Watchmen (2009)
Actors:
Matt Frewer (actor),
Michael Kopsa (actor),
Garry Chalk (actor),
Michael Eklund (actor),
L. Harvey Gold (actor),
Terence Kelly (actor),
Billy Crudup (actor),
Michael Adamthwaite (actor),
Dave Cote (actor),
Billy Crudup (actor),
Mark Acheson (actor),
Jay Brazeau (actor),
Fulvio Cecere (actor),
Tom McBeath (actor),
Colin Lawrence (actor),
Plot: A group of heroes, forced into retirement a decade before are called together once again to investigate the murder of one of their own. What they discover is an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power in a world not different from our own.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, abuse, acquaintance-rape, afghanistan, airship, alternate-history
Genres:
Action,
Drama,
Mystery,
Sci-Fi,
Taglines: This city is afraid of me. I've seen its true face. Who will save us now? (DVD tagline) Justice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. The existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon. I am used to going out at 3am and doing something stupid. We were supposed to make the world a better place. We're society's only protection. A world at peace. There had to be sacrifice. Who watches the Watchmen?
Quotes:
[after the intruder kicks the door open]::Edward Blake: Just a matter of time, I suppose.
Adrian Veidt: We can do so much more. We can save this world... with the right leadership.
Adrian Veidt: The only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him.
Adrian Veidt: His vision of a united world... well, it was unprecedented. I wanted... *needed* to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world, *today*. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them.
Adrian Veidt: What, in life, does not deserve celebrating?
Edward Blake: God damn I love working on American soil, Dan. Ain't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein.::Dan Dreiberg: How long can we keep this up?::Edward Blake: Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks. Our days are numbered. Till then it's like you always say, we're society's only protection.::Dan Dreiberg: From what?::Edward Blake: You kidding me? From themselves.
Rorschach: Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel.
Laurie Juspeczyk: I am not afraid.
Rorschach: We need to squeeze people.::Dan Dreiberg: [sarcastic] Sure. We'll pick them out of a phone book.::Rorschach: You forgot how we do things, Daniel. You've gotten too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women.::Dan Dreiberg: No, listen, I am through with that! God, who do you think you are, Rorschach? You live off people while insulting them and nobody complains because they think you're a goddamn lunatic!::Dan Dreiberg: [Rorschach approaches Dan, who sighs and turns to him] I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that, man.::Rorschach: Daniel? You are a good friend.::[extends his hand and Dan takes it]
Adrian Veidt: It doesn't take a genius to see that the world has problems.::Edward Blake: No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle.