I thought the movie was good. I thought the acting was solid, the effects were done well, and I thought it stayed true to the comic. The ending in the movie was much more believable than the ending in the comic. My expectations weren’t that high.
Zach Snyder shows that he knows how to turn a graphic novel into a movie. He takes the panels, as he did in 300, and makes them his story boards. I did have a problem with a couple of scenes of Dr. Manhattan (no, not the blue dongle, that was more or less a slightly humorous distraction). There were a couple of scenes where he looked like glowing blue modeling clay. But it was okay since it had to be difficult to make him believable on film. The makeup making the young actors of the Minutemen look older, didn’t bother me either.
My suggestion is don’t go see this movie if you want to see a superhero movie. To me, that’s not what it is. Its just like the comic. More or less a discussion on the failings of human nature and how it affects anyone calling themselves a hero. Watchmen is always hailed as a “deconstruction” of comic book superheroes, but I don’t think anyone who says that even knows what literary deconstruction is, but that’s a discussion for another time.
BTW: Two black people. One died and the other was a psychiatrist. I consider that a wash.
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This post was written by Bedlam on March 15, 2009
