Watchmen
Watchmen (2009)
Directed by Zack Snyder
Genres - Science Fiction | Sub-Genres - Superhero Film | Release Date - Mar 6, 2009 (USA - IMAX) | Run Time - 161 min. | Countries - USA | MPAA Rating - R
Synopsis by Jeremy Wheeler
300's Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country's last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book's release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio.
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $130,000,000 USD
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| Box office | $108,000,000 USD
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![Watchmen - Filmvalley Magazine Cover [Netherlands] (March 2009)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/s/a/sa1tvqkvwz7rr1wq.jpg?skj2io4l)
![Watchmen - L'ecran Fantastique Magazine Cover [France] (March 2009)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/0/3/03picck8k8jmk8.jpg?skj2io4l)
Rorschach: Some nice flowers.
- If you looks closely during the opening credits sequence when Silk Spectre is having her photo taken with the police, you can see the Police Chief slyly trying to look down her blouse. Watch him turn his head and grin.
- All of the U.S. flags in the film have 51 stars, because in the film's alternate history, Vietnam became the 51st state after America won the Vietnam War.
- Author Alan Moore preemptively disowns all filmed adaptations of his work. When asked in an interview with ReelzChannel.com about original 'Watchmen' writer Alan Moore's dismissal of his movie, Zack Snyder was quoted as saying "Worst case scenario - Alan puts the movie on his DVD player on a cold Sunday in London and watches and says, 'Yeah, that doesn't suck too bad.'" When this was brought up with Moore himself in a later interview in the British Tripwire comics fanzine, the writer commented "That's the worst case scenario? I think he's underestimated what the worst case scenario would be... that's never going to happen in my DVD player in 'London' [Moore very famously lives in Northampton]. I'm never going to watch this fucking thing." Still, Snyder has said that his ultimate hope is that someday Moore will actually see the film and feel it to be a decent representation of the original graphic novel.
- Rorschach's name refers to the famous Rorschach inkblot test used in psychotherapy. In the graphic novel, we learn that the material from his mask was intended for a dress belonging to Catherine Genovese, better known as "Kitty" Genovese. Her murder in public view sparked an outcry about bystander apathy.
- When Dan Dreiberg and Hollis Mason watch a TV news report referencing Rorschach, they see a black and white 'file footage' of Rorschach walking quickly away and to the right of the camera position, glancing back over his right shoulder momentarily and then continues walking away. That footage is intentionally designed to precisely mimic the infamously-disputed film of Bigfoot (known as the Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967).
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