Watchmen: When one of his former colleagues is murdered the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...But who is watching the Watchmen? Tales Of The Black Freighter... A gruesome 25 minute manga-style CG animated pirate story following the lone survivor of an attacked vessel (Gerard Butler) and his desperate journey to safely return home. Based on the comic book within the Watchmen universe it is an example of post-modern Metafiction and a comic-within-a-comic that also serves as a foil for the main plot. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A double feature film collection containing WATCHMEN and its animated companion piece TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER Watchmen300&39;s Zack Snyder directs WATCHMEN bringing Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons&39; critically acclaimed comic book to the big screen courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros Pictures Set in an alternate universe circa 1985 the film&39;s world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country&39;s last remaining vigilantes Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues including Dr Manhattan Night Owl (Patrick Wilson) Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino) and her daughter The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point Tales Of The Black FreighterNamed after the comic book that appeared in the original Watchmen graphic novel as a story-within-a-story TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER finds an inner-city youth reading a story entitled "Marooned" from the eponymous comic book In "Marooned" a young mariner cast adrift at sea attempts to return to his hometown in order to warn the locals of the approaching Black Freighter In order to accomplish this formidable task the desperate seaman must shed his inhibitions using the bodies of his dead shipmates as a raft and killing anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way Arriving back in town under the assumption that the crew of the Black Freighter has already taken over the mariner mistakenly attacks his own wife in the darkness of the couple&39;s home Realizing his tragic mistake he ventures back to the shore to see the Black Freighter approaching and swims out toward the ship to confront the crew
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