"At Midnight All The Agents..."
Okay. I swear this will be my last wank-filled Watchmen post. Really. Don't look at me like that. After this, you won't hear a peep out of me until March 6th, whereupon I will return from the midnight showing and probably spend a couple thousand words expounding upon the wonder I have beheld.
Or a couple thousand words expounding on my butthurt, if it happens to suck.
*SPOILER ALERT! TURN BACK NOW! SERIOUSLAH.
Right. So the movie premiered last night in Leicester Square in London. The American critics, for some bizarre reason, are under embargo, so I can't get the opinions of aintitcoolnews.com or cinematical.com, my most trusted of sources. Bugger. I've had to default to British sites, and what I've seen is, dare I say it, pretty damn positive. The most exciting review (to me, at least) is the one from CHUD.com. See, CHUD is a legit geek site, full of writers who actually give a shit about the movies I want to see, and comments crawling with self-proclaimed "important opinions" of basement-dwelling, Cheeto-stained nerds. Needless to say, I approve. When a geek site really likes something like Watchmen, I get the beginnings of excited butterflies in my stomach. Those reviewers are notoriously hard on adaptations, but if they go for it, I'm starting to think I will too.
Emily's Final Watchmen List: Miscellaneous Shit (Or: The Self-Proclaimed "Important Opinions" of a Dorm-Dwelling, Chocolate-Stained Geek
1) Apparently Veidt's plot comes absolutely out of nowhere. Now that's good, I guess, but in the book his final plan seems to make sense when you sit down and think about it for a second. I'll say it one more time. Veidt=/= Dick. NO. He's a bloody nice guy. Or is. Until the whole giant Freudian squid thing.
2) Jackie Earl Haley has "nailed" Rorschach, according to every reviewer I've read so far. *long pause* I wonder if the Devil will come to collect my soul any time soon.
3) Critics seem to be looking at it as an entity in and of itself. Which is fantastic. Comparisons to the graphic novel are, of course, unavoidable, but I feel the movie should be taken or left on its own merits.
4) A totally subjective issue I had with the book appears to have been translated to the screen: the Comedian disappears almost completely after the first act. Now, that's not unexpected, what the being pushed out a window and all, but I would have liked to see him stick around in flashbacks.
5) And now, on a completely different note, I've now reconciled myself with the fact that I'm going to be slashing the hell out of Dan and Rorschach. This doesn't bother me half as much as I thought it would. *fights off plot bunnies*
And now have a picture of the Comedian being a sexy beast.
Don't say I never do anything for you.
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