Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, 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. The film is set in an alternate history 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired 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 not to 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 fictional biography 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. The "Ultimate Cut" edition incorporated the Tales of the Black Freighter content into the narrative as it was in the original graphic novel, lengthening the runtime to 215 minutes, and was released on November 3, 2009.

Don't count bABA's review until Friday.

We have chatted about it, he has seen it. So include it.

Don't count bABA's review until Friday.

i never said the movie sucked. i just said that first time watching the film will leave you wanting to see the movie again for all the reasons one shouldn't have to pay to see a movie a second time.

i like to pay to see a movie again cause i enjoyed it

i want to see this movie again cause i know there was something good there. sadly, the first viewing left me more disoriented and confused. i need to watch it a second time to actually properly absorb it.

thats never a good thing in my books.

i like to pay to see a movie again cause i enjoyed it

i want to see this movie again cause i know there was something good there. sadly, the first viewing left me more disoriented and confused. i need to watch it a second time to actually properly absorb it.

thats never a good thing in my books.

I don't mind a movie that requires a second viewing for clarification. That just means its' a complicated movie, which is usually a good thing in my book, I like things that take thought process and multiple viewing to fully comprehend.

watchmen is not complicated. it requires clarification because its so bloody disjoint. like i said before somewhere, the first thing that you say walking out of Watchmen is 'disorienting'. sometimes things speed up, then slow down, then normal speed, then music kicks in, gone ... and you look at the watch and realize its only been 10 seconds.

clarification is one thing. reloaded needed clarification. MI needed clarification. Watchmen needs clarification for all the reasons a film shouldn't.

that ... doesn't make sense. how can i be a pessimist if i've already seen it.

whoa whoa whoa. Seven Pounds. Good Acting.

This thread has gone off the deep end.

Loyal, is there any acting you don't hate?

Good acting for starters.

which would be? Forgive me if I sound like I'm criticizing you, really not intending to, but all I see you say about acting is negative comments. Example of some good acting?

me: heh
Are there any awesome moments?

9:32 PM
Arsalan: a few
the whole movie is great
cept that zack keeps slowing shit down and speeding things up
like its happening at random

me: Lol
I can live with that