Watchmen: Victory in Vietnam

Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Set in an alternate-history 1985, tensions heighten between the United States and the Soviet Union as a group of former vigilantes investigates an apparent conspiracy against them and uncovers something even more grandiose and sinister.Following publication of the Watchmen comic, a live-action film adaptation was mired in development hell. Producer Lawrence Gordon began developing the project at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. (parent company of Watchmen publisher DC Comics) with producer Joel Silver and director Terry Gilliam, the latter eventually deeming the complex novel "unfilmable". During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce a script by David Hayter; Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass were also attached to the project before it was canceled over budget disputes. The project returned to Warner Bros., where Snyder was hired to direct Paramount remained as international distributor. Fox sued Warner Bros. for copyright violation arising from Gordon's failure to pay a buy-out in 1991, which enabled him to develop the film at the other studios. Fox and Warner Bros. settled this before the film's release with Fox receiving a portion of the gross. Principal photography began in Vancouver, September, 2007. As with his previous film 300, Snyder closely modeled his storyboards on the comic, but chose to not shoot all of Watchmen using chroma key and opted for more sets.The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on March 6, 2009, grossing $55 million on the opening weekend, and grossed over $185 million at the worldwide box office. It divided film critics; some gave it overwhelmingly positive reviews for the dark and unique take on the superhero genre, while others derided it for the same reason, as well as the R-rating, the running time, and the much-publicized accuracy to the graphic novel. A DVD based on elements of the Watchmen universe was released, including an animated adaptation of the comic Tales of the Black Freighter within the story, starring Gerard Butler, and the documentary Under the Hood, detailing the older generation of superheroes from the film's back-story. A director's cut with 24 minutes of additional footage was released in July, 2009.

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[viramont90]

this was actually pretty cool.

[AMMProductions1997]

Thanks. this was my favorite scene

[viramont90]

just submit the part with Mr. Manhattans penis and everybody wins.

[AMMProductions1997]

LOL il see what i can do

[AColonDashSix]

Why does Dr. Manhattan even act surprised? He experiences time as a single point, with his entire life in every instance.

SHOULDN'T HE HAVE SEEN THAT COMING?

[CCRockit]

@georgetapadbol

While i agree with most of what you said and as hypocritical as The Comedian is...Dr Manhatten DID just stand there and watch, Dr Manhatten is a God basicly....he could easily change the world with a snap of his fingers and chose not to...why? he doesn't care.

[CrocoDuck420]

LOL Giant Blue Wang

[EnchantedSweetheart]

@georgetapadbol I agree completely.

[OleScrubby]

even though this movie is brutal and violent and dark and all those things, it still manages to be very deep meaningful at the same time. thats deserving of plenty of awards, in my opinion

[1tephania]

@Warrantofficer13

The US went easy on North Vietnam, as it is on the Talibans. Germans and the Japanese had to deal with a full American conscription churning out millions of American soldiers and a full war economy dedicated almost solely to the war effort. The US fought the WW2 with all hands free; it fought the Vietnam war, and is fighting the Afghanistan war, with both hand tied and only with its left foot.

[georgetapadbol]

Am I the only one that can't stand people like the Comedian? guys that take what they want, how they want , get rid of it when they get bored and let other people deal with consequences, and when they deal with it make a mess AND on top of that give you lecture about human nature and life? I can relate to Dan , Laurie, Roschach, Ozymandias, even Dr Manhattan for god's sake. But I hate the guts of the Comedian. If anyone got it coming it's him. And I think that he still got it easy.

[TheRpm1999]

Wow, even Dr Manhattan gets flashbacks of 'Nam.

[ChemicalWrath]

He's alone with all that power, with no equal.

[egglot12]

@ShadowShroud7

To sit back and do nothing when you have all the power you need to stop a crime is just as bad as doing the crime, IMO. They both revealed the worst aspects of humanity, one in an active way and another in a passive one..