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Today's the day. Five minutes to midnight, and all the agents and superhuman crew round up everyone who knows more than they do.
That's right, "Watchmen" hits theaters today. And here's one final, toxic overdose of hype and glory for you before you actually get into the theater to see the final product.
- Super Punch: Watchmen toys and fan art, including the Simpsonized version of the Watchmen shown here.
- Topless Robot has a Watchmen trifecta for even more links.
- What the critics think at Rotten Tomatoes.
- E! Online gives "Watchmen" an A-minus.
- With all the talk about how the movie is overly faithful to the book, you might wonder what wasn't included. Here's a round-up of the parts of the comic that didn't make it to film. And here's the Onion AV Club's take on the same topic.(Spoilers, obviously.)
- Geoff Boucher at the LA Times asks, "Epic film or epic fail?"
- Boucher's profile of "Watchmen" director Zack Snyder.
- Rorschach vs. Wolverine on YouTube.
- Saturday Morning Watchmen -- insane vision of what "Watchmen" would be like as one of those 80s Saturday morning cartoons.
- Hitler finds out about the new "Watchmen" ending.
- The "Lost"-"Watchmen" connection.
- Watchmen merchandising fever. Get your own Rorschach ski mask.
- Perhaps the most penetrating observation from a "Watchmen" review so far, by Charlie Jane Anders: "That's the weird thing about Watchmen, the film. After a couple of decades since the Berlin Wall, and years of superhero movies, a guy wearing an inkblot mask to beat up criminals seems more sane than Mutually Assured Destruction. We understand superheroes and costumed asskickers, but we no longer understand Henry Kissinger. The film struggles with this - and winds up showing how both superhero violence and Robert McNamara-style brinksmanship are insane and pointlessly destructive. They're both expressions of the same ego-driven narcissistic world-saving project."
- "Watchmen" sells out more than 80 theaters for midnight openings. That is geek dedication.
- Finally, all my posts on the Watchmen. "Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
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