Episode #7 – Watchmen (2009)

Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is one of the most controversial superhero films ever made, and in light of how much we’re enjoying Daimon Lindelof’s Watchmen TV series on HBO, this episode we decided to look back at Snyder’s adaptation. Perry goes in-depth into the ways Snyder misunderstood Moore and Gibbons’ classic, while Derrick offers a more sympathetic view of the film. Where do you stand?

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Watchmen (2009)

Directed by Zack Snyder
Written by David Hayter and Alex Tse
Based on the comic created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Cast

Jackie Earle Haley – Walter Kovacs/Rorschach
Patrick Wilson – Dan Drieberg/Nite-Owl II
Jeffrey Dean Morgan – Edward Blake/The Comedian
Billy Crudup – Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan
Matthew Goode – Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias
Malin Ackerman – Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre II
Carla Gugino – Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre I
Matt Frewer – Edgar Jacobi/Moloch
Stephen McHattie – Hollis Mason/Nite-Owl I