Is Watchmen the grand epic tale that we've all been hoping for?  Does it hold up to the graphic novel that all of the readers have been praying to see on the screen?

Awesome, I'm glad you enjoyed it so much and I can't wait to go see it myself!

I just got back from it, and was thoroughly amazed by it.

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When Rorschach got obliterated, and his last words were uttered, I was moved. It was just that powerful of a performance by Haley. I think he deserves a nod for best actor for his portrayal of Rorschach, but films released earlier in the year are often snubbed anyway. I also loved how Snider put in the whole "Comedian killing JFK" scene in the opening credits. The soundtrack was also worthy of note.

God that movie was fucking incredible....I gotta let it all sink in before I write more.

While I really was hoping for no spoilers...and especially of that magnitude, I guess it's expected...and at least you noted it was a spoiler.

I have to say, I'm a little disappointed overall.  As a movie it was good, but not great, and as an adaptation it was a little better, but still not great in my opinion.  I was incredibly pleased, however, with Haley's performance.  Not just because he's my favorite character, but I thought he gave easily the best performance of the movie.  His scene with Dr. Manhattan at the very end is, in my opinion, better than the novel's. 

well Im about to go see it right now. hope its all that and a bag of chips.

Also, bears shit in streams and caves too.

Yes yes yes. I never read the comic, but I know a good movie when I see it. Watchmen is good. I just got out of the theatre and I'm ready for round 2.

I never read the novel but I never expected them to actually kill Rorschach he was the most bad ass super hero out of the 5

I have to say, I am a big fan of the novel; but almost all of the Night Owl and Sil Spectre scenes were complete trash in my opnion.

They keep lingering on these two having sex, a scene that is portrayed for less than a page in the novel, for far too long.

Then again, maybe it was the audience.

 I too encountered a similar problem.

The Comedian, Rorschach, and Manhattan were all great.

But the taint of Hollywood rears it's ugly head throughout this movie.

I can see why Moore wanted nothing to do with it, many of the scenes were dumbed down for the silver screen.

I'm not saying it was bad, some of those moments just can't be pulled off with a camera, but for what it's worth it is probably the best a Watchmen movie could have been.

I really like the film and the novel.  I just hope that people don't start going crazy about Rorschach like they did with the joker when dark knight came out, that would kill it for me.

I hope I obtain the same feeling that you had.

Some of the acting could of been a bit better, but as a complete adaption of the graphic novel I was amazed. Fantastic movie that I will view several more times.

I do have to see this now. Oh, and I FUCKING HATE GIGGLY TEENAGERS. TAKE YOUR DICKS OUT AT TWILIGHT AND LEAVE EVERYONE ALONE. Oh man, sorry about that.....back to the topic.

+1, I'm watching it soon.

As someone who has never read the graphic novel, I really really liked the movie. Also, I got to hear how many idiots in my theater giggle every time a blue dick appears

 EvilTwin said:

"I have to say, I'm a little disappointed overall.  As a movie it was good, but not great, and as an adaptation it was a little better, but still not great in my opinion.  I was incredibly pleased, however, with Haley's performance.  Not just because he's my favorite character, but I thought he gave easily the best performance of the movie.  His scene with Dr. Manhattan at the very end is, in my opinion, better than the novel's.  "

Nice review. Just got back from watching it and highly enjoyed it. It pretty much was the graphic novel brought to life. I definitely agree with you on how they portrayed Nixon because his nose was just too big and distracting.

I agree in whole that this is probably the best adaptation of the novel you could get on-screen.  I thought that Patrick Wilson played a perfectly wimp-tacular Nite Owl, and Malin Akerman was good as Silk Spectre...but only good.  I never really felt any on-screen chemistry between them like I found with Patrick Wilson and Kate Winslet in Little Children.  So it's not like the dood CAN'T do on-screen chemistry.

I never read the comic, and I didn't want to read any detail - but I caught the gist of it, which is that you thought it was good. I'll be seeing it tomorrow with a friend, see how it is, I'm quite looking forward to it.

The movie was boring as hell, yea the action seens were cool but the movie just went on and on

"Thunder said:

"The movie was boring as hell, yea the action scenes were cool but the movie just went on and on"

This coming from someone with Fallout 3 as their avatar?  o.O"

This is without a doubt one phenomenal adaptation. It's of course not perfect, were talking about a several hundred page comic.......graphic novel..... being turned into a film that is roughly three hours. (2:45ish.)
Will it appeal to everyone? Of course not. While there have been some phenomenal travesties regarding previous Alan Moore adaptations, it's clear from the first few sequences that the people making this film were trying their damn hardest to make this thing faithful to the source material, and for that alone I tip my hat. 

This movie could have easily been god-awful. The room for error here with something like this is so astronomically immense, the fact that the movie holds most of the interchangeable themes from the source material coherently is astounding. Instead of debates over the story moving away from the source material we have debates (especially from the negative critics.) complaining that the film stays too close to it.

