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The tale of the Watchmen is like a railroad track that is built with the best of aims yet leads to nowhere but perdition. What will our elites do, or what are they above or not above doing to improve the human condition? Who in power can we trust? In the movie, we see Nixon, Kissinger, and other real-life malefactors who did what they did for personal gain. What of Ozymandias? What did he stand to gain? Did he really love humankind or have nothing but detached contempt for it? We see this with Billy Crudup’s Dr. Manhattan as well, although Manhattan suffers from disappointment and heartbroken selfishness, whereas Ozymandias has this sense of birthright to save the world from itself by way of genocide.

I may need to dig out my copy of Watchmen the graphic novel as it has admittedly been a few years since I last perused it, but as a comics fan of 30 years, as someone who holds comics in the highest regard as an artform and recognizes the Moore/Gibbons masterwork as deserving of its status, I will state that Watchmen was more than worth the wait. One could even make a case that it’s a better movie because it took so long to happen, that development hell aided in making it what it is.

And it bears repeating, Watchmen, with some minor and essential tweaking, is reverent of the comic book, and that reverence is another component that makes the movie so engrossing.

There was a time when I didn’t think that a Watchmen film should be made. However, upon seeing the final product, I am left with some questions.

Why isn’t Alan Moore rejoicing?

And why isn’t comics fandom rejoicing along with him?

Even if you’ve never read a comic book in your life, I strongly recommend Watchmen. If it doesn’t make you a fan of the comic book or of comics in general, then you didn’t enjoy the film, and if you didn’t enjoy the film, I have nothing left to say to you. If you think that your unfamiliarity with the characters, the fact that they aren’t icons like Batman and Spider-Man, will hinder your enjoyment, remind yourself of the Hellboy phenomenon. Hellboy was a mid-level character that has never had an ongoing series and was published by a company that was not Marvel or DC. He has since been the subject of a pair of moviehouse blockbusters. Also be mindful of the the popular Men In Black franchise and its origin as an obscure independent comic book. From the looks of it, the heroes/villians (are they one and the same?) of Watchmen are about to join that club.
If you are a comics fan and haven’t seen it yet, leave the nitpicker in you at home, allow yourself to be surprised in the best way possible, and go ahead and be a little smug as the closing credits roll. You deserve it for being so far ahead of the curve.

The Blu-ray Disc for high-definition films is predicated on the rise – but the classic DVD on their dominant position in the market of video disks. In the first half, sales of Blu-ray discs in Germany over the same period last year increased from two to five million units, such as the Association of Audiovisual Media (BVV) announced on Thursday in Hamburg.

The DVD also reached even an increase by two percent to 45.7 million discs. Because Blu-ray discs are more expensive than DVDs, already one-seventh of turnover comes from business with the heavy volume. While the slightly lower average price of 11.30 € led to a drop in DVD sales by three percent to 517 million euros, the Blu-ray sales caused by a doubling of turnover to 82 million euros for a new record of the home entertainment industry. Also including the rapidly growing online business sales increased purchase of the video market by seven percent to 610 million euros. The combined reach of 52 million units sold, an increase of ten percent in the market for this medium.

The online business buying and Leihvideos growing strongly and is after the first half with total sales of 20.7 million € already well above the previous year (€ 6.2 million). The purchase area are 56.5 percent of revenues attributable to the fields and “Video on Demand” and “pay per view” together 43.5 percent.
“Avatar” is usually sold film

Top-selling movie in the first half on DVD and Blu-ray was “Avatar – Departure for Pandora”, in Roland Emmerich’s action-adventure “2012″ and the second part of the Twilight Saga New Moon – Bis (s) for the lunch hour. ” The rental charts of the German video stores, the further loss of five percent to only 46.3 million rental operations had their leads, as after the first quarter of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds on. This is followed by “2012″ and “Avatar,” which in turn is in the Blu-ray Rental Charts forward.