Watchmen Movie

[SUP-Ronin]

I saw it yesterday. Have never read the comic\book and was really pleased with the movie. I was afraid I wouldn't have a clue about the characters, but I picked it all up, and it did a nice job, IMO. I didn't mind the graphic side of it, and the sex scenes were not too long, besides, shes got a great figure. I didn't really care about the blue wee wee. Not relevant. Overall I really enjoyed the film, but I can totally see why some of the wives didn't care for it. I went with a friend, as my lady wasn't interested.

[megoscott]

I was really happy with it. My wife cringed a lot at the violence, but she still liked it. I reread the book a few months ago and was really looking forward to it. I'm finding myself intensely irritated by a lot of the critics who are hammering Snyder for being so literal to the book. You're a heretic if you stray from the source material, but if you are faithful you are a non-creative hack? Grrr. I'm glad for once to see a superhero movie that truly takes up the challenge of making a comic come to life as it was originaly envisioned, and this was definitely the one to do it with.

I thought the new ending actually made more sense, in that it wraps up the Dr. Manhattan story and folds it into the ending. Not sure they really sold me that the terror of the finale was such to cause world peace to break out, but ok. Nixon was fine, didn't bother me, and I thought it was brave to leave the good Doctor's member out for all to see.

Visually it was incredible, and I liked the use of music a lot.

Rorschach was perfectly cast, what a great actor, and the Comedian was awesome and thoroughly disgusting.

[MegoSteve]

I really enjoyed it, too. I agree with Airdave's comment that fanboys aren't happy unless they can criticize something.

This is about as good a Watchmen film as can be made. The time flew by to the point where I wished there was more movie to watch... I want a super-long director's cut that shows things like the prison therapist's marriage and the original Nite Owl being murdered. It almost felt like they skipped ahead to the end when they could have built a little more tension about the nuclear threat.

Jackie Earle Haley was incredible and deserves at least an Oscar nomination out of it, and Patrick Wilson looked like he walked off the set of a 70s TV show as Dan Dreiberg.

Things I didn't like: Some of the costume and artistic choices left me cold. I am REALLY tired of plastic muscle-shaped armor in superhero movies! Hated Ozymandias's costume change; his, Silhouette's and Laurie Jupiter's costumes just felt period-inauthentic. I also didn't care must for the old-person makeup on the actress that played Sally Jupiter. I wish they'd just hire an older actor instead... it just looked fake.

Those are real nit-picky things, though.

Overall, I'd say Watchmen is easily in the top five best superhero films, possibly top three.

[Wolverine1969]

I liked it. Didn't care for the people around me though who kept talking and texting people on their cell phones.

[boywondermax]

Censy: "bad artwork"

Huh? C'mon brother, that artwork's not bad, man!

[ctc]

>that artwork's not bad, man!

Hmmmm.... I didn't think it was bad either; but not real good. Especially compared to the stuff Gibbons used to do for 2000AD. Kinda flat, and workmanlike. But I guess that was good for the story. I DIDN'T like the colouring though: the old process colours looked muddy and coarse. (A lot of the monochrome panels suffered 'cos there wasn't enough range in the pallette to really make it work.)

>I agree with Airdave's comment that fanboys aren't happy unless they can criticize something.

I think with something like this a lot of longtime fans have a real clear idea of what it SHOULD be like, and there's almost no way the real thing can match that. (Especially considering how much of that view is filtered through the 14 year old eyes the first read the comic.) And like we were discussing in another thread, people are USED to being pandered to nowadays, so there's an impatience with anything that's not immediately gratifying or differs from what we know is the "right" way of doing things. You see this a lot amongst hardcore fans of ANYTHING.

I gotta say, I'm not really hype to see the film, but for the exact opposite reason: it seems to have captured the comic very accurately, and since I've already read the comic I don't need to see the film. (Same reason I wasn't real impressed with the LOTR films.) But that's me.

Don C.

[Gorn Captain]

All in all, people seem to like the film, which IMO is fantastic.
An iconic book turned into a film is always a hard trick to pull off.
And it's no "light material" either.

But I'm sure it'll never be a book office success...
A miracle this got made in the first place, though...

[toys2cool]

I liked it. Didn't care for the people around me though who kept talking and texting people on their cell phones.

I can't stand that crap,the movie is nice and dark and all of the sudden some reject turns on the phone and you have some bright light in the corner of your eye

[goldenryan]

fanboys stop complaining, i thought the movie was great.
i can understand if comic fans are disappointed in comic book movies like daredevil or fantastic four but watchmen is very faithfull to it's characters. i like the end in the movie better too. i thought the original ending was kinda lame.

[bgrimm77]

I have made several post pertaining to this movie on another thread here on the forum so I'm not going to go crazy here...I am a die hard devotee to the source material and I loved the film. And to answer Palitoy's question...I did like how the New Ending worked.

[unataper]

I have been waiting for this movie since it was first discussed. I have all of the comics, the original graphic novel, the buttons and 3 of the comic store promo posters. The movie is what we all wanted to see back then, but like everyone else says- it couldn't be pulled off until technology caught up with the vision. Can you imagine Rorschach's mask back in the 80's? Anyway, I was pleased with the movie and can't wait for the Director's Cut.

[kingdom warrior]

I saw it Today and I absolutely loved it!!!!! as a Longtime Watchman fan I was in Geek heaven can't wait for the Directors cut!