Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (US BD) in March

[Bullseye]

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id...-in-march.html

[Blu Man]

This is the series where there are a lot of close ups of each frame and Moore narrates, correct?

[HumanMedia]

Isnt "Watchman - Black Freighter / Under the Hood" coming out the same day?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Blu Man

This is the series where there are a lot of close ups of each frame and Moore narrates, correct?

No, its the entire comic read by one man with slight animation on the panels to make the original art "cinematic". Think of it as a comics version of a "book on tape". I've got the first 9 episodes -- taken for what it is, it's not bad. If they could get a full voice cast together, I'd be interested in seeing them give The Dark Knight Returns and the Sandman comics a similar treatment.

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

No, its the entire comic read by one man with slight animation on the panels to make the original art "cinematic". Think of it as a comics version of a "book on tape". I've got the first 9 episodes -- taken for what it is, it's not bad. If they could get a full voice cast together, I'd be interested in seeing them give The Dark Knight Returns and the Sandman comics a similar treatment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah I saw some of it on Youtube. And the guy who does the voice over is Alan Moore. The Author.

[Kaiju]

maybe....

[katharsis]

Originally Posted by HumanMedia

Isnt "Watchman - Black Freighter / Under the Hood" coming out the same day?

Tell me more, please!

[dvd_mazter]

Awesome! That looks pretty cool.

[BStecke]

Originally Posted by Blu Man

Yeah, yeah, yeah I saw some of it on Youtube. And the guy who does the voice over is Alan Moore. The Author.

Alan Moore is not the narrator.

[ThingontheFloor]

Originally Posted by Blu Man

Yeah, yeah, yeah I saw some of it on Youtube. And the guy who does the voice over is Alan Moore. The Author.

No way that voiceover is Alan Moore, he distances himself pretty far from anything Watchmen related. I thought the voiceover was fine except they definitely should have hired a woman for Silk Spectre II.

Cool to hear about the BD release, can't see myself paying a bunch for it, but would buy at the $10-15 point.

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by BStecke

Alan Moore is not the narrator.

So this is isn't the movie were refering to?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfuj_5Z9l8

[Jimmy Smith]

Not to be a synic but why buy a motion comic when we are getting a blockbuster movie around the same time.

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Smith

Not to be a synic but why buy a motion comic when we are getting a blockbuster movie around the same time.

Agreed. Whats the point? I've always thought that this kind of stuff was boring. If you want to get the novel experience just read the book!!!!

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Blu Man

Yeah, yeah, yeah I saw some of it on Youtube. And the guy who does the voice over is Alan Moore. The Author.

No, it's NOT.

Alan Moore read some of the comic years ago, and someone spliced his reading of Rorshach onto the motion comic version in that YouTube clip.

Alan Moore does not voice anyone in the Motion Comics version of The Watchmen.

*sigh*

You're going to make me look it up, aren't you...

Okay, here it is...

Watchmen: Motion Comics
read by
Tom Stechschulte

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

No, it's NOT.

Alan Moore read some of the comic years ago, and someone spliced his reading of Rorshach onto the motion comic version in that YouTube clip.

Alan Moore does not voice anyone in the Motion Comics version of The Watchmen.

*sigh*

You're going to make me look it up, aren't you...

Okay, here it is...

Watchmen: Motion Comics
read by
Tom Stechschulte

Ok, ok, calm down. No need to get so upset. I put the youtube video in another one of my posts asking if this was the same thing and now you've answered my question. Calm down. Not that big of a deal.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by katharsis

Tell me more, please!

An animated version of the Tale of the Black Freighter was to be included in the film, but has been cut (yet another sacrifice when dealing with the time constraints). The animated tale is being released as its own DVD to hype the Watchmen movie, with rumours flying it will be re-incorporated into the film for the director's cut.

For those who don't know, the Tale of the Black Freighter runs through many "episodes" of The Watchmen comic, often providing allusions, metaphors, and foreshadowed symbolism of the main plot. I could detail these, but hey -- its the internet. If you really want to know, you can find it yourself, probably in less than 30 seconds.

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

An animated version of the Tale of the Black Freighter was to be included in the film, but has been cut (yet another sacrifice when dealing with the time constraints). The animated tale is being released as its own DVD to hype the Watchmen movie, with rumours flying it will be re-incorporated into the film for the director's cut.

For those who don't know, the Tale of the Black Freighter runs through many "episodes" of The Watchmen comic, often providing allusions, metaphors, and foreshadowed symbolism of the main plot. I could detail these, but hey -- its the internet. If you really want to know, you can find it yourself, probably in less than 30 seconds.

I'm not sure i'll want to Watch it in the actually movie. It was nice in the book but I never thought it would apply well to the screen. Not a fan of pirates ether.

[Jimmy Smith]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

An animated version of the Tale of the Black Freighter was to be included in the film, but has been cut (yet another sacrifice when dealing with the time constraints). The animated tale is being released as its own DVD to hype the Watchmen movie, with rumours flying it will be re-incorporated into the film for the director's cut.

For those who don't know, the Tale of the Black Freighter runs through many "episodes" of The Watchmen comic, often providing allusions, metaphors, and foreshadowed symbolism of the main plot. I could detail these, but hey -- its the internet. If you really want to know, you can find it yourself, probably in less than 30 seconds.

Surprising that something that is supposidly barely a month away seems so mysterious. We haven't seen any footage of the animated movie, know its length, or well anthing. We know that Gerald Butler will provide the voice of the Captain and that it will be an R rated anime style movie. The rumors that it will be incorperated into the directers cut make me alittle apprehensive to buy it right way but I will definutly give it a look

[reginaroadie]

Yeah, whenever I read the book I always skipped over the Black Freighter stuff. It's the most extraneous stuff in the book and was probably the first thing cut, since it wouldn't impact the overall story. It's good that they're still doing it for the fans and doing different things with it for the DVD/Blu release.

I think that when we see it for the first time, that we should keep in mind that we're seeing the Cliff Notes version and that the huge giant Blu of WATCHMEN that comes out at the end of the year will be the full version.

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by reginaroadie

Yeah, whenever I read the book I always skipped over the Black Freighter stuff. It's the most extraneous stuff in the book and was probably the first thing cut, since it wouldn't impact the overall story. It's good that they're still doing it for the fans and doing different things with it for the DVD/Blu release.

I think that when we see it for the first time, that we should keep in mind that we're seeing the Cliff Notes version and that the huge giant Blu of WATCHMEN that comes out at the end of the year will be the full version.

I thought about skipping over it but I decided not to. For me at least, it was one of those thing that once I got to it I took a pained deep breath. I wanted Watchmen! Not the black freightor stuff. But, Whatever. Not that big of a deal.