Tuesday 17 February 2015



Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood
Dir: Eric Matthies, Daniel DelPurgatorioMike Smith
2009
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Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood represent the two sub-plots left out of Zack Snyder's 2009 version of Alan Moore's classic Watchmen. I thought Snyder did a great job of filming the un-filmable. There is no way he could have left Tales of the Black Freighter in the main story, it just wouldn't have worked. So I'm glad they made a separate animated version. Could you imagine a real life feature length version though? It would be the darkest film ever made if done properly. I liked Under the Hood too, much of it has been touched upon in the new Watchmen comics but a TV series would be awesome. Moore isn't interested though, so I'm a bit torn. Anyway, two great companion pieces but you really should read the book.

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