Film review: Watchmen (2009)

[my_daroga]

I was not in that group of comic book readers blown away by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen in 1986. In fact, by the time I was reading comics and watching movies critically, the bitter, reflective mode of the book had already permeated the superhero ethos, and its revolutionary aspects had been re-integrated into the texts it rebelled

Comments

[vitaldose]

I can agree with a lot of what you said, although I've seen the movie twice.

As a kid growing up on comic books and cartoons, finding out that the man that raped 300 (I have to admit I was a fan of the comic) was going to do it to Watchmen, was like finding out your puppy had been run over.

I can't say however that I didn't enjoy the movie, because I did. Did I find some parts totally unecissary, yes, the soundtrack drove me nuts and the violence that was completely held back in the book was glorified in all its disgustingness.

The point of the book was lost, you are correct in that and certain chracters were hurt by what you call the "shinyness" of Snyders direction.

All in all wonderful review and a great way to express your view. I still find myself pulled in by my love for the comic, even if the movie was a little more than dissapointing.

I'm still going to buy it.

[meganphntmgrl]

The Zapruder thing, I'm afraid, failed to create much of a reaction in me, as I was already traumatized by the fact that I've already seen a bootleg of a musical in which it was projected onto Neil Patrick Harris's T-shirt. Once you've seen that, it's a bit hard to feel that any other use of it is as mindblowingly inappropriate and irrespectful as making it interactive costume design. But I can definitely see what you meant.

To be honest, as much as I generally liked the film, the violence literally did make me vomit in my mouth, and I just started calmly averting my eyes whenever anyone pissed Rorschach off, because I knew that would not end well.