Snyder is a genious.

  • what kind of microphone is she using? is it using a shotgun or a bi-directional polar pattern?

  • Can't wait to see the movie. I hear good things about it. I also hear, it has everything in the movie.

  • wow the interviewer is really good. Very knowledgeable and smart

  • K this is a pet peeve of mine. I saw a guy say this on another comment blog somewhere.

    saying "FANBOYS" of watchmen is like saying "citizen kane' fanboys or 'the dubliners fanboys' or 'to kill a mockingbird' fanboys. It's just stupid.

  • wonder if they keep the scene where the comedian shoots the "vietnemese?" woman who has his baby. I always thought that moment was so well written especially with Manhattans envolvement in the scene.

  • I seen the movie,yes they will keep it....it was INTENSE :)

  • duude.... it was INTENSE... very very emotionally disturbing....

  • yeah, they keep it.  It was one of the more intense scenes...especially for someone like me who hadn't read the graphic novel.

  • ive just seen the movie and its kept in :)

  • ugh im so mad i wish i could see it i read the novel 2 =[ i deff have 2 like sneek in =P

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  • Its R rated beacuse of much swearing and sex :S But yeah you should read the graphic novel its awesome !

  • Very true.

  • To those who are all surprised this is R rated (mostly young kids and people that haven't read the comic) you should read the graphic novel. It is amazing and you would then realize that to do this movie it HAS to be rated R. Also keep in mind this isn't an action flick, this will make you think.

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  • oh crap this is r rated movie! i thought it was pg 13 ahh fuck now i need a way to sneak in,,, fuck this sucks

  • I have never let myself see an R-Rated movie,but this one might convince me.

  • lol

    woah r -rated no wayy!

  • well,im 11,and I decided that they were all bad for me,but now I realized that just going to school is like an R-Rated movie.

  • There's topless women getting each other off at your school?

  • yes

  • That's a retarted assumption to come to...

    Why would you censor yourself from the only rating with movies that are actually GOOD?

  • I am realizing that now

  • u never seen robocop? :)) dont worry this movie is cool.

  • Somebody should mention there are spoilers in this video before showing it...

  • i just watched "the justin and eric show episode 1" it was so funny

  • my editing is better than that...

  • amen, man

    my camerawork is better than that

  • I'm super stoked for this movie. Alan Moore's novel was awesome so I hope this movie's not going to be a let down.

  • this movie looks sweet, i might go check this out

  • Cool!!

  • I NEED to see that movie .

  • I hope this movie finally, gets the comic book to live action movie right for a change. Every comic book turned movie has done a poor job of turning someones else's hard work into "crap". Lots of people think the last Batman movie finally got it right. WRONG! Batman is and always will be my favorite comic book character. Why? Reason is, he's one of few characters that can exist within the realm of possibilty. Read the Damn!