Watchmen Review (The Outsider One)
I saw the Watchmen movie a week ago and was for the most part unimpressed. But let's take a few steps back and gets some backstory, shall we? Truth be told, I've never read the graphic novel. I've leafed through it a few times in the bookstores and read up on it on wikipedia, but that's basically the extent of my immersion in the universe created by Alan Moore. I just never had all that much interest in reading the book, which was expounded by the fact that V for Vendetta was kind of a dud for me. And then the film itself came out and was even more of a dud. So, when I heard that Zack "slo-mo-but-speed-up" Snyder was directing the new film, I wrote the whole thing off. End of flashback.
Watchmen Review (The Bitter One)
OK, so let me just start by saying, yes, I am a hypocrite. I said I was never going to see this film, I said it was going to suck, I said it was just Hollywood BS. I read the comic, loved it, and caved in. I saw the movie. Was I right? Kind of. Let's discuss. Or rather, I'll tell you my thoughts, and you can read them. Or not. We can still be friends.
So, let's talk about the good first. The movie is very faithful to the source material. Sure, there are a few changes, but for the most part, we get much of what Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons had put together way back in the 80s. We get spot on origin stories. We get a nearly exact plot. We get dialog and compositions straight out of the comics.
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Watchmen Review (The Tolerant One)
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Is it obligatory to begin a Watchmen review with my personal connection to the story? Let's err on the side of safety: All I've ever learned about Watchmen has been within the past year. I'd heard grumblings from the hyped-up film world (negative ones, to be sure) and the very first trailer preceding The Dark Knight. I'll be honest and say I picked up the book a few months before the film was released, but only to educate myself so I wouldn't be lost during the film (but I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who can say the same). I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and really tried to immerse myself in the little details. All the while, however, I was thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out in the movie. The book for me was, above all else, a primer.