Who watches the “Watchmen”? At New York Comic-Con on Saturday afternoon, it was the lucky crowd packed into the Warner Brothers panel as the studio showed off a never-before-seen thirty-second clip from their forthcoming graphic novel-adapted blockbuster.
The scene -- taken verbatim from the source material -- takes place after Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) is captured and incarcerated in prison. Deprived of his iconic mask, his bruised and bandaged face exposed, Rorschach is waiting on line in the mess hall when a hulking inmate starts giving him a hard time. We see Rorschach’s craggy face tighten just before he completely loses it—not that he ever had “it” to begin with. Rorschach nails the guy in the face with a metal food tray and then douses him in burning hot fryer oil. The inmate falls to his knees, crying like a baby while his skin melts away. Read More...
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