Week of Watchmen - Send in YOUR Review!

I'm so obsessed about this I'm certain it's going to hurt my schoolwork until the orgasm I have actually seeing it finally allows my genitals to stop trying to do a doc Manhattan impression. Oops sorry missed the disclaimer, but I like my doc Manhattan comment .. can't .. delete.

at the top it says 'dont comment here till you've seen the movie'...aww crap i jus did it too!!

I went to a showing last night. The movie was amazing!!! A few things were out of order or missing, including the changed ending, but overall, the movie was as close to the graphic novel as any movie under 15 hours could be. The opening credits had some amazing imagery and things from "Under The Hood" too, which was a nice touch.

I thought Snyder did a great job.

I'll be seeing it again on opening day!!!

Won tickets to an advanced screening and was able to see it tonight. Having read the novel, I think I need to see it again before I can decide whether I would call it a win or not. The friend I saw it with had not read it and had so many questions afterward he had to borrow my copy of Watchmen to help clarify things. Probably not a good sign for the non-fanboys out there.

my girlfriends just bought 2 tickets for the imax on saturday, perfect girl

I have to say, having waited twenty plus years to see this film finally come to fruition... Pleasantly surprised!

The scant footage that I had seen online or on television barely do this film justice! True, for those of us near and dear to the source material, there was a LOT to digest, and even more to analyze.

The only negative thing that I would be able to say is, not in reference to the already overly stated "squid" alterations to the story, but with the fact that the movie was too short! (I know, right?! LOL)
There was so much of the character nuances that could have been touched on, but with all honesty, you cannot expect a film interpretation of ANY novel to be able to touch on all points in the film.

Overall, this is one of the closest and most faithful adaptations of a novel/graphic novel that I have ever seen!

Mr. Snyder, you have done it again! You should be proud of the work that you have done on this film! I sure as hell am!

God can't send us all to hell for breaking the rules! oh wait my grandmother is on the phone *mert meep moourk* Oh hey guys, hmm, bad news turns out, Hey I hear Satan has his own IMAX screen in the fourth layer, and already has the movie!, I call shotgun in the infernopinto!

So I'm tired, but I just got back from the midnight showing and I'll mention a couple things.

A- The way the music was used was amazing, one of the more interesting choices for the film that really put it over the top for me.

B- The movie is all about the characterizations, the actual plot is secondary as it should be. A huge amount of time is spent showing the histories of all the characters, in fact that's most of the movie which I thought was great.

C- The CGI at times seemed intentionally obvious, as if to show you the brush strokes of the artist, the consistency it provided worked fairly well for me, though I think some people will see this as a big fault, of course this may also just be a side effect of the Imax experience, can't tell, must investigate further.

D- All the actors were great, any weakness the movie had is in some of the editing and filming choices that had nothing to do with acting, such as I would have like to see more bodies, or at least see the explosions going off in more cities as mentioned.

E- The intelligence of the content is polished brightly and comes off wonderfully, I laughed at Snyder's add in of, "Everything will be fine so long as people still think Jon is up there watching us." There were a lot of these moments in the film, none of which seemed forced, rather they slipped seamlessly into the dialogue and situations.

F- I think at the end any disappointment I felt was that the finite stream of wonderful moments had finally come to an end.

Oh right, almost forgot, yes this is one of my top all time movies, 10/10 (10/10 doesn't mean perfect, nothing is perfect, but this is just so good on so many levels it blows it's contemporaries away)

Ill post more tommorow

I just saw it today and i thought it was just kinda ok. The music was too awkward. It seemed too much like: here is the next scene; insert song here, next to this car which is placed, thusly. like a sony movie. the musical choices themselves were also strange. The movie spans many decades and it shouldnt be a hit parade from the 80's.I know the watchmen timeline is a alternate but does that change the decade in which musicians made their music? Present day for the watchmen is '85 so why are they playing "all along the watchtower" when they're cruising to antarctica? Was that a personal choice by the owl? where they jamming to jimi? these questions pop into my head of their own provocation, which takes me out of the movie, which happened alot in this movie, comma, comma, comma, comma, karma chameleon...

i can see how somebody who hadnt read the novel may not totally understand what the hell is going on. but if you are a fan and read the graphic novel, you should be happy with what zack and company brought to the screen. as close to comic as you have ever seen before. i personally thought it was awesome. and i didnt have the slightest problem with goodes performance. i thought all of the actors in it were great and did there part well.

as for the male nudity, well if youd read the novel, again it wouldnt have been a big deal. cuz you would have been expecting it. dr. manhattan definately could of conjured up a loincloth. but that wouldnt be him. he is sooo badass, he no longer gives a f$ck about petty things like clothes!!! and nobody is gonna dare tell him to pants up.

rorschach was the man like was expected

but if you havent already, again i suggest reading the novel beforehand. latro

The Watchmen was garbage. I tried to ignore the bad reviews and thought to truly love this movie you've had to read the graphic novel, which I have and love it. But watching this movie is almost like reading the novel but they left the major points in but took out the small stuff that lead up to the major points making sense. So essentially you're just getting a whole bunch of scenes taken out of context and would make no sense if you haven't read The Watchmen. *Spoiler* Also, the changed ending didn't: kinda iffy. The squid in the novel was supposed to unite the world over the possibility of aliens but to me nuking every major city kinda outdid itself and the ending as whole truly didn't capture Veidt's true purpose. Acting was shotty, except for whoever played Rorshach. Snyder prostituted Alan Moore's masterpiece, if I saw the movie w/o ever reading it I wouldn't want to and its a shame that others may feel the same way who haven't read it.

As a whole, I have mixed feelings about this movie. It was good, but I don't felt it lived up to the hype(seldom things ever do). With that said, all that's left is that Jackie Earle Haley should be polishing a spot on his awards mantle. There. I friggin' said it. Whatcha gonna do about it?!