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Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut [Blu-ray]
 
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The Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut is a new and final version of the blockbuster film from Zack Snyder. This version weaves Tales of the Black Freighter into the Watchmen Director’s Cut film that makes this the perfect gift for every die hard fan of the graphic novel.

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Truly A Wonderful Cinematic Experience
 
Review Date: March 10, 2010
Reviewer: Jacob Warren, USA
As a graphic novel "Watchmen" is often cited as possibly/definitively the greatest graphic novel ever produced. A book with so mighty a reputation would require nothing short of a miracle to be translated successfully into a feature film.

While I do not believe in miracles I do believe that something very similar happened: director Zack Snyder helmed just such a project, the end result being a film that is as true to the source material as one could realistically hope for. I consider this true to the point of committing what some might see as sacrilege by never again reading the graphic novel in favor of this cinematic experience.

Snyder's stylistic approach serves the story splendidly, often perfectly reproducing scenes from the acclaimed graphic novel not because the fans would demand it but because he obviously loves the book.

The cast--the entire cast, no exceptions--delivers performances true to their characters' graphic novel counterparts. Jackie Earle Haley is especially impressive in his role as Rorschach.

The film's atmosphere is established beautifully through scenery, an amazing score and an interesting song selection for the soundtrack--the final touch on what is without a doubt a solid and exciting film.

For the Ultimate Cut edition, a handful of sequences--often pieces of scenes already in the movie--and the previously left-out Tales of the Black Freighter are added to the already amazing theatrical cut. The extra scenes and bits further the fullness of the adaptation. The Black Freighter scenes can be jarring at first due to these sequences being animated, but this soon makes sense according to the following logic: The Black Freighter exists within the world of Watchmen as a comic book that is being read by a New York youth; while live-action would have been nice, animation makes sense a comic book can be thought of as a frame-by-frame cartoon wherein the reader fills in the between-the-panels action with his or her imagination, and thus animation resembles what most people see in their heads when reading comics. The dark and brooding nature of the Freighter sequences is well-rendered, with excellent voice work from Gerard Butler. The only problem here is the importance of the Freighter story might not be as evident without having read the graphic novel beforehand, as the graphic novel makes that importance more obvious.

Nevertheless, the Ultimate Cut completes Zack Snyder's vision of bringing the Watchmen in its entirety to film and is worth buying for that alone. However, this box set also includes a second disc of intriguing bonus features (some of which are set within the fictional world of the film and enhance the experience), a third disc containing a digital copy of the theatrical cut (which I find useless; I will likely replace this disc with the theatrical release dvd) and the 2-disc Complete Motion Comic, all within a nifty box.

It's a release more than worth its price tag. If I could give it six stars, as opposed to five, I would.
great great box set
 
Review Date: February 28, 2010
Reviewer: Marc M. Wijnen, california
truely excellent, i owned the game and that came with a blue ray copy of the movie but this has soo much more and im very very pleased. friends are jelouse when they come over
worst super hero movie ever
 
Review Date: February 22, 2010
Reviewer: MattM, Sacramento, ca United States
This is the most boring rambling movie, i've seen in a long time. Not even interested in the half baked characters you could care less whats going to happen.

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