Watchmen: Chapter I 4K UHD (2024)

[MifuneFan]

Chapter 2 coming December 3rd:

https://www.target.com/p/watchmen-ch...22#lnk=sametab

[drush9999]

Will wait for the inevitable 2 part collection.

[PNguyen]

They'll probably do a deluxe cut later

[Pieter V]

Disc Size: 37,428,687,058 bytes
Protection: AACS2
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[Pieter V]

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[cheez avenger]

Watched Chapter I and it is a mighty fine looking 4K disc.

[VectorCroc]

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[Infallible Presence]

Originally Posted by VectorCroc

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Thank you, I was able to get it!

[emailking]

Originally Posted by emailking

As promised, I am ready to tell you what I think. I am going to lump the 3 Watchmen movies together since they're so similar. I watched all 3 on my vacation. I watched Snyder's live action movie when it was released and I liked it but I think I had problems following it or something because the Mars sequence should have made a much bigger impression on me than it did. It was watching the Mars sequence in Chapter 2 earlier this year when I realized I needed to own these. But rewatching the movies I do think it had an effect on me, and I'm now tempted to watch the series, which I understand is a sequel to the comics. I feel like the entire story is about Dr. Manhattan. Or at least, he's the driving force. If you think about it, none of the superhero stuff overtly violates physics (ignoring things like, does Owl's ship have enough fuel, etc). So Watchmen feels like 2 stories, Dr. Manhattan, and everything else. There's a sense in which it all ties together in the end, but also a sense in which none of the other Watchmen are really necessary. Still I enjoyed the balance, and thought Rorschach is a pretty cool character, love the voice and the mask.

Overall it's a pretty interesting alternate history take, if you can accept some masked heroes, and then the one "plot miracle" of a God-like character coming into existence. But the interesting thing is that the plot of Watchmen takes place after all of that has happened. So the superheroing is sort of in the past, and now we have aging superheroes dealing with a world on the brink of nuclear war. And it raises many metaphysical questions about fate and destiny. That's one of my favorite parts, exploring how Dr. Manhattan experiences the world. Acting wise the highlights are whoever plays Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach (both versions) and Nixon in the live action, where his role is expanded, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan), and Malin Akerman. Patrick Wilson is ok, I don't really like the Owl character.

I definitely recommend all 3 movies. The only parts I really don't like are the integrated comic-within-a-comic scenes. I know this is only in the Ultimate Cut of the Snyder movie, which also pushes it to kind of a 3 hour slog. In the animated movies you have no choice. But it's not too hard to skip past these if you don't like them. I did watch everything though.

Unfortunately none of the movies are Dolby Vision so that is a missed opportunity, particularly for the recent animated movies. Picture is pretty good for all of them. For the animated movies it looked a little better than what I remembered from my HD streams. The Snyder movie is pretty decent picture-wise but not reference. The site review of 3.5 stars is maybe a bit harsh, I would have thought 4. Sound is very good in all of them, I used headphones for the sound. Some pretty cool sound effects (owl ship, Mars atmosphere, Dr. shenanigans). Lots of specials across 3 discs. The animated movies are just UHDs, no blu-ray, so everything is on the discs (in 1080p). They each have a couple of 10 minute featurettes that are pretty good. For the Snyder movie, everything is on the blu-ray or the special features blu-ray, which are fortunately region free. A couple of hours of stuff. I watched all of them a few weeks ago but they're a pretty good exploration of the movie and how it was made. I recommend all 3 movies and releases. If you've seen one or the other, I recommend watching everything to see the different takes. They're pretty similar though differ somewhat at the end.

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