If you are like us, you have probably been wondering why Zack Synder would choose “My Chemical Romance” to cover Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” to play over the ending of “Watchmen.” We still have no fucking idea what he was thinking, but “My Chemical Romance” frontman Gerard Way recalls the phone conversation in which Synder realized he had been presented with the opportunity to tarnish two classics in one swoop a.k.a agreed to let “My Chemical Romance” cover Bob Dylan for the end credits of “Watchmen.”
“We were on the Project Revolution [Tour], and I got a call on my phone. Somebody had put Zack through to me, and he was immediately excited. And so we started talking [about the song], and he said, ‘Well, what are you thinking?’ because originally he said ‘Let’s just have a 10-minute version that goes through the whole credits.’ And I was originally cool with it,” Way told MTV News. “But since the story [of ‘Watchmen’] takes place in an alternate early ’80s, I wanted to make the song a product of that era. And there’s a lot of gangs in ‘Watchmen,’ there’s a couple bands [mentioned], like Pale Horse, and you never know what those bands sound like, but I’m assuming it sounds like early ’80s punk or late-’70s punk. … And he said, ‘That sounds perfect.’ ”
If you say so. Even Twittering geeks from the usual suspect blogs are saying that’s one of the film’s biggest eye (ear) sores.