DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Watchmen DVD Details: Director’s Cut, Black Freighter Edition

  • Yaanu · 9 months ago
    I'd like to see a nice, complete Completely Uncut Edition, combining both the Black Freighter scenes and the Director's Cut. Appease to the small percentage in the Venn Diagram of DVD addicts.

    I suppose I'll just wait for the fan edit.
  • CaptainReg0981 · 9 months ago
    I don't care much of the Black Freighter but I'm too psyched for the damn movie thinking there are advance tix for this movie and then I'm planing to get the hard cover Watchmen graphic novel (20% off courtesy of Amazon.com j/k it's not true but I can get it cheaper). Holy crap Zack definitely tried to shorten the movie but I guess can't always cut the good damn parts. Thank you DVD release (and Blu-ray of course Blue Ray will have more shit than the reglr DVD).

    And oh do we see more of sexy Malin and Carla rrrrrrrwoooarrrr!!
  • ERoBB · 9 months ago
    I want the huge 3 hour 40 minute version with all the bells and whistles.
  • RobertFure · 9 months ago
    Its my understanding that the Black Freighter edition will be the Director's Cut + The Black Freighter footage. It will be the absolute most complete disc they could make without putting in the outtakes. If you check the run times, when you add in Black Freighter to Directors Cut, you get the Black Freighter Edition runtime.

    No word on it, but I'd bet that edition will also include the "Under the Hood" footage, which is going to be paired with Tales of the Black Freighter on a separate release. I think you'll be satisfied with the disc that comes out last quarter.
  • RobertFure · 9 months ago
    Just a note: These run times were approximate and given off the cuff. If you're hearing of longer editions, Zack Snyder (or the Producers) probably just gave different numbers to different groups, as they didn't have any official notes on hand or anything. There will, for now, be only these 3 releases - Theatrical (2:35ish), Directors Cut (3hrs and change), Black Freighter (3:25+hrs).
  • John Strickland · 9 months ago
    Is it just me, or are we getting ahead of ourselves talking about ultra-special-extended-unrated-director's cut editions of a movie we haven't seen yet?

    I mean, we don't know if the movie's any good yet.

    But, then again, I understand you guys need shit to write about, so I digress...
  • Chris · 9 months ago
    John, this is news. It isn't that they just needed something to write about. This information came right out of Zack Snyder's mouth! Why would they not report this?

    Of course most of us don't know if the movie is any good, but we will soon!
  • RobertFure · 9 months ago
    And I feel with Watchmen and its fans, pretty much all of them know the graphic novel is too long to be entirely on the screen. By now, most people know the movie is around 2:30 and that stuff had to be cut. People want to know when/if/what they're going to see of the rest of the story. Snyder is on the ball with all this info probably to put the fans at ease. This was his way of saying "Chill guys, we filmed it all and you will see it all."
  • Mladen · 9 months ago
    Agreed.
    It could be a ploy on the part of the production studio: "We think our movie is SO GOOD that you're going to want 3 consecutive dvd releases, and you're going to happily accept our greedy and incredibly obvious double-dipping release of two different directors cuts."
  • Mladen · 9 months ago
    Is it just me or does Ozymandias look just like Robin in Batman Forever/Batman+Robin? It doesn't instill confidence in me.
  • CaptainReg0981 · 9 months ago
    I think the costume in the movie is better looking than the one on the graphic novel but hey I think it's "flashy".
  • MoMo · 9 months ago
    it's meant to be a parody of the costumes of those films.
  • steveface · 5 months ago
    so stoked on this dvd release! i cant wait to watch the director's cut. in the meantime i will jsut keep listening to the soundtrack...check out this cool preview:

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid4...
  • steveface · 5 months ago
    so stoked on this dvd release! i cant wait to watch the director's cut. in the meantime i will jsut keep listening to the soundtrack...check out this cool preview:

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid4...
  • steveface · 5 months ago
    so stoked on this dvd release! i cant wait to watch the director's cut. in the meantime i will jsut keep listening to the soundtrack...check out this cool preview:

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid4...
  • steveface · 5 months ago
    so stoked on this dvd release! i cant wait to watch the director's cut. in the meantime i will jsut keep listening to the soundtrack...check out this cool preview:

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid4...
  • Me · 5 months ago
    I definetly need the black freighter edition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!