Watchmen: The Riots

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. ***PS: I DO NOT OWN THIS MOVIE ALL COPYRIGHT GOES TO WARNER BROTHERS ENTERTAMENT AND DC COMICS

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[blismath56]

Does anybody know that song's name?

I love listening to this and see how the comedian whoopin' some ass!

[AMMProductions1997]

@blismath56 The song is called Boggie Man by KC and the Sunshine Band

[MrAguila]

London could do with The Comedian right now

[Sonereal]

The extended scene changes things completely. In the regular movie, it's like the Comedian just lost it and started attacking. Here, he gave the Hippies a warning and everything.

[117ty]

@A86

* sigh*

The Mob, the masses, the general public that's swayed by emotions and only emotions. If two people do something terrible while their at an OWS protest the general public doesn't care that it's just two people, they're just gonna group them with the rest of the movement. Exactly the reason why the OWS movement lost it's steam after those stories came out.

[A86]

@117ty - Which "mob" are you talking about? 2 bad people prove an entire movement is a waste of space?

[117ty]

@A86

" A woman holding a brothel in Occupy Boston in order to GET MORE PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT".

I understand that knowing the details are important, but the Mob doesn't care about the details; they focus on the fact that women are getting raped at some of the OWS rallies. This movement has lost all credibility and the only thing it's doing now is being a waste of space and air.

[A86]

@117ty - Tea Party rallies don't stay overnight. Any event where people stay overnight and women are unguarded it's not uncommon for at least one rape to occur. It's somewhat irrelevant since only 1 rapist has been proven to have any political connection with the OWS movement.

"a woman holding a brothel in Occupy Boston"

Another person with no connection to the movement taking advantage of the fact there are a bunch of men crowded together for days at a time outdoors.

[117ty]

@A86

No you shouldn't. You're right but that's not the point; Nothing like this happens at Tea Party rallies.I will willingly admit that I'm wrong if you can bring me any news article at all about any kind of illegal activity done in and Tea Party rally. By the by there are new reports of a woman holding a brothel in Occupy Boston in order to get more people to support the movement.

[A86]

@117ty - Yes, because OWS people are a bunch of rapists. *sarcasm* There have been about 3 or so rapes at those events, only 1 one of the rapists had any political connections to the OWS movement. The others were serial rapists who simply took advantage of the fact that there were women unguarded sleeping in tents in public (which is known to happen at any event where people sleep outdoors for long periods of time). Should the Tea Party be blamed for all criminals who are Tea Party sympathizers?

[117ty]

@A86

No, I'm saying a bunch of animals who use a political loophole as an excuse to rape women and terrorize normal people need to be bitchslapped back into whatever self-entitled hellhole they were shit out of.

[A86]

@117ty - So the Comedian is an arm of Wall Street now?

[CSavageSr]

All it takes is for one man to be awesome.