Watchmen

  • Theatrical - Wide 2009-03-06
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In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of... See more his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

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TV Review: Watchmen

Plot: Watchmen takes place in an alternative, contemporary reality in the United States, in which masked vigilantes became outlawed due to their violent methods. Despite this, some gather around in order to start a revolution while others are out to stop it before it...
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Early Watchmen talk!

I haven’t had a chance to see WATCHMEN in full yet (something I hope to rectify soon) but some lucky bastard out in Los Angeles was able to get into one of the early screenings that’s been going on. Most...

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EW Watchmen Covers!

WATCHMEN fever has officially reached overdrive, with the film’s release only a couple of weeks away. I walk down the street I see WATCHMEN posters. I turn on the television I see WATCHMEN coverage. I call my girlfriend, and listen...
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Morgan leads Losers

WATCHMEN hasn’t even hit theaters yet, but its stars are already getting a big biz bump. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is going from flashback victim to leading man, taking top poster placement for Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic...
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50th Watchmen poster

Is this yet another poster for the Zack Snyder directed, Alan Moore adapted WATCHMEN? You bet your ass it is. It’s an international poster and it shows the principal cast members all brooding and blue hued. It also shows that...
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Hot mug of Watchmen

Simply by virtue of being a big superhero/comic book movie, WATCHMEN is susceptible to all kinds of merchandising. And as is often the case, some of that merchandise is decent, some of it is rubbish, and some of it is…...
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Watchmen clippage

Well, goddamn, the marketing machine for the upcoming Zack Snyder directed, Alan Moore adapted WATCHMEN is absolutely out of control but what are we gonna do, not report on every single scrap of media that’s released about it? That’s crazy...
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INT: Patrick Wilson

Patrick Wilson infamously got part of his junk pseudo-removed in HARD CANDY, and his wife was the chick with dick in ROCK STAR. Now he’s playing a middle aged impotent superhero who needs his costume fetish to get off. If...
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INT: Jackie Earle Haley

If there was ever an instance of surprisingly perfect casting it has to be the choice of Jackie Earle Haley to play Rorschach in WATCHMEN. This former Bad News Bear has grown up, and buffed up, to become the living...
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INT: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I can’t claim I’ve never seen GREY’S ANATOMY, because I have a wife and so you’d know I was lying. I can tell you I’d never seen any episodes featuring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who is taking on a role about...

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Set Visit: Watchmen!

When I got the call to hit up the Watchmen set nearly a year and a half ago, I was happy to go since I’m a huge fan of the graphic novel. And while I had doubts that any big...
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