Watchmen Reviews
Most of my friends know someone who knows someone, so naturally they have already seen the new Watchmen movie. Some weeks ago! From what little information I could get out of them, the Watchmen reviews all seemed very positive. I’m dying to see this movie, but I tend to wait until the initial rush. When I don’t, I seem to find myself siting in the first rows, next the loudest smelliest teenager in the place. You should probably read that last sentence in a grumpy old man voice for best effect.
Here is what a few other folks are saying:
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly: “Watchmen isn’t boring, but as a fragmented sci-fi doomsday noir, it remains as detached from the viewer as it is from the zeitgeist.”
Christy Lemire of The Associated Press: “Yes, I’ve read Watchmen… It moved me, too. And still — or, rather, because of that — I found director Snyder’s adaptation hugely disappointing, faithful as it is to the 1986 graphic novel.”
Matt Selman of Time Magazine: “Sitting in that screening room and watching the visual world of the Watchmen movie unfold was one of the most powerful experiences I’ve ever had. Not film experiences. Just EXPERIENCES.”
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March 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
[...] Watchmen Reviews [...]
March 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
*warning, spoilers*
the almost three hours of run time was more than bearable to sit through, and the film kept advancing fairly well and was so gorgeous-looking that i could have sat through another two-and-a-half… (+)
Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode and Billy Crudup were the standout actors of this epic (+),
but i was a little disappointed with the way Dan Dreiberg was handled (in the original story and) in the movie; the film allowed him to retain his original ineffectiveness throughout the story, especially while he fought Veidt, and i felt there should have been enough growth for the character throughout the movie for the audience to feel his crushing, monumental blow toward the end of the story as everything fell apart. i can’t blame Patrick Wilson, it seems he captured the essence of the character, so i blame the writers and producers (-).
the ending of the movie is a lot more satisfying than the book’s original ending, because they stuck to the running plot thread of nuclear holocaust and war in the story instead of Moore’s / Gibbon’s silly, contrived, cyclopean “alien” that sat in the middle of Times Square to take the blame for the woes of humanity and the Russian/ American / Afghan war (+).
i was a bit put off that the movie spelled out many of the subtleties of the story and character development that Moore and Gibbons purposely left ambiguous and unanswered, for the viewer to figure out on our own… (-)
one of the worst examples of this concerned the identity of Laurie’s actual father, and the audience was thoroughly battered with explanations from Dr. Manhattan back to Sally Jupiter (-).
sheesh.
i liked many of the little touches the movie brought out, like the makeup job for the actor that played Richard Nixon (Robert Wisden); it was comical, i kept waiting for his (appliance) nose to grow or fall off every time he was onscreen (+).
the (way the) big “love” scene between Patrick Wilson and Malin Akerman (was filmed) was very distracting from the movement of the story, because this scene was supposed to buildup to inspire Dreiberg to bust Rorschach out of prison and that all-important decision seemed to be made randomly, ridiculously and inconsistently with his character in the book; it was done much better in the book and the motivation was appropriately rendered by the writer and artist than the talents of the production company interpreting the book (-).
4 (+)’s
4 (-)’s
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i liked the movie, despite its problems; i recommend the book,
however.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
just for laughs, i wanted to add that Malin Akerman reminded me of Zena actress Lucy Lawless, Matthew Goode reminded me of David Bowie (one of my all-time favorite musicians) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reminded me of actor J.K. Simmons…
except, you know, younger, slimmer and more muscular.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:47 am
J.K. Simmons? I’m thinking more like Robert Downey Jr.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:02 am
yeah, i could see that. maybe they’ll get Robert Downey, Jr. for the prequel…
lol.