Warner Premiere released Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic in 2008. The series of a dozen 20-minute installments brings Alan Moore's epic superhero critique to life through the illustrations of Dave Gibbons and the voice of Tom Stechschulte. Viewers who like watching the Watchmen could originally catch the series on iTunes and later find it online or on DVD with all the shiny extras (which currently still ranks at #78 on Amazon's Animated, Superhero, Action & Adventure Movies & TV Shows Bestseller List). The motion comic was so successful for Warner Premiere that over the next two years the media company released seven more, bringing 2D images from properties like Batman, Peanuts, Bat Girl, and Jonah Hex to life. During that time, Warner Premiere also debuted a six-part Terminator Salvation Machinima series and an animated visual album for the four piece, British indie rock group One eskimO. Other major motion picture studios and...
- 11/2/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Whether you loved, hated or were ambivalent about Zack Snyder’s Watchmen (I loved it), you have to give the director credit for trying to be as faithful as possible to the source material. But given the limitations of making a movie from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ rich and complex graphic novel, there was no way he and his screenwriters could include everything.
Originally published as a series of 12 comics, Watchmen contains the pirate story-within-a-story Tales Of The Black Freighter as well as supplemental prose (letters, articles, etc.) penned by Moore that were placed at the end of each issue in lieu of advertisements. One of these was Under The Hood, Hollis Mason’s autobiography chronicling the formation of the Minutemen and his life before, during and after becoming the first Nite Owl. With a running time of 163 minutes, Watchmen would have had to go over the three-hour mark...
Originally published as a series of 12 comics, Watchmen contains the pirate story-within-a-story Tales Of The Black Freighter as well as supplemental prose (letters, articles, etc.) penned by Moore that were placed at the end of each issue in lieu of advertisements. One of these was Under The Hood, Hollis Mason’s autobiography chronicling the formation of the Minutemen and his life before, during and after becoming the first Nite Owl. With a running time of 163 minutes, Watchmen would have had to go over the three-hour mark...
- 3/17/2009
- Fangoria
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I write this review without having seen the major motion picture interpretation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel. In fact, I haven't read the graphic novel since I was in high school - which is quite a ways back. But either way, I can safely say that for old-time fans and newcomers alike, Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic is a surreal experience. No matter how you slice the proverbial knot, the very concept behind Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic is startling to watch when you first set in and remains a bit unreal all the way through.
My somewhat callous approach to "comic books" as an art form was rocked by Watchmen when I simply grabbed it off a library shelf with no recommendation, rhyme or reason behind it. I was one of those who just stumbled across it naturally.
I write this review without having seen the major motion picture interpretation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel. In fact, I haven't read the graphic novel since I was in high school - which is quite a ways back. But either way, I can safely say that for old-time fans and newcomers alike, Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic is a surreal experience. No matter how you slice the proverbial knot, the very concept behind Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic is startling to watch when you first set in and remains a bit unreal all the way through.
My somewhat callous approach to "comic books" as an art form was rocked by Watchmen when I simply grabbed it off a library shelf with no recommendation, rhyme or reason behind it. I was one of those who just stumbled across it naturally.
- 3/9/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
The concept sounded potentially intriguing to me, but, well, it turns out to be quite bizarre. The original Watchmen comic -- all 12 issues -- have been just barely animated by adding a bit of motion to the existing art, overlaying some music, and having a “narrator,” Tom Stechschulte, read the text (which is also onscreen). The transfer from page to screen was overseen the original artist, Dave Gibbons, and it does 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. To be fair, I’m no fan of audiobooks, either, and this is probably the closest a graphic novel could come to audiobook-hood... but there’s a factor here that does not come up with purely aural audiobooks: Stechschulte provides the voices of all the characters,...
- 3/5/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
How do you exploit a finite series and wring every last licensing dollar out of it? DC Comics has come up with a plethora of nifty brand extensions from the long awaited action figures to the nice art book from Titan Books. But, the most interesting and innovative has to be the Watchmen Complete Motion Comic which has effectively animated the dozen issues, added narration and music, and turned it into something new. This has been available for purchase on line, chiefly through iTunes, but today the complete series is being released in a two-disc DVD set.
Those of us with long enough memories have equated it with the cheaply animated Marvel Super Heroes, from Grantray-Lawrence Animation in 1966. Unlike that hodge podge, all the art you see is from Dave Gibbons’ illustrations. He was actively involved with the production and his attention to detail comes through.
One of the biggest...
Those of us with long enough memories have equated it with the cheaply animated Marvel Super Heroes, from Grantray-Lawrence Animation in 1966. Unlike that hodge podge, all the art you see is from Dave Gibbons’ illustrations. He was actively involved with the production and his attention to detail comes through.
One of the biggest...
