New To Theatres This Weekend: Watchmen, Explicit Ills, The Horsemen

Posted by Sean on March 6th, 2009   Filed under: New Releases

Although there are a handful of movies in limited release this weekend, such as the Dennis Quaid/Ziyi Zhang thriller The Horsemen, and the festival hit Explicit Ills, the only movie that 99% of us want to see right now is Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. Of course, this begs the question: who will watch the Watchmen? Will this be a bigger breakthrough hit than 300 was, or will it be confined solely to the comic book literati? I probably won’t see it for another day or two, so feel free to start the discussion here.

Watchmen
The Horsemen (limited)
Explicit Ills (limited)
12 (limited)
13B (limited)
Everlasting Moments (limited)
Shuttle (limited)
The Blue Tooth Virgin (limited)

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Comments (5)

  1. I’ll probably catch the sunday matinee, I’m not a big opening night guy. Everytime a commercial for this has come on though I’ve had to stop what I was doing and watch. It looks amazing and I’m looking forward to it more then anything else right now.

    Posted by Alex R. Cronk-Young on March 6th, 2009

  2. I haven’t read the graphic novel, but the trailer looked good so I was planning to go see it… until I heard how mixed the reviews are. The visuals (judging by the trailer) look right up my alley, but the story according to some of the reviews fails to translate. I guess the safest way to go is pick up the graphic novel first.

    Sean, when can we expect your spoiler-free review? And are Greg & Jay seeing the movie in time for the next podcast?

    Posted by Bas on March 6th, 2009

  3. I’ll try and have a review up by Sunday at the latest.

    Posted by Sean on March 6th, 2009

  4. Going to see Watchmen tonight, got the graphic novel yesterday and finished the 1st 6 chapters so far. Hopefully I’ll get to finish it before I see the film.

    Posted by Primal on March 6th, 2009

  5. Watchmen never looked interesting to me. I don’t understand why people are hyped about this one. Is the story that good? Or just the usual comic/internet crowd getting excited about every movie? 300 was a comedy with good action scenes for me. Anyways, should be an interesting review on the podcast.

    Posted by joe on March 6th, 2009

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