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I Watched the Watchmen

March 6, 2009 3:33 AM

'm gonna keep this short just because I know a lot of people haven't seen it yet. Although I'm not gonna give any spoilers here, you might not wanna read this if you haven't seen it yet, just cause, you know, yeah.

So here's what I have to say: meh.

I'm not disappointed at all, really. The movie was faithful to and even reverent of the book. It respected the characters and the plot and it took it all seriously. There were some changes--one of which was pretty major--but they didn't hurt the story. They might have improved it, actually.

But still, I'm left feeling decidedly "meh" about the whole thing. I can trace this to a few factors. First, I wasn't overwhelmed by a sense of impending doom like I was when I read the book. The story is about humanity on the very brink of destruction, and I just didn't get that sense from the film. Second, I think that some of the casting decisions were questionable. I'm thinking specifically about Ozymandias here. He looked like a scrawny man-boy, not the world's smartest and most physically fit man. And I also think that, while cuts are very necessary, Ozymandias's backstory shouldn't have been cut nearly as much as it was. I mean, dude, Ozymandias is kind of important.

Finally, I thought there were some really cheesy moments. Sometimes it was a line delivered in the exact wrong way and other times it was just a bad line from the start, but there were enough of those moments that it lessened my enjoyment of the movie slightly.

Overall, I thought this thing was enjoyable, but I'm not in a rush to see it again. But it's definitely worth seeing once, and I would say that I probably enjoyed it less than any of the other people I saw it with. So I hope you enjoy it, too, when you see it. Which you should.



5 Comments


kristin said:

I'll second your meh. I think I got as much enjoyment out of the trailer and the title sequence as the rest of the movie put together. It wasn't bad, and I still might read the book, but only because I feel like the book is probably better (like 99.999% of all books ever made into movies).

March 6, 2009 9:35 PM



Ismael Tapia II said:

The book is so much better. I mean, I think that this is an apt analogy: The Prisoner of Azkaban book is to its movie version as the Watchmen book is to its movie version. In both cases, so much from the book was left out of the movie that the movie barely makes sense on its own. Still, the movies served as a faithful interpretation of the portions of the book they were based on. So, any particular scene in the movie is "good" and faithful, but the overall context is lost, making the whole pretty "meh."

March 7, 2009 1:25 PM



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