NOV. 03
Watchmen The Ultimate Cut (US)
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 215 mins | Rated R |
In an alternate reality, it's 1985, 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 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?
Features include:
Disc 1:
* Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Film
* 2 new commentaries by Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons
Disc 2: Over 3 Hours of Special Features
* The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics
* Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes
* Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World
* Watchmen: Video Journals
* My Chemical Romance Desolation Row
* Under The Hood – a retrospective look at the biography by Hollis Mason – the original Nite Owl
* Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen
Disc 3: Digital Copy of the Theatrical Version
Disc 4 (Discs 4 & 5 on DVD): Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comics