Saturday Morning Watchmen (2009)
I love that this short — created by Harry Partridge and posted a day before the Zack Snyder movie was released — exists. It presents a happier version of the Watchmen, as if they were a Saturday morning cartoon, with a buff Nite Owl, Ozymandias saving the Comedian from falling, Rorschach being an animal-loving comedy […]
Tales of the Black Freighter (2009)
One of my favorite things about Watchmen is that in the universe of that story, superheroes are real, so comic books never needed to write about them. Instead, pirate comics became the best sellers. Published by National Comics (the original name for DC Comics in our universe) and written by Max Shea and artists Joe Orlando […]
Under the Hood (2009)
Directed by Eric Matthies and written by Hans Rodionoff, who was also the writer of the two Lost Boys sequels, this was included on the Tales of the Black Freighter DVD. It’s an in-universe documentary featuring a television interview with Hollis Mason (Stephen McHattie, The People Next Door) the first Nite Owl, about his life. Despite […]
Watchmen Chapter One (2024)
Directed by Brandon Vietti and written by J. Michael Straczynski, the Watchmen animated movie gets a longer running time than the 2009 movie, which is the first good thing about it. Artist Dave Gibbons served as a consulting producer on the film, while Alan Moore, the writer, goes uncredited due to his displeasure with anyone adapting […]
Watchmen (2009)
I saw Watchmen in the first row of a packed theater, my face feeling like it was shoved against the screen, as the sound was so loud that it felt like it had crawled inside my brain and was screaming inside my skull. Watchmen probably should have never been made. The graphic novel by writer Alan Moore […]
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