Watching the Watchmen
So diagon and I went to see Watchmen this afternoon.
I thought it was okay but feel slightly 'meh' about it overall. Visually it was very good, but it lacked emotion. Sometimes the transition from sequential art to the screen was excellent - notably the bathroom door swinging when Rorschach goes in to kill the prisoner, so I enjoyed the cinematography. It's very hard to bring the comic book format to the screen in terms of trying to keep the same aesthetic, and at times the film wobbled because of this. It tried very hard to build the plot arcs the way a comicbook does, but it felt a bit too clumsy in places.
The Comedian and Rorschach were excellent. For some reason I really liked The Comedian - partially because when he was in his costume, and with his hair like that and with his build, he reminded me of Till from Rammstein and I was thinking how hot Till would look in that get-up. Er, yes.
I liked Rorschach's mask changing its inkblots. I loved everything with him in prison.
I wished we could have had more of Ozymandias. He was chilly and sexy and I very much appreciated his costume and that floppy blond hair. Also he wore a really hot pair of leather trousers at the start. Nice. Matthew Goode demonstrates perfectly why glacial, upper-class type, handsome, blond and angular British men need to be smashed in the face until they pout and bleed and get their hair ruffled. I LOL'd at his BOYS folder and also at the Narmer Tablet (was it?) in his office.
The rest of the cast were the 'meh' quotient. Silk Spectre II was rubbish. Dr Manhattan was boring. Nite Owl II was... not really there (diagon: "He was Raoul in Phantom, what the hell happened to him??"). Possibly I could have found the entirely gratuituous sex scene more interesting if they hadn't played 'Hallelujah', because since that was The X-Factor winner's song last year then I kept thinking of the Chris Moyles parody about a lamb bhuna.
I'm glad I watched it. More Ozymandias and less dull token female character for the director's cut DVD, please.
I thought it was okay but feel slightly 'meh' about it overall. Visually it was very good, but it lacked emotion. Sometimes the transition from sequential art to the screen was excellent - notably the bathroom door swinging when Rorschach goes in to kill the prisoner, so I enjoyed the cinematography. It's very hard to bring the comic book format to the screen in terms of trying to keep the same aesthetic, and at times the film wobbled because of this. It tried very hard to build the plot arcs the way a comicbook does, but it felt a bit too clumsy in places.
The Comedian and Rorschach were excellent. For some reason I really liked The Comedian - partially because when he was in his costume, and with his hair like that and with his build, he reminded me of Till from Rammstein and I was thinking how hot Till would look in that get-up. Er, yes.
I liked Rorschach's mask changing its inkblots. I loved everything with him in prison.
I wished we could have had more of Ozymandias. He was chilly and sexy and I very much appreciated his costume and that floppy blond hair. Also he wore a really hot pair of leather trousers at the start. Nice. Matthew Goode demonstrates perfectly why glacial, upper-class type, handsome, blond and angular British men need to be smashed in the face until they pout and bleed and get their hair ruffled. I LOL'd at his BOYS folder and also at the Narmer Tablet (was it?) in his office.
The rest of the cast were the 'meh' quotient. Silk Spectre II was rubbish. Dr Manhattan was boring. Nite Owl II was... not really there (diagon: "He was Raoul in Phantom, what the hell happened to him??"). Possibly I could have found the entirely gratuituous sex scene more interesting if they hadn't played 'Hallelujah', because since that was The X-Factor winner's song last year then I kept thinking of the Chris Moyles parody about a lamb bhuna.
I'm glad I watched it. More Ozymandias and less dull token female character for the director's cut DVD, please.