Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut [Blu-ray] | ![Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516NR3KWgcL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Zack Snyder
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 954
Format: Color, Special Edition, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 215 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.8 x 1.5
MPN: BR095490
UPC: 883929067985
EAN: 0883929067985
ASIN: B002IYEQR4
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: November 10, 2009
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/03/2009 Run time: 215 minutes Rating: R
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 Ultimate Cut Is Great. But I'm Afraid Even THIS Version Will Not Satisfy Some GN Fans Of Watchmen! March 15, 2010
Damon Smith (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, lets be clear. Its quite obveious that the movie will not make every graphic novel fan of Watchmen happy. Not even the Ultimate Cut can be good enough for some people. So, if you want the Director's Cut ONLY and the Black Freighter seperately, then I suggest you skip this Ultimate version. Or, if you are the person who couldn't stand the movie OR the director's cut OR the black freighter then skip the movie completely.
I for one, loved the Ultimate Cut. The only flaw is that I wish there was some extra deleted scenes but in the special features you don't get none of that. Instead you get "Under the Hood", "Story Within a Story: The Books of Watchmen", "Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes", "The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics", "Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World", "All 11 Watchmen Journals", and that music video by My Chemical Romance "Desolation Row" (I'm not that impressed with the music video but it eventually grows on you). Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved the special features disc. I just wish there was some actual deleted scenes from Watchmen, but we don't get that not even in The Ultimate Cut.
2nd: You get a digital copy of the theatrical version. But honestly, I personally can do without it so I left the disc inside the case as a souvenir. Do what you wish with your copy.
3rd: The Ultimate Cut comes with "The Complete Motion Comic" of Watchmen. Which is the Watchmen GN that comes to life page by page. Its great, but I definetely wish there was a female voice for all the female characters. It just feels... weird when Tom Stechschulte does the voice for Lourie. You don't want to accidently have a dream about some woman and having the voice of Tom speaking to you instead of a actual female voice. Yikes!
Finally: The Ultimate Cut also comes with two commentaries. One by Zack Snyder and one by Dave Gibbons. Zack Snyder got on my nerves, he kept saying "this shot is cool, this is cool, oh, and this was VERY cool!". Zack doesn't really give out much detail at all, he only covers a few things but thats about it. Dave Gibbon's commentary was a lot better. However, not even Dave can give out as much information about how they did the movie. There are lots of interesting scenes when Dave is speaking, but I'm afraid its still not enough.
Aside from a few flaws. The Ultimate Cut itself is a masterpiece. Like I was saying before, not for every fan of the GN. But the movie does get around quite nicely. You still get the same changed ending as the theatrical version. Sorry, but still no genetic squid. The new ending grew on me a lot though and it works fine in my opinion. Rorshach and Mal's story in the interrogation scene is still shorter. Dr. Manhattan's story is still trimed with that brief extended scene. The conversation with Lourie and Manhattan on mars is still trimed a little even with the brief extended scene. You get all the scenes from the Director's Cut. Don't worry, nothing is left out. There are some lines from the GN got mixed up in the movie. For example: A few characters may say someone else's line from the GN. Instead of Rorshach warning Ozymandias, its Dan (but I'm sure most people know that change by now). Granted: Watchmen - The Ultimate Cut is still not on par with Alan Moore's Graphic Novel and never will be. I notice a few minor changes in The Black Freighter as well, for example: I realise there were no yellow sharks. But to me, thats fine. Gerard Butler does fantastic as the Freighter character. Both the actors who played the Bernies are great. The acting in the whole 215 minute movie is solid. Its one of the most faithful Graphic Novel adaptations of Alan Moore's works and one of the most truest Graphic Novel adaptations ever made (aside from the changed ending). Again, the movie is amazing but use your money wisely when you buy this version.
4/5 stars for the special features Disc.
3/5 stars for the digital copy of theatrical edition.
4/5 stars for The Comic Within The Comic movie.
2/5 stars for Zack Snyder's Commentary.
4/5 stars for Dave Gibbon's Commentary.
5/5 stars for Under the Hood adaptation on the special features Disc.
5/5 stars for solid acting and animation on Tales of the Black Freighter.
Finally: 5/5 stars for The Ultimate Cut movie of Watchmen as a whole.
Average rating: 5/5 stars.
Definitive Collection March 15, 2010
zelotes (Gig Harbor, Wa USA)
This is why i purchase dvds. Excellent collection. Finally watched last night. It's long, but great to see the comic perfectly woven into the movie.
 Save your money and just buy the version w/out the Black Freighter March 14, 2010
R. M. W. (FPO, AE United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bottom Line: If you take away only one point from this review it's to save your money and get any of the other versions. Avoid versions with the Black Freighter in the movie. The extra animated Black Freighter footage in the "Ultimate Cut" version added ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the Watchmen story and actually took away from the movie.
I really liked the theatrical version of the Watchmen so I bought Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut thinking that surely it would have lots of deleted scenes and the addition of the Black Freighter would enhance the story. As far as I can tell the Black Freighter had nothing to do with the Watchmen. It was just a comic book that a teen in the movie was reading. [If pressed for time skip to next paragraph] The only connection I could see with the Black Freighter portions was it dealt with obsession to the point of self destruction which was a theme in the Watchmen. The problem is that the extra animated portions just slowed the movie down and took you away from what you paid to see. Actually it was like hitting PAUSE throughout the movie to stop and talk about a completely different movie. The Black Freighter should not even be called the Watchmen.
Unfortunately you end up paying a ridiculous amount of money for a movie that is actually two separate and competing movies. If you pay full price for this "Ultimate Cut" version you will be extremely disappointed.
To be fair the Black Freighter was a decent piece of animation but it needs to be a separate movie that is not associated with the Watchmen. The story however is rather predictable. It's essentially Heavy Metal meets Pirates of the Caribbean.
Truly A Wonderful Cinematic Experience March 10, 2010
Jacob Warren (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 February 28, 2010
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
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