Review: Watching The Watchmen.

[tedcroland]

The film itself was a big disappointment for me. I saw the first 20 minutes at WonderCon last week, and my apprehension washed away with every minute they showed. Snyder had convinced me he really cared about preserving everything about the book, and would go to great lengths to achieve his goal.

Then I saw the film. Spoilers follow, so only read

Comments

[darkdisney]

good review but i'm going to disagree a little. I think that snyder held pretty true to the book and probably two much so. I felt the movie was more like watching the motion comic than a film adaptation.

That sex scene was like watching softcore porn.

i think the problem with going almost panel by panel word for word from comic to movie is that you loose a lot of the subtext you're talking about.

[tedcroland]

I agree to an extent, but I feel like the real failing is that he had a 'pick and choose' attitude toward accuracy. He would have better retained the message if he hadn't changed the ending, or if he hadn't added more violence and sex, or if he hadn't just outright ignored major character beats, or if he hadn't ripped subtlety to the front row and pissed all over the intelligence of the book.

So, really, the problem wasn't how accurate of inaccurate it was, it was that he fucked up on the wrong things.

[darkdisney]

well...it was better than spiderman 3

[tedcroland]

True, but Spider-Man 3 was akin to a sledgehammer to the genitals.

[ext_139893]

I had a nagging feeling throughout the movie that the they chose the wrong girl for the (younger) Silk Spectre; all the other character choices were perfect tho