Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Coming in November
Get your wallets ready folks, it’s time for another double dip! But you knew this was coming right? Zack Snyder’s initial release of Watchmen on DVD and Blu-ray may have been his Director’s Cut with all the additional footage added back in, but if you’ll recall, he also said he wanted to release the movie complete with the Tales of the Black Freighter animated movie integrated into the story as well. And that’s exactly what you’ll get from Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut, heading to DVD and Blu-ray this November!
This new version of the movie also includes two audio commentary tracks (which were notably absent from the original DVD release for Watchmen) featuring both Zack Snyder and illustrator Dave Gibbons. Other extras include:
- 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 music video
- Under The Hood
- Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen
- Digital copy of the Theatrical Version
- All 12 episodes of Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comics
As far as I know, most of these extras were previously available. The 5-disc DVD and and 4-disc Blu-ray will retail for $43.87 and $59.99 respectively; look for them in stores on November 3rd. Will you be picking this up?
Comments (11)
The directors cut was no better than the original cut, which wasn’t that good.
Posted by Henrik on September 24th, 2009I agree, the Director’s Cut wasn’t that good. Adding the animated parts into the movie will probably make it even worse imo.
Posted by RaphNL on September 24th, 2009I feel the movie plays better each time I have seen it. However…. I do wonder if this new cut will make the movie seem too choppy and pull the story off of its rails… I will check it out for sure.
Posted by Big Hungry on September 24th, 2009one more thing…. I do hope they have at least a rebate for previous owners because most the extras already have been released.
Posted by Big Hungry on September 24th, 2009I have the Director’s Cut… this is a useless double dip. The animated episodes were interesting, but purely as a novelty.
Posted by Jon Rocks on September 24th, 2009“Will you be picking this up?” Hell yes!
Posted by Marc on September 24th, 2009As a Watchmen fan this is what I’ve been waiting for – so gawd gawd YES!
Posted by Billy Boyd Cape on September 25th, 2009I don’t think the director’s cut really added a whole lot in that you really don’t miss anything by only having seen the original, but I guess it’s kinda like the Lord of the Rings extended versions. They aren’t simply the original cuts with the deleted scenes spliced back in, but are re-conceived, edited, and scored as literally a brand new version. Snyder’s cut falls somewhere in between, but I did like some of the additional glances into the story, such as when Hollis Mason is fighting off the gang (his death is cut out of the original), his punches are inter-cut with him punching out some of his old enemies, I thought that was kind of neat to see shots of them, however briefly. Overall, the new cut doesn’t extend the length all that much. If Snyder had wanted to shoot literally everything in the novel, the movie would have been probably 4-5 hours. Overall, I would not recommend getting the Ultimate edition, unless you just absolutely have to have everything. You’re not getting Snyder’s cool look-in video commentary from the first release, and the extras you’re getting aren’t worth it. Maybe Gibbons’ commentary but that’s it. I don’t care for Snyder as a commentator. His 300 commentary was not that good. Some directors are much better commentators than other. Snyder was more just reacting to stuff happening on the screen or when an actor would appear he would say “Hey there’s so-and-so, wow he/she is a good actor.”
Posted by Maopheus on September 26th, 2009What is the running time of this version? I’ll be buying it cos I loved the movie, and didn’t buy the directors cut, waiting for this release instead
Posted by Ben on September 26th, 2009I’m still wondering what the people who are supposed fans of the gn were expecting with this movie. Watchmen the movie effectively captured, in essence and in detail, the story Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons told. Wake up folks, it was a looonnng comic book that made a looonnng movie.
If people unfamiliar with the source material didn’t like it, that’s a shame. I say to them, read it then try watching the movie again.
Bit…
Some of these “fans” have just jumped on a critical bandwagon (started by those who never got near the book/gn/comic/whatever) to seem hip or cool or something.
Snyder and co. did a great job! The film deserved a better reception than it got, especially from its own
“community.”
“Hey man, let’s rent Dark Knight and Iron Man again!”
Posted by TE on September 27th, 2009$60. looks like it’s shaping to be $100 AUS. I pass.
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