Alan Moore's WATCHMEN is given sound and movement in this video version of the critically acclaimed comic book. Under the supervision of original illustrator Dave Gibbons, the 12-chapter series has voice actors translating the comic's dialogue balloons into speech, while digital zooms, pans, and some animation effects take viewers further inside the story than ever before. First distributed on iTunes, and scheduled for DVD release just days before the 2009 feature film by Zach Snyder, WATCHMEN -
Motion Comics offers a helpful intro to Alan Moore's dystopian world of dark superheroes. Set in a 1980s-era America where masked heroes have their talents banned, the sprawling story begins when someone starts taking down the former heroes one by one--and a mysterious character named Rorschach begins to investigate.
[D]oes indeed look very much like the graphic novel, but I don't see any reason to watch this on a TV when it's a much more pleasurable and rewarding experience to read it for myself...
The two-disc, five-plus-hour DVD and Blu-ray offers fans an animated epic that revisits the visionary artwork and storytelling that made the Watchmen such iconic figures in the comic-book world.
It's long, but it's very engrossing in a good way. Very philosophical and better explained than the other movie. If you liked Watchmen and want to see it in it's glorious long-form, then this movie is for you!
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