I watched the "Watchmen"
I got to see "Watchmen" this weekend and I was really impressed. The special effects were great and the casting and soundtrack choices were really good. I've read the graphic novel and have owned a copy for a while now and I was really grateful for how much of the graphic novel they managed to put in that movie, because honestly? I couldn't figure out how in the heck they were going to make that into a movie, especially not a movie that would be coherent.
I do have to say, though, that I don't understand why the media insists on sending people who just DON'T get it to go review a movie. I usually don't pay that much attention to reviews because I don't agree with critics very often, and, admittedly, I was mostly scanning the reviews for pictures of Jeffrey Dean Morgan (we will NOT discuss how much I really want the posters/life-size standees of him as The Comedian lighting his cigar with a flamethrower), but I figured since I was there, I could see what they were saying. The reviews I read were by people who obviously felt, first of all, that comics were completely beneath them and utterly childish, and hadn't gotten any background about what "Watchmen" did for the comic book genre and graphic novels. They especially had no concept about what Alan Moore was working against in regards to the super hero comic book genre when "Watchmen" was published and the most definitely didn't realize that if the director had been less faithful to said graphic novel that the fans of the novel would pretty much hunt him down and parade his head on a pike through the middle of the country. "Watchmen" fans are a rabid and faithful bunch and by now, Hollywood should know not to trifle with geeks, for when our beloved texts are rent to shreds then we will have our revenge. If you make the movie right, you'll have to peel waves of us off your legs for the rest of eternity. "Watchmen" was pefect, but it was good, it was really, really good-like I might even go to see it twice good and that's something I rarely, if ever, do.
It was kind of hard seeing Jeffrey Dean Morgan play such a jerk. I like him better in friendly, sweet roles, or at least as a redeemable guy. It's cool that he wasn't afraid to take the part though because he did an amazing job.