so, finally saw the watchmen last night. i cannot speak to whether or not the movie destroyed the book or not because i have not yet read it, but it was enjoyable enough. the thing i’ve noticed is people either love the shit out of the movie or it totally sends them into a frothy, uncontrolled rage. those are the main two critical responses i’ve seen. i fall into neither of those categories. i could take it or leave it: the movie wasn’t great, but it wasn’t horrible either.
some down sides:
- 3+ minute awkward sex scene to fuckin’ “hallelujah” (which is hilarious after the fail!sex scene where night owl can’t get it up).
- really, slow and boring plot
- not enough blue penis
- that fucked up rabbit-eared tiger thing that had no damn explanation
some up sides:
- dr. manhattan is totally fuckin’ naked, and you see his blue peen a lot (but not enough, obviously)
- it was sufficiently violent and gory enough (hooray for zak snyder)
- the characters actually had some character, and were not cardboard-cutout props of themselves
- i liked a lot of the still-photography style shots
the movie actually lived up to expectations, i guess you could say, because i didn’t really have any. i went looking to be entertained, and i was. of course, the damn near three hour run time was long for so little that actually happened. i would have done better with a movie that was nothing but rorschach’s psychotic antics and the comedian blowing shit up left and right. they were the most engaging characters.
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