Finally.
Not that I need to remind you guys, but Watchmen starts tonight. Midnight showings across the nation. Will it live up to the hype? Can it be as good as it's source material? I don't know about you guys, but I'll find out in just over an hour. For those of you also going tonight, I hope you have a great time! I'll be back after the movie with impressions.
Sgt. Sausagepants
Posted to Comics on 6 March 2009
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Just got back. LOVED IT.
It wasn't perfect. Some shitty acting (Silk Spectre II), and a few strange things went unexplained, so I could imagine people who didn't read the book being a little confused.
But it was way better than I thought it would be. I liked the ending better than the book's.
I thought I'd be annoyed that douchebag Zack Snyder implied Ozy was gay - but then Ozy was really cool and kicked ass, so now I'm happy to have him batting for our team.
Anyway there are flaws but overall I really enjoyed it and I am definitely going again Sunday with the husband (who hasn't read the book, so it'll be interesting to get his take on it).
GO SEE IT PEOPLE. Hope you all enjoy it, or at least enjoy nitpicking what you didn't like about it.
I LOVED this movie. (Never read the graphic novel, but I want to now, though I may never get around to it.) After the end, I think I figured a formula for WB/DC to make good comic book movies (or at least it worked wildy successfully with Dark Knight & this movie): Bad Guy does really really bad shit, good guy gets blamed, and the public is supposed to believe their pretty little lies because the they are too immature to handle the truth (or so it would seem...) I wonder if they will keep using this "formula" and/or if or how long it will keep working before getting stale. Any thoughts?
Well first off, Watchmen has been out forever, and comics and movies have been copying it since.
Anyway, was Ozymandias really a "bad guy"? Was Dr. Manhattan a "good" one?
I liked this better than Dark Knight's take on it. They made Batman into a hero for lying and taking the blame, like it was noble for him to do so. The "noble lie". Which I think is bullshit. What's noble is knowing the truth and being grown up enough to accept it. The public shouldn't be so easily manipulated in the first place. Idiots.
I think Watchmen is much more neutral and ambiguous. It doesn't ask you to look at Ozy as either a "hero" or "villain". And the fact that Rorschach's journal is still out there means that the whole thing could come tumbling down anyway.
I went to see it Monday and loved it.
I hadn't read the book yet, but I bought it the week before in anticipation of reading it after watching the movie.
I didn't think anything about the movie was at all confusing.
Though it was funny that Ozzy had a folder on his computer titled Boys. Wonder what was in there. XD
And such eye candy. The guy playing Ozzy was hot. And Dr. Manhattan. Need I say more?