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"Watchmen's" "Freighter" plot sails onto DVD
For years, fans have always assumed that should “Watchmen” come to the big screen that the “Tales of the Black Freighter” plot would be the first cut made to the story. Now, it’s going to be its own movie, with WB set to release a “Tales of the Black Freighter” DVD a mere five days after "Watchmen" premieres next March.
The animated “Freighter” will be directed by Zack Snyder and the disc also will include a documentary style look at the characters of “Watchmen” called “Under the Hood,” the same name used for the faux autobiography of Hollis Mason that supplemented the first few issues of the comic series. This experimental release is part of an effort to inject some of the old life into the flagging DVD market. Fans can expect a regular DVD of "Watchmen," followed by the eventual “ultimate” edition in which the “Freighter” footage is edited into “Watchmen.”
Meanwhile, a pic of the 1940s heroes, the Minutemen, has shown up at AICN. Take a look:
The picture plays a fairly prominent role in the book, though a quick flip through a copy shows no one clear look at the full image. The costumes are so far the element that raises the most questions about whether the screen “Watchmen” will live up to the print version. Not that they’re bad, but they do look a little too much like the standard Hollywood superhero costume of the 1990s — the era of “The Flash” TV show and the Tim Burton “Batman” flicks — when puffy muscles and sculptured armor were the look. That could be cause for worry among fans who appreciate the serious, literary tone of the novel and would be quick to cry foul at the first hint of "Watchmen" tilting toward comicbook action.
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"The costumes are so far the element that raises the most questions about whether the screen “Watchmen” will live up to the print version. Not that they’re bad, but they do look a little too much like the standard Hollywood superhero costume of the 1990s — the era of “The Flash” TV show and the Tim Burton “Batman” flicks — when puffy muscles and sculptured armor were the look."
That comment shows me you know little to nothing about this movie for one and I fear coming to this blog was a grave misstep in my pop culture knowledge. Get a clue, Snyder is doing solid work here to the Citizen Kane of Comics. To anyone who loves the series and has seen what he has done, so far so good. My only complaint thus far is in if the Owl will be fit as the toy which is out of character to me or the out of shape character that made so much sense in the Novel.
Anyhow what you should be worried and commenting about is how the Studio retards who are blocking Snyder and the Watchmen vision by cutting the film short. These are the same people who claim to love and acclaim Citizen Kane as the best movie in cinema history but would have been the same people trying to squash the film back in its day. I have high hopes foe the Ultimate Blu-Ray disk version to have every scene filmed and the Freighter subplot intact.
Posted by: Johnny Neat | June 04, 2008 at 07:13 AM