Watchmen 2009 ULTIMATE CUT

redbaron_99

Quality movie. Wouldnt be paying 50 euro for it, though. Special edition or not.

Soft Falling Rain

Interesting comments from Snyder in response to criticism from Joel Silver. I can't really comment on the source material or Gilliam's treatment, but you have to admire Snyder's passion, even if what he says comes across as slight digs towards Gilliam.

"If you read the Gilliam ending, it's completely insane," Zack said, referring to the ending where Doctor Manhattan prevents his own creation which causes a lot of changes to the story.


"The fans would have been thinking that they were smoking crack," Deborah Snyder added.



"The fans would have stormed the castle on that one," Zack said. "So, honestly, I made Watchmen for myself. It's probably my favorite movie that I've made. And I love the graphic novel and I really love everything about the movie. I love the style. I just love the movie and it was a labor of love. And I made it because I knew that the studio would have made the movie anyway and they would have made it crazy. So, finally I made it to save it from the Terry Gilliams of this world."

http://www.superherohype.com/news/293785-zack-snyder-responds-to-joel-silvers-watchmen-criticism

Chris_Heilong

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

Interesting comments from Snyder in response to criticism from Joel Silver. I can't really comment on the source material or Gilliam's treatment, but you have to admire Snyder's passion, even if what he says comes across as slight digs towards Gilliam.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/293785-zack-snyder-responds-to-joel-silvers-watchmen-criticism

I agree, Silvers proposed ending sound stupid to me and at odds with the Graphic Novel, I wouldn't mind the Giant Squid but the ending of the Film probably made more real world scenes.

johnny_ultimate

Some other actual quotes from Zack Snyder in the Huffington Post interview, which pretty much speak for themselves without the need for me to add any smarmy commentary:

I would not have grabbed something from out of the air and said, "Oh, here's a cool ending" just because it's cool.

I think if that movie came out now -- and this is just my opinion -- because now that we've had "Avengers" and comic book culture is well established, I think people would realize that the movie is a satire. You know, the whole movie is a satire.

I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics. We set out to make smarter movies than what they're perceived to be, do you know what I mean?

And, also, "It looks like a video game." Well, maybe it's supposed to look like a video game.