After some initial skepticism, I drank the Kool Aid on Watchmen a while back. The more I see of it, the more I like it. It’s still hard to imagine a 2-hour movie doing the graphic novel justice, but Zack Snyder seems to have approached it in the right spirit and I admire the fact [...]

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I was the last person to know Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation was actually going to be R-rated, but now it’s official. The Hollywood Reporter published the latest batch of MPAA ratings today and Watchmen pulled an R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language. If you read the comic, you likely agree this is [...]

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Yesterday, Nikki Finke reported breathlessly on a lawsuit between Fox and Warner Bros. over Warner’s upcoming Watchmen directed by Zack Snyder (300). The project has kicked around Hollywood in one form or another since the original comic was published and Fox is claiming it owns the rights.
The big news yesterday was that the presiding judge [...]

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The crack investigative journalists at MTV asked Zack Snyder why he chose the Smashing Pumpkins’ The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (a slowed down version of The End is the Beginning is the End featured in that Schumacher Batman and Robin monstrosity) for the Watchmen trailer:
“For one, I felt like in mood, it [...]

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If you were online at all today, that strange substance that may have stained your clothing is nerd. That’s right. You got nerd on you. It turns out the Watchmen trailer which is set to premiere in front of Ye Olde Darke Knight was all over the Internets, first unofficially and then officially. It also [...]

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