Patrick Wilson Says Zack Snyder's WATCHMEN "Was Ahead of the Curve"
I was completely blown away by Zack Snyder’s Watchmen when I first saw it. I had never seen a comic book movie like that before, and it was so cool and so unique! I actually attended an early premiere of the film, and I wasn’t given a review embargo at the time so I ended up posting a review before any of the other entertainment websites.
When I posted that review, it caused an uproar! Holy crap! We had barely just launched GeekTyrant at the time so we were super young in the movie website space at the time, and we had all of the big veteran sites attacking us because we posted that review. It was pretty wild and nervewracking. They all had to agree to an embargo because they attended official screenings for the press, but since I wasn’t bound by an embargo I was good to go! But, yeah, those websites were not happy with me. Some of the threats I received from these people, some of whom are still around, were insane. You can read the review here if you want.
Anyway, Patrick Wilson, who played Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl II, in the film recently talked about the movie during an interview with CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast to promote Insidious: The Red Door. Wilson said that the movie was awesome and that Zack Snyder was ahead of the curve with it. He said:
“Watchmen is the only movie of mine that I’ve watched front-to-back since a premiere. That movie’s awesome. I wanted to share it with my son — I also probably wanted to fast-forward through the scene with me and Malin [Åkerman] in the ship. [Laugh]. I needed to stay close by.
“No, I wanted to look at it as an older guy, as a filmmaker. I knew that Zack [Snyder] was ahead of the curve, you know? It’s weird to say that audiences weren’t ready for it, but you need a movie like that. You need movies to go so dark that then Avengers can go so light. I do believe in that. But yeah, I love that movie.”
Watchmen is a movie that I find myself revisiting often. It really is an incredible film and it raised the bar for comic book movies and showed what comic book movies could be! What did you think of Watchmen when you first saw it? What do you think of it now?