Blimey.
It’s actually good.
No, it is. It is crammed full of so much stuff, and it is so faithful to the original, that noticing how the storytelling feels crowded with little beats and not many big ones just reminds you of the perils of an adaptation that is too accurate.
Faithful particularly in the visuals, the framing, the colour palette, etc. – shades of Jackson’s Lord of the RIngs, where even though the story was changed, the map of Middle Earth was held sacrosanct.
Also, about half the film is in slow motion.
Will the uninitiated get it? Dunno. It’s certainly a curiousity. For those who know, however – yeah. This is Watchmen: The Movie, and it is the least bad Watchmen: The Movie possible.
(My favourite bit was the end where the Watchmen team up again to fight the space squid that is trying to destroy New York.)
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It was much too violent and the ‘heroes’ were mean and nasty and liked hurting people. It is not suitable for the children that comic book movies are aimed at – it makes The Dark Knight look like Peter Rabbit. Also it is depressing. Hollywood, you should be ashamed at yourself for peddling this filth to kids. Bend over and I will smack your bottom (or I would if Aunty Helen hadn’t made smacking bottoms illegal). I shall write to John Key and tell him to ban it.
I thought they were saving the team-up for “Watchmen II – Watch Harder!”
Hang on, is Pearce using the name Beatrice these days? Does he still have the beard?
Pearce, in the words of Jonno, has rejoined the ranks of facial transvestism.
Jono always made me think of Brian Blessed.
My favourite bit was when Doc Manhattan confronts Rorschach in the snow:
“Rorschach, you know I can’t let you do that…alone.”
Gordon’s alive!
Dispatch war rocket ‘Ajax’ to bring back his body!
I’m forever going to combine Doctor Manhattan, Brian Blessed and Jonno in my head. They will be a bright blue bearded chess-playing god-fearing winged barbarian alien. ALWAYS.