- 3/4/2009
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Australia
This felt like it would be one of those epic films that came, saw, and conquered. In the past, Baz Luhrman has made some impressive shows, from star-crossed lovers to sexy dancing and pop tunes, but Australia never knew what it wanted to be, and suffered for it. As Jma wrote in his review: "It's too bad that he had to waste the all-encompassing title Australia on such a mixed mess." Skip it on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Where one like Australia fizzled, Beverly Hills Chihuahua shocked even Eric D. Snider: "[it] isn't the braying, garish nightmare that the trailers make it out to be, or that we've come to expect from Disney's live-action-excrement factory." Rent it on DVD and Blu-ray.
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This felt like it would be one of those epic films that came, saw, and conquered. In the past, Baz Luhrman has made some impressive shows, from star-crossed lovers to sexy dancing and pop tunes, but Australia never knew what it wanted to be, and suffered for it. As Jma wrote in his review: "It's too bad that he had to waste the all-encompassing title Australia on such a mixed mess." Skip it on DVD and Blu-ray.
Add to Netflix queue | Buy at Amazon | Read Jeffrey M. Anderson's Review
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Where one like Australia fizzled, Beverly Hills Chihuahua shocked even Eric D. Snider: "[it] isn't the braying, garish nightmare that the trailers make it out to be, or that we've come to expect from Disney's live-action-excrement factory." Rent it on DVD and Blu-ray.
Add to Netflix queue | Buy at Amazon | Read Eric D. Snider's Review
Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective...
- 3/3/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0 Chicago – Reviewing “Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic” is extremely difficult. The source material is absolutely fantastic, one of the best graphic novels in the history of the form and one of the most influential books of any kind from the last few decades. And the “Motion Comic” is incredibly loyal. But it’s hard not to say “just read the book”.
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen” is an absolute masterpiece. Read it as soon as you possibly can and definitely before you see the Zack Snyder movie opening on March 6th. As great as that film will hopefully be, it can never have the cultural impact that the graphic novel did.
Of course, most of the millions who will go and see “Watchmen” won’t have read the book. It’s just a fact of life that even the most critically acclaimed novels can’t compete with...
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen” is an absolute masterpiece. Read it as soon as you possibly can and definitely before you see the Zack Snyder movie opening on March 6th. As great as that film will hopefully be, it can never have the cultural impact that the graphic novel did.
Of course, most of the millions who will go and see “Watchmen” won’t have read the book. It’s just a fact of life that even the most critically acclaimed novels can’t compete with...
- 3/3/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Before you scream that Watchmen has been butchered to get it into theaters, do two things:
1. Actually see the film first before you judge, you mook.
2. Take a look at the side projects coming out in March on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Three days before the movie hits theaters, Warner Premiere’s Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on March 3rd from Warner Home Video.
Overseen by “Watchmen” illustrator Dave Gibbons, Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic contains all 12 chapters of “Watchmen,” the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, adding motion, voice and sound to the book’s strikingly drawn panels, spanning everything from the mysterious demise of the Comedian to the crisscrossed destinies of loosely allied superheroes to their fateful impact on the world. The 12 approximately 30-minute chapters were previously available exclusively as iTunes downloads.
Produced by Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder, Watchmen:...
1. Actually see the film first before you judge, you mook.
2. Take a look at the side projects coming out in March on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Three days before the movie hits theaters, Warner Premiere’s Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on March 3rd from Warner Home Video.
Overseen by “Watchmen” illustrator Dave Gibbons, Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic contains all 12 chapters of “Watchmen,” the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, adding motion, voice and sound to the book’s strikingly drawn panels, spanning everything from the mysterious demise of the Comedian to the crisscrossed destinies of loosely allied superheroes to their fateful impact on the world. The 12 approximately 30-minute chapters were previously available exclusively as iTunes downloads.
Produced by Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder, Watchmen:...
- 2/5/2009
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
With the release of the first chapter of Watchmen in July, things have quieted down for Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. With an initial promise of bi-weekly episodes of Watchmen and Batman: Mad Love back in the summer, that was inevitably altered due to the ongoing legal battle revolving around the film, and the insurmountable success of Dark Knight. Finally, after four months of waiting, a second chapter for Watchmen has been released on such platforms as iTunes, Amazon Video On Demand, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 for a small price. Warner Premiere also recently announced additions to their Motion Comic projects. Premiere has now stated that Mad Love will be attached as a DVD extra for the Dark Knight DVD later this year and that the Watchmen motion comic will be released every two weeks, continuing with chapter 3 on October 20.
Sadly, the hiatus didn't effect the production of the comics,...
Sadly, the hiatus didn't effect the production of the comics,...
- 10/14/2008
- by Matt Raub
- Comicmix.com
Photo: Warner Premiere Motion Comics In an effort to make sure people know what Watchmen is all about before the film is released next March, and to also ensure they get dumber and dumber Warner Premiere Motion Comics is making available installments of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel "Watchmen" in an animated/voice over fashion over on iTunes, easily the most damnable software program ever developed. Gibbons takes credit for the illustrations as they are straight from the book, but Moore won't even allow his name to be attached to an adaptation of his work being read word for word as Tom Stechschulte plays audio book with the novel reading both the male and female roles, a move that already has iTunes commentors and fanboy sites up in arms. Primarily because they must have had nothing else to complain about at the time. Overall it's not too bad,...
- 7/20/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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