It’s terrible. I’m just glad the thing ended; for a while there the question seemed touch and go.
I guess the film wins the award for biggest falloff from credits to movie. I loved the credit sequence. The movie itself … to quote a dispassionate observer, the movie is “hollow and disjointed, the actors moving stiffly from one overdetermined tableau to another.” It’s like a well-meaning eccentric decided to tell the story of Watchmen thru parade floats, after which an absolute hack shot and edited together the parade floats using techniques made familiar by low-budget rock videos of the 1980s. The movie helps you appreciate how quiet the comic book is, not to mention understated, deft, elegant. The comic book is pretty much told in medium shot, without sound effects, and at a measured pace. The movie’s approach would be the opposite of all those things.
No big problems with Malin Ackerman or her character. All the cast seemed pretty lame, lightweights chosen for their resemblance to the characters, then stranded amid the dioramas and looped dialogue. The Ozymandias chap was the feeblest all around, but the biggest disappointment was Rorschach’s voice. He sounded like a cartoon dog.
Most regrettable switch from the movie: Rorschach’s business with the handcuffs and file is gone. Instead he just brings an ax down on the child killer’s head.
This is probably the best review of the movie I’ve seen. Cracked me up.
I thought the credits were very nicely done as well. But then….
Finally, a non-gushing, 100% hateful review.
i completely agree with your review of the movie. none of the actors or actresses did anything to make an impact on the screen. they ended up making them completely forgettable by the next day while trying to explain to a friend what you just watched. i really wanted to like the movie as i do with all comic adapted films, but this one was just not cutting it…and all the fans of the books insist that i must not grasp the deep, deconstructive concepts that are put in the movie. well, i actually did get them…but its the filmmakers job to make sure that the general audience gets them. and regardless of what has been posted elsewhere on the internet, a $150+ million dollar movie is mass market i don’t care what the excuses are. the movie just isn’t selling well, and the only people that seem to enjoy it are the one’s that are on a high horse about how great the book is.
Actually, I found the Watchmen comic had a decent story that was overshadowed by a propagandistic stream of repugnant Left-wing radical politics. But I suppose it wouldn't be so bad for people not in on teh joke (or who were in on it, but who likewise personally adhered to an identical anti-US, Left-wing ideology).
The movie does dispose of a lot of the more craptastic Mooreisms, which in my opinion vastly improve teh story. But I can see how Moore's hard-core acolytes and radical groupies might have been livid at Snyder's version. To which I'd suggest, if you want a movie more true to Alan Moore's work, you'll have to find someone who's as much of a Left-wing arse as he is.
Oliver Stone perhaps?
you're a breezy fellow!