Watchmen
Last weekend I went to the drive in for the first time ever.
It was very enjoyable. There was a mob of 40+ year old car club members of some sort who all brought their masterfully maintained hot rods of some sort. I'd like to see some douche bag with a spoiler shoot flames out of HIS Commodore while revving on the spot (or narrowly avoiding a reverse crash).
Watchmen was the film, and can I preface this by saying that I am not one of the many hyper critical original-work fanboys. In fact, I made an intentional effort to find out as little as possible about ti and enjoy it with no expectations, which is teh way films should be enjoyed.
Overall... too long, I thought. With many excessive moments of clearly gratuitous and unnecessary violence. And what felt like character inconsistencies and plot holes.
There were, however, some truly truly marvellous 'cinematographic' moments, for lack of a better word. The intro was just awesome, although I appreciated the comical 1930s super hero costumes because I owned a couple fo reprinted 'golden age' comics that portrayed them. The 'Good luck Mr Gorsky' line (look it up if you don't know what that means) was brilliant. And so were a lot of other parts. Many breathtaking visuals.
The lowpoint I felt was around halfway through the film during the prison riot scene. Where up until now you there was dark as hell, visceral, teeth grindingly sinister violence, it suddenyl turned into bat man grade, comic book fun beat-em-up violence. The whole film just took a nosedive and it was as if a different director had filled in for a day. Oh yeah, and the corny bonking scene went hadn in hand with that.
It kind of got better after that but I don't think it ever recovered
As I'm sure everyone else who has seen it has said by now, it's unlike any other superhero film made so far. I wish I could maek my voice sound like Rorschach's.
It was very enjoyable. There was a mob of 40+ year old car club members of some sort who all brought their masterfully maintained hot rods of some sort. I'd like to see some douche bag with a spoiler shoot flames out of HIS Commodore while revving on the spot (or narrowly avoiding a reverse crash).
Watchmen was the film, and can I preface this by saying that I am not one of the many hyper critical original-work fanboys. In fact, I made an intentional effort to find out as little as possible about ti and enjoy it with no expectations, which is teh way films should be enjoyed.
Overall... too long, I thought. With many excessive moments of clearly gratuitous and unnecessary violence. And what felt like character inconsistencies and plot holes.
There were, however, some truly truly marvellous 'cinematographic' moments, for lack of a better word. The intro was just awesome, although I appreciated the comical 1930s super hero costumes because I owned a couple fo reprinted 'golden age' comics that portrayed them. The 'Good luck Mr Gorsky' line (look it up if you don't know what that means) was brilliant. And so were a lot of other parts. Many breathtaking visuals.
The lowpoint I felt was around halfway through the film during the prison riot scene. Where up until now you there was dark as hell, visceral, teeth grindingly sinister violence, it suddenyl turned into bat man grade, comic book fun beat-em-up violence. The whole film just took a nosedive and it was as if a different director had filled in for a day. Oh yeah, and the corny bonking scene went hadn in hand with that.
It kind of got better after that but I don't think it ever recovered
As I'm sure everyone else who has seen it has said by now, it's unlike any other superhero film made so far. I wish I could maek my voice sound like Rorschach's.