Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood (Blu-Ray)

Before I ever sat down in a movie theater to the "Watchmen" motion picture I read through the Watchmen Graphic Novel. When I did so I was introduced to the concept of a superhero that does not always do the right things and does not always save the world without so much as a single casualty. I was introduced to men and women who are flawed in many ways, but who had the skills and the charisma to do what they considered the right thing to do for the benefit of the world's people's. Within the pages of Watchmen was a side story that mirrored the main story and it was called "Tales of the Black Freighter." Though I read through the story of a shipwrecked sea captain whose determination to save his loved ones drove him to the brink, I felt that the dvd brought new life to the story. In the graphic novel you are focused on the Watchmen story while this other one slides in and out of focus. With the story being told in one cohesive storyline along with Gerard Butlers emotional narration made me really feel and care for this story and its bitter ending. I would also suggest this dvd for people who are also just simply looking for good emotional story telling. The "Under The Hood" documentry ,if that is what you could call it,is also an interesting piece to watch for fans of the movie or graphic novel and it also makes this alternate timeline that the novel and movie are based around feel real by adding in commercial breaks with referances for people who know their "Watchmen."

Didn't know about the reputation of the comics. Never saw any of the comics. But the movie was a trick. Kind of dark but kept you in suspense right up to the final 15 minutes. Watched it several times. A hoot!

Great

Essentially, Tales of the Black Freighter (along with Under the Hood and the behind the scenes footage) is either an epilogue for those who have just seen the movie or a preview for those who cannot await the Watchmen special edition DVD which will contain all three works (movie, Hood and Tales) all woven together the way they were in the book. As such, the price is a bit steep, which is the only reason I've rated this at four stars instead of five. Tales is beautifully rendered and voiced. Under the Hood is a bit slow, but then it was all text in the book, and in essence provided a break in the pacing of the story, so I'm not sure that this is a mark against it. A note on Blu-Ray: Tales is supposed to feel like a comic book. The Animation harkens back to 1970s/80s fare such as Heavy Metal, and really doesn't benefit from the hyper-sharpened, line-for-line picture of my Blu-Ray copy. I'd actually suggest DVD format for this one if you have a less than 40" TV or a good upscaling DVD player. [...]

I got it in the mail some weeks ago and I am going to enjoy this for a very long time thanks and it came on time and my experience on here was very good

Although I am not a big Watchman fan, this story was great. It made me want to see the main movie on DVD. To be honest, I only bought it because Gerard Butler was the voice of one of the main characters, and I am a big Gerard Butler fan, but this was exciting and graphic and I loved the artwork. It got here really fast too. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Being a fan of Alan Moore and Watchmen, buying the movie blue-ray, "Tales of the Black Freighter" cannot miss in my videoteque. As transposition from a comic inside the novel to animated movie, loses much pathos and meaning, thru, who wich had red the novel, has clear in mind what's the story reflects. The narrating voice of Gerard Butler is pretty amazing but I don't think it gives the right athmosphere to the context. After all is a movie to be watched having in mind the graphic novel so I propose : read the book before watch this. Regarding "Under the Hood" I found it really enjoyable, very nice reconstruction of the ambietation and characters, the whole blue-ray deserve to be buyed just for this.

Animation brings book to life and extras are awesome

Für Freaks und Fans wie mich, die auf die DVD-Veröffentlichung des deutschen Directors-Cut nicht länger warten wollen. Absolut schräge und gute Umsetzung des Comicteils im Comic von Alan Moore. Obwohl dieser bekanntlich die Verfilmung seiner Comics ablehnt, ist Watchmen die absolut geniale Mischung zwischen der Erzählwucht Moores und dem visuellen Geschick Snyders. Letzterer hat sich einen Ast abgebrochen, um dem hohen Anspruch Moores gerecht zu werden, ist von diesem aber, meines Wissens nach, nicht dafür gewürdigt worden. Der ausgegliederte Teil der hier vorliegt ist nur paar-und-zwanzig Minuten lang, aber trotz seiner Misanthropie extrem sehenswert. Achtung! Nur für Freaks!

You got the comics of watchmen ascan ADD on and thats a plus The story is a short story of a captain becoming mad and crazy after Boeing attacked at sea

Lo dicho, un "Must Have" si te gusta este genero. Lo compre en Amazon.co.uk ya que veo todo en V.O., y es lo que esperaba. Buen precio, muy rapidos en el envio, todo bien.

Never bought this

This particular 'episode' as it seems to be in its own way referred of The Watchmen film and its different edits, has in fact, little or nothing to do with the actual film and it's storyline. Despite all the fuss about it being in connected tandem with the original film Watchmen, which is the real title that you want to see in first instance. Despite this, the only mentioning of anything to do with 'Tales of the black freighter' is when during the film The Watchmen, a young man sits on the side of a run down street surrounded by thugs, himself reading a comic by the name of 'Tales of the black freighter.' Within the confines of the young man's comic book we can see scenes from the actual animated film, all of this which the thugs that the young man is surrounded by, mockingly scorn before aspiring towards seeking out the author of the comic and violently murdering him in his own home. That having said being the only relevance this particular animation has towards the film 'The Watchmen,' come to think and nothing else. But however though, the reason I give it full marks is because it is very good to watch first of all; if (obviously) you are very much into anything in the line of the The Watchmen memorabilia (which I for one very much happened to be), secondly; if you also love very violent animation, which this title I have to warn is in its own way (sounds cool enough to me anyways). Not to mention third; if you happened to love anything in the line of cut-throat pirates (all the more cool) and fourth, last but not least; really well done filming unlike many other titles out there (a pretty good violent anime this one, despite it being so short in length for a movie or episode even of anything). So, in lieu of all of what I have mentioned, for these four reasons, full marks from me. Enough said.