Oh no! they photo shopped out Dr. Manhattan's giant blue dong!  

I'll rent the director's cut but I too will wait for the "super mega" release with a replica of...ok, I'm gonna just shut up.

Is it just me, or did they use the same photo of Rorschach and just flipped it around for both covers?

The artwork is just ok. But i Loved the movie definite 2 disk set buy!!!

The book was SOOO good and the movie was really good too (despite what everyone says). Not sure if I'll get it, if only because it's so long i can't see watching it any ole afternoon

This was a s**tty movie

That is some great artwork! Wow, I can't remember the last time a movie had good artwork that wasn't from a poster. Psyched for the director's cut!

Meh. I was completely underwhelmed by this film when I first saw the trailer and the actual movie didn't do much to alleviate that initial impression. Sadly, I think because Marvel has oversaturated the market for close to a decade now, any other superhero film that comes along is just going to look stale at this point....Solid rental for me (to see one more time) and then I'll wash my hands of it, thank you very much.

If I buy the BD, they'll put out the Ultimate Edition at Christmas which will include Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood.  I just know it.

Liked the movie, but it was a bit of a letdown.  I'll probably just rent the DC to see it atleast once.

The cover art for the standard DVD is awful, way too cramped, the 2 disc DVD and Blu-Ray art are much better i think. Will pick up the Blu-Ray, and ill be picking up the Ultimate Cut this fall as well (cant help it, im a fanboy)

Being a big fan of the GN, I was really excited to see the film. I thought the film was highly satisfying, and probably the best GN adaptation since Sin City. Though I know that there will be an "Absolute Edition" coming around the holidays, I'll still pick up the Director's Cut Blu Ray. The cover art is okay, but they should have done it like the Motion Comics and Black Freighter art, with Watchmen pointed upwards on the left side, and the image on the rest of the cover. It would look better to those who have the previous two releases. Maybe when the ultimate version comes out, they'll do that.

Worst 3 hours of my life! This movie sucked!

After seeing the covers, I have only this to say: time for me to photoshop one myself... with one of the posters for example, which were great and had decent storytelling in themselves... not those cramped pieces of s***.

If the DVD's ultimate edition is comprised of 5 discs as the Blu ray is rumored to be, I'll be waiting just a tad more until it's released with some REAL extra features.

Warner never failed to underwhelm me for some reason... great movies (TDK and Watchmen, to name a few) but extremely low features that have ANYTHING to do with the movie. How can they justify that? What's the need of using cameras behind the scenes if you're not going to use them on any format's release, bunch of dopes?

Watchmen critically was definitely a mixed bag. It ended up with a 64% fresh rating at Rottentomatoes, so I wouldn't say it had mostly negative reviews, but it wasn't a critical darling either. The critical response matched the overall moviegoer response.

Commerically, I would agree it was a failure. The film actually cost 150 million to make (that is according to Boxofficemojo and other sources), promoting the film easily cost 20 million (that is probably a conservative number too), it cost in the neighborhood of 170 million to film and promote. The film only made 107 million domestically and 70 million overseas, that is a total of 177 million. That means the film made a profit of 7 million and that is IF the promtion cost wasn't more than 20 million. Studios don't keep the lights running when they spend 170 million and only get a 7 million dollar profit. The DVD/BluRay sales will help to pad the profit margin, but make no mistake, we have seen the last of this kind of film for awhile.  

I agree, there is no rush to buy this now. It is obvious by the weak extras this baby is going to get the ultimate treatment later this year just in time for Christmas. The same thing was done with the Dark Knight disk, though I had to go on and break down and get it, knowing all too well we will get stiffed for an ultimate edition down the road.