Comments on: Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter / Under the Hood

By: Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Due November 3 » DVDs Worth Watching

Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Due November 3 » DVDs Worth Watching — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:32:15 +0000

[...] film will combine the Tales of the Black Freighter animated mini-feature with the expanded movie Watchmen: Director’s Cut, released on DVD two [...]

By: Watchmen: Director’s Cut » Comics Worth Reading

Watchmen: Director’s Cut » Comics Worth Reading — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:03:06 +0000

[...] saying, “nyah, nyah, spend more money”. The UCE will have the movie interwoven with Tales of the Black Freighter, plus the “Under the Hood” fake documentary, all the motion comics, and commentary by [...]

By: ADD

ADD — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:14:32 +0000

I liked the animation quite a bit; it was pretty clearly anime-influenced and captured the gruesome tone of the original story pretty well. But as you suggest, it definitely had a lot to do with my ambivalence for the parent movie. If I have to watch one again, I would definitely choose the cartoon. But no way in hell would I pay 28 dollars for the Black Freighter DVD, that is insane. Especially since, as you say, it’ll probably be on the special edition version of the DVD eventually.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:10:21 +0000

What did you enjoy about Black Freighter? Or is that more of a comment about not enjoying the Watchmen movie? :)

By: ADD

ADD — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:22:28 +0000

I agree with your points about self-congratulatory executives weighing in instead of actual creators, and yeah, 28 bucks is crazy overpriced for the material.

That said, I enjoyed the Tales of the Black Freighter far more than I did the actual movie.

Kudos to Len Wein for actually mentioning Alan Moore by name in his interview, instead of pretending the book sprang forth from the bowels of DC by some corporate act of parthenogenesis.