Movies Ayo! Scott: Should You Watch Watchmen?

Nobody gets to see Dr. Manhattan’s big blue balls for free.

Ayo! Scott is not a fanboy (or a fan of boys, for that matter). Genius does recognize genius, though, which is why 12 single issues of Alan Moore’s 1986-87 comic classic Watchmen sit on Ayo!'s bookshelf, right next to the Hustler mag that pioneered labial close-ups. As a collection, the story of a disbanded team of flawed, masked vigilantes trying to solve the murder of one of their own and prevent nuclear holocaust in an alternate 1985 has gone on to become one of the best-selling books of all time and led to generations of fawning fanboys.

Movies What If…The Wrong Director Had Made Watchmen?

No matter how you feel about this weekend’s big-screen adaptation of Watchmen, there’s no denying that director Zack Snyder gave it his all (click here to read Complex’s recent interview with Snyder). But what would have happened if the epic movie was helmed by a different director?

We decided to imagine how the flick would have turned out if Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), Hype Williams (Belly), Wes Anderson (Rushmore) or M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) had added their “unique” touches to the story. Check out our breakdown (complete with movie posters) for each director below…

Movies Watchmen Director Zack Snyder: The Uncut Interview

Who’s watching the Watchmen? Director Zack Snyder hopes YOU are.

In the February/March 2009 issue of Complex, we brought you a “Shotcaller” interview with Watchmen director Zack Snyder (click here to read the article). Like his adaptation of Alan Moore’s epic graphic novel, our feature was so deep that we had to edit some of the brilliance out just to make it fit on newsstands.

To see the complete version of the film that Snyder wanted to put out, you’ll have to wait for the director’s uncut ultimate blowout version of Watchmen on DVD, but you can get all the extras from our interview right now. Read on for Snyder discussing his relationship with Alan Moore, being spoofed and his awesome upcoming projects…

Movies 7 Awesome Things From 25 Minutes Of ‘Watchmen’

Yesterday, Complex took part in the exclusive first look at 25 minutes of footage from Zack Snyder’s Watchmen film, based on the 1986-1987 comics by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons.

Snyder and Gibbons were on hand to talk about the project, and from the looks of what we saw, the movie is going to be a banger. Check out seven reasons we think the project looks super…