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May092009
Review: Watchmen
I’ll have to admit, I am one of those people who read the graphic novel both when it came out originally and later in life as an adult. It is one of those stories that changes the way you see things. I always hoped that Hollywood would turn out a movie version of this story and at the same time feared they would as well. There has been plenty of terrible super hero movies, so many in fact I often wonder how the good ones are made at all. I really liked the Watchmen, I would say I liked it as much as last year’s Batman: the Dark Night movie. Even though I was very familiar with the story and the characters I found the movie to be faithful to both the heart and soul of the original story and as well visually, as documented even copied frame-for-frame as much as possible.There is plenty of comparison between last year’s Dark Night and the Watchmen, if you liked Dark Night you are sure to enjoy the Watchmen, though Watchmen is considerably more graphic and dark. I love Zack Snyder movies, 300 was awesome, and the Watchmen is very well done. I’m also no prude but did feel like the high level of violence and sex scenes were out of scope with the story. I’m a purist in the sense that I like all of the pieces of a movie to come together to propel it forward and there were times when I felt like parts of the fight sequences’ violence simply took me out of the story. I was watching it for the blood instead of the storyline and that’s never good. Perhaps that’s a result of it going from comic to screen, I know the comic has violence and sex in it, maybe when it’s on a 30′ x 70′ foot screen it’s harder to miss.
Rorschach is my all-time favorite character from the story, and he could not have been cast better, same with the Comedian. Malin Ackerman who played the Silk Specter II fell short of good, but I have always thought that character was the weakest in the entire story.
When it’s all said and done, you should check this one out, it’s not likely you’ll see another super hero movie like this one ever again.
Posted at 9:06 am on 03/09/09
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Rae
I liked the movie, but felt that the graphic sex was out of place, and added nothing to the movie. There’s a time and place for that sort of intimacy in a movie, and this wasn’t it. I shudder to think of all the people who will bring their children to see this movie.