Watchmen

My Samsung Blu-ray player wont play Blu-ray movies

August 23, 2009

I was watching Watchmen on Blu-ray last night when the picture froze. If you’ve seen the move, it was the scene where Silk Spectre and Nite Owl take a stroll down a dark alley and they end up going Old Testament on a bunch of street thugs who were up to no good. I tried [...]

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New 'Watchmen' lawsuit, this time it's over coffee

April 7, 2009

Massimo Zanetti, the maker of various crappy grocery store coffees including Chock Ful o’Nuts, is suing Warner Brothers, DC Comics, and the Organic Coffee Cartel over coffee that looks an awful lot like a can of Chock Ful o’Nuts. The coffee, Nite Owl Dark Roast, is being sold online with a percentage of the proceeds [...]

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Animation on Blu-ray: is there a difference?

March 19, 2009

When the Watchmen motion comic was released on March 3rd, I found myself wondering which version I should purchase.  Should I buy the high-definition Blu-ray version or the regular DVD version?  Would I really see a difference between to the two formats? I went ahead and picked up the Blu-ray version. I’ll be perfectly honest [...]

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'Watchmen' has a disappointing second week

March 16, 2009

I guess this means Watchmen will be the first and last nearly three-hour, R-rated superhero movie and maybe that’s not such a terrible thing.

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When it comes to the ending of the 'Watchmen' movie, I agree with Hitler (SPOILER ALERT)

March 8, 2009

We went and watched Watchmen yesterday. Though I absolutely loved the movie, I didn’t care much for the ending. Not because it differed from the ending in the graphic novel (because it did), but because it was flawed. In the graphic novel, the cold war comes to an immediate end by the introduction of a [...]

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Early reviews for 'Watchmen' movie are trickling in

March 4, 2009

Watchmen opens this Friday, but reviews are already starting to trickle in over at the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Though it currently has an overall T-Meter rating of 73%, looking at only the reviews from the top critics gives it a rating of only 14%. That’s not good. Devin Gordon from Newsweek: Snyder has [...]

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Don Murphy: "Alan Moore is a hypocrite and a liar"

February 18, 2009

Don Murphy, Hollywood producer behind films such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, and Transformers has a few choice words for comic book master scribe Alan Moore. Both From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were films based on Alan Moore comics. From AV Club: Alan Moore is a hypocrite and a [...]

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Watchmen trailer shares music with worst superhero movie ever made

February 16, 2009

If you’ve watched the trailer for the upcoming Watchmen movie, you might have recognized the tune that accompanies the trailer. It’s The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning by the Smashing Pumpkins. It doesn’t look as though the song actually appears in the finished movie.  At least it’s not included in the official Watchmen [...]

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Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic

February 4, 2009

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic comes out on DVD and Blu-ray March 3, 2009. The individual chapters have been sporadically appearing in the iTunes store as $1.99 downloads. I think I purchased the first two, then promptly forgot about ever going back to see if the remaining chapters were ever made available or not. A [...]

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Boycotting 20th Century Fox over 'Watchmen' legal dispute

December 31, 2008

Some people are trying to form a boycott of 20th Century Fox over the studio’s insistence that they still own rights to any motion picture based on the Watchmen graphic novel.  A federal judge recently agreed with 20th Century Fox.  From the Facebook Free Watchmen group: 20th Century Fox is trying to prohibit the release [...]

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