You’ve all seen Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen,” that came out in March and you obviously formed your opinion by now (hopefully you saw the obvious forest for the trees there).
But of course producer Joel Silver tried to make his version of “Watchmen” in the ’80s and ’90s and he famously wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Dr. Manhattan (Vin Diesel was apparently eyed for the role at one point as well). As vile as that idea sounds to everyone, Silver still thinks his version of “Watchmen” (with “all due respect” of course) would have been better than the one Snyder brought to the screen in March.
“I love Zack and I love his work, and I think he’s very talented, but the script that we developed, I think was better than the movie they made. I don’t want to say he was a slave to the material because he made changes anyway, but I think it could have been a little more satisfying movie. I think Zack made a great movie, though; I don’t want to minimize what he did. But I think at the end of the day it was more kind of tuned to just the big kind of fanatics of Watchmen as opposed to a broader-based audience who didn’t maybe know the original comic.”
Ah, the dreaded, “too faithful,” swipe again. It’s an oft-regurgitated censure, that is actually on the money, but Snyder must be so sick of hearing it by now. Regardless, the 2-disc, “Watchmen: Director’s Cut” hit DVD and Blu-Ray today and if this cutting-room floor scene is any indication of the excised material from the film, we won’t be watching the 186 minute version of this one anytime soon, if ever. The street punks is this scene, their dialogue and acting is just brutal.