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Watchmen
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Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Laura Mennell View AllCrew
Zack Snyder (Director), David Hayter (Screenplay), Alex Tse (Screenplay) View All
Release: Mar. 5th, 2009
Runtime: 2 hours, 42 minutes
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Watchmen
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Watchmen
WATCHMEN
d. Zack Snyder, 2009
Well, it's finally here.
After spending twenty years in development hell, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's acclaimed superhero story Watchmen has finally been brought to...
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Even though the film's opening scene was not actually in the book (something I hoped was not a sign of things to come), the bulk of the film followed the book to a tee.

In many ways I don't think Snyder and company really adapted it to the medium of film as they were so busy being reverential to the imagery of the book that they didn't find enough ways to make it of the source material but also let it be its own film.

But, much of the crucial dialogue in the film (occurring at the climax) was highly bastardized, and in some cases re-written altogether to serve the film's purposes.