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List Price: $43.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 246
Released: November 10, 2009 |
| Our Price: $26.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut is a new and final version of the blockbuster film from Zack Snyder. This version weaves Tales of the Black Freighter into the Watchmen Director’s Cut film that makes this the perfect gift for every die hard fan of the graphic novel.
Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Reviews:
great movie killer extras 
2009-12-21 - Buy this edition if you like this movie. If you have not seen it yet rent it then buy this cut. it is worth every penny.
The Best Watchmen Movie Package 
2009-12-19 - I was pretty excited for this movie to finally come out. Not quite as excited as I was for The Dark Knight, but still. I watched the movie at 10PM opening night, and it was a little hard to keep up the excitement for the next 3 hours. Watching this version of the movie, the director's cut w/The Black Freighter cut into it, was at least an hour longer, but it was so much better. I also knew that this version was coming out so I didn't buy any of the other separate releases. Those were all to satiate WB's greed. The one thing I don't understand is the motion comic. If I own the original comic and I own the motion picture, then what the hell do I need with a motion comic? Other than that I am very happy with this package. If you haven't bought any of the other versions, this is obviously the version to get. So get it.
An E.T. video!
2009-12-17 - Words can't say the magnifiscent of that ultimate cut! Buy it and place it in a good place in you DVD'sThéque! It's a chef d'oeuvre!
The way to see Watchmen
2009-12-16 - This is the way to see Watchmen. Some people love the movie,and some hate it. Either way,this is the version you should see. It is the best version a "watchmen" movie,could be. And if you ask me: It's Great!!
Great movie, nearly great Ultimate Edition
2009-12-13 - As this full version of Watchmen is well over 3 hours long it is understandable that commercial constraints required a theatrical cut for uninitiated moviegoers (just imagine the bafflement of those expecting something a bit like X-Men!), but it was cynical and insulting to fans for the studio to release a so-called "Director's Cut" that is still an incomplete version relative to this "Ultimate Cut". Can we now safely assume that this is where the buck finally stops and there isnt a "Lighting Up Double Chuck Norris With Cheese Cut" in the pipeline?
I've been waiting for this Ultimate Cut since before the movie was in the cinema, and have not watched the Watchmen in any other version, as having read the comic I wanted to see Snyder's full uncompromised movie interpretation.
Was it worth the wait? Well, as I've not seen the shorter versions I can't say how it compares with them as a viewing experience; but standing alone it is very impressive - a true labour of love bringing virtually every page of the comic, including the prose, to the screen. A film of considerable length and girth - be prepared to use the pause button or double-cross your legs to make it all the way through in one sitting. Tales of the Black Freighter, spliced into the film in this edition, is just fantastic, and the problem of how to handle Under The Hood is solved brilliantly as an extra feature on disc 2 in the style of an 80's tv chat show, complete with commercial breaks. Like the comic, there is amazing detail in the props & backgrounds that will reward revisiting, for example the airships that hang like bombs over New York (and now edge inexoroably closer towards the World Trade Centre like 9/11 in slow motion).
If this had been the first time an Alan Moore comic had been made into a film I wonder if he would have a much higher opinion of Hollywood than he does now as a result of the defilement of some of his other works (although I must say I liked V for Vendetta even if he hated it). So, as anyone interested in this Ultimate Cut probably already knows, Ozymandias's plan is different in final detail to the comic, but its purpose and effect is the same; and in my judgement over-all there are more parts of the film that are absolutely faithful to the comic than there are parts that deviate from it. And, dare I say there was at least one deviation that I consider an improvement over the comic - the scene where Rorschach recounts the incident with the child killer - as the comic's version always struck me as a blatent rip-off of the demise of the Toe-Cutter in Mad Max.
I would give 4.5 rather than 5 stars because I am reviewing the product as well as the film, and in an Ultimate Edition I would have hoped for a menu on disc 1 where I can choose to watch any of the 3 cuts of the film or just the complete Black Freighter on its own, all in HD, as the content is all there on one disc and it is surely just a matter of the order in which the player strings it together. Instead we just get a low definition "digital copy" of the theatrical cut on a seperate disc. While this should save the inconvenience of having to rip and recode the movie in order to watch it on a low resolution portable device why cant we watch the full-length version we paid extra for? Battery life?
To anyone in the UK thinking of importing this version which is currently unavailable in our green and pleasant land: The Bluray plays happily on a standard unmodified UK PAL Playstation 3, and presumably any other UK player. BUT unfortunately Amazon.com will write the price of the product on the outside of the parcel, which means the Royal Mail will hold the parcel at your local depot until you turn up to pay import duty, and additionally a Royal Mail administration charge which is in excess of the import duty (and they have the audacity to go on strike for more money!). Amazon are not liable for any of that and there is no facility to pay it up-front, so you are looking at an inconvenient trip to the depot and quite a bit extra to pay over the apparent checkout price; but it is still a lot cheaper than buying the UK versions of the director's cut and the theatrical cut and tales of the black freighter and the motion comic seperately, which is all essentially included in the Ultimate Cut along with even more content.
