Watchmen, 2009 (dir. Zack Snyder)
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but the Watchmen Director’s Cut is insanely superior to the theatrical cut. Now I read the graphic novel for the first time 8 years ago, and saw Watchmen in theaters 11 times, but the DC is sooooooooo good. I never intend on watching the theatrical cut ever again. If you don’t have it yet, go get the Director’s Cut now.
I was going to make a thing called Planet Rorschach. So you see this planet, and it’s covered with New York City. It’s like a planet of New York City. There’s no suburbs. There’s one giant Empire State Building, like Mount Olympus, in the middle of it. And hovering above the needle is Manhattan, blue, glowing. But the planet’s going, “Hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm.” You can’t tell, it’s this big, deafening, “Hurm.” And as you get close, you go down into the city and the whole world is populated with Rorschachs. And they’re all bumping into each other, going, “Hurm, hurm, no compromise, hurm, hurm, Armageddon.” That’s basically it. So I was like, “Is that the movie you guys want to make?
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