Okay, this marks me as NotAComicBookGeek, I suspect, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. And it's several years since I read Watchmen, and I don't have a copy to hand, so it's not like I have the same kind of relationship with the source text I'm seeing from a lot of folks. I really liked it. I was good with the way they'd changed the ending, although it wasn't perfect - but, yeah, I can see that the book's ending hinged on that whole plotstrand that they culled, so fair enough.

I loved the opening titles (and was kind of gobsmacked that they had Dead Lesbian Cliche within the first three minutes of the movie).

I am, however, sitting here feeling cheated of the Big Blue Penis. In Thailand, they pixilated a little of the gore (in the Rorschach flashback), and that was obvious, but they also did a sort of cloudy ken-doll style neutering on Dr Manhattan that made me raise my eyebrow a tad, but I assumed was just how the movie looked, since it was so much less egregious than the gore-pixilation. Now I discover that the censors were protecting our delicate sensibilities from the sight of Dr Manhattan's Nuclear Weapon. Damn them!

shakes fist

Yeah, wrod to the music being a bit 'eh', incidentally.

...I really hearted Rorschach. In an OMGYouTotalPsycho kinda way.

I really can't see why anyone would rent a DVD without special features vs just streaming it from Netflix (or wherever).

Well, once I figured out that they usually weren't very interesting, I stopped watching the special features on most rentals. I rent movies to watch the movie. And, at present, streaming does not work as well as having the actual DVD.

Now I discover that the censors were protecting our delicate sensibilities from the sight of Dr Manhattan's Nuclear Weapon.

Or, in one case, all four of them.

Dr Manhattan's Nuclear Weapon has MIRVs!

I dunno about Blockbuster, but Netflix usually has the "bonus features" disc available for rent. If I'm particularly interested in stunts, effects, wardrobe or whatever, I'll get that disc along with the movie.

Yes, I'm that person who actually watches the special features. And listens to commentary. Though I finally punked on some of the Return of the King features--overload is overload. I do intend to watch them all someday, though.

Special features usually suck (Supernatural disks, I'm looking at you!), but the Criterion version of Seven Samurai has all my love right now. The features range from the worst ever ("Help" : To make a selection, press Enter. To get to the menu, press Menu) to the best ever ("Commentary").

Special features usually suck (Supernatural disks, I'm looking at you!)

Aw, I enjoy those! I think MNIE may have the best special features of any TV-on-DVD right now, though.

Things from HBO have great commentary.

Roger Ebert has another review of Watchmen, this time after seeing it in IMAX: We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings

Embedded in his blog post is a video of Withnail's rendition of Hamlet's soliloquy from Withnail and I, plus other videos on quantum mechanics.

But the SPN DVDs have gag reels! And sometimes commentary where Jared and Jensen are funny!