Never saw that before :P

jakob187 said:

The midnight showing was filled with an MTV and MySpace crowd last night, laughing and giggling like stupid idiots every time Dr. Manhattan's glowing blue dong was on-screen.  They were laughing and giggling every time an atrocity to mankind occurred.  When Silk Spectre and Nite Owl started getting it on inside Archie (which confirmed the extreme hotness of Malin Akerman, btw), there were giggles of the "OMG they're having sex" high school persuasion throughout the theatre.

i saw it yesturday the film was great but to things made it less awesome

1 Bad blue penis to boobs ratio

2 My chemical romance cover of a bob dylan song on the credits

appart from that its awesome very well shot

"jakob187 said:

"Thunder said:

"The movie was boring as hell, yea the action scenes were cool but the movie just went on and on"

This coming from someone with Fallout 3 as their avatar?  o.O"

yes which is an amazing game "

Huh.  I thought the My Chemical Romance thing was supposed to play during the apocalypse at the end.  I think I read that in some article when people started freaking out that MCR would be in the Watchmen soundtrack. 

I just got back from seeing Watchmen. And before I say anything about just know that I have never read the book. I went in there as just an average moviegoer like everyone else.

I'm a huge fan of the graphic novel so I went into the theater with some trepidation, but was pleasantly surprised.

The new ending came off pretty well. Nite Owl, Rorscach and The Comedian were awesome. Most of the omissions they did were understandable. Though I was watching it with a friend who'd never read the book and he was kinda WTF when it said Nixon won a third term or when Bubastis showed up outta nowhere.

I didn't like the casting of Ozymandias though. And Dr. Manhattan too bulky.
Most of the fight scenes were way over the top, with people flying everywhere. They should've kept them more grounded in reality like when Rorschach fought the cops or Nite Owl and Silk Spectre fought the thugs in the alley. Everything else seemed like run off from the Charlie's Angels flicks.
It was kinda hard after telling my buddy that none of these guys have real superpowers and then they start punching through concrete and kicking around people with ragdoll physics. He was also wondering what the deal was with Rorschach's mask, so I had to break it down to him after the flick cause it really isn't worth putting in the flick.

All in all, it was a great movie, but I'm still not sure if it's the great movie the Watchmen deserves
My buddy who'd never read Watchmen and isn't a huge fan of superhero movies generally liked it. Especially after I filled in some of the holes cause I can imagine as a first timer there's some things which really aren't explained to them that well.
There were some walkouts during the flick. Bloody philistines.

I'm looking forward to the extended Blu-ray thingie for all they ommited.

As for Rorschach becoming the new Joker? Remember that politically, he is an anticommunist, anti liberal and strong nationalist. He's an extremely right-wing character and not what I expect the kids nowadays to find as heroic views. Then again, the Joker was a homicidal, sociopathic anarchist.
Kids today are stupid as bricks anyway so I expect tons of Rorschach accessories at Hot Topic.
I'm kinda pissed I didn't go as Rorschach last Halloween cause that is ruined for the next few years.

I also really enjoyed it,the crowd i was with at the midnight showing was surprisingly quiet.I loved the soundtrack to the movie.The film just shows that Snyder is easily the best director of this decade.

The film just shows that Snyder is easily the best director of this decade."

"The film just shows that Snyder is easily the best director of this decade."

Saw it tonight and I liked it quite a bit. I did not read the novel, but that is soon to change as I have been meaning to and ordered it off of amazon for $11 shipped.

I agree with the Rorschach comments, Haley was great and the character was great in the movie.

I will say, during the sex scene I thought it was funny/ridiculous that they used "Hallelujah" for the song.

i have not  seen the movie yet but now im looking forward to the cartoon :P

vidiot said:

"I'm sorry, I confess: I laughed my ass off during the sex scene. Not because they were having sex. The musicalaccompaniment of "hallelujah" was too much for me. And with Nite Owl hitting the afterburner on the ship was one of the most elaborate innuendo sequences I've seen in a while."

I was too busy staring at Malin Akerman's sexy ass to focus on the music for long...but it was an *ahem* interesting choice.  lol  The afterburner thing was a funny little Hollywood touch, but at the same time...it was kind of unnecessary.  Whatever, though.

I'm rapidly getting the impression that Watchmen is going to be a cult classic for a long time. Fuck the critics, Watchmen was amazing.

ok ill be honest my initial post in this thread was that this movie was boring as hell which is what i thought at first but after talking with my friends about it i realized that this movie was much more then i originally thought.

Ok ill be honest again i did not read the comic before i went and saw the movie and it bored the hell out of me at first, but last night i was just sitting around talking about it with my friends and realized it was a much better movie then i initially thought. I thought that the action scenes were amazing by far my favorite being the ally scene. However, i did think the sex scenes were a little much, i dont mind one sex scene but they went a little overboard with that. The movie definitely had a deeper meaning then what i initially recognized and it makes me want to read the graphic novel and go see it again.

The movie was definitely an epic movie and deserves more credit then what it is getting.

Man I'm gonna pick up this graphic novel now.

i liked it but was pissed off at laurie saying dr.Manhattans final line in the GN. They should have cut it out completely...Glad alot of the mainstream are enjoying the movie

"Zenexo said:

"i liked it but was pissed off at laurie saying dr.Manhattans final line in the GN. They should have cut it out completely...Glad alot of the mainstream are enjoying the movie"

Actually, it seems most of the mainstream hate the flick.  The fans of the graphic novel are the ones that seem to be loving the shit out of it.

I guess that brings up an interesting argument:  we've seen the backlash of when something isn't translated almost verbatim from the original text, but should there be backlash when it follows so closely to the original text?

Sin City is another primary example, as that movie isn't just literally word-for-word the same...but also frame-for-frame.  Fight Club is another great example, as well as Choke.  All of these movies were spanked by critics, and yet they follow the text so closely.  It almost makes you wonder if there isn't a way to appease folks nowadays.

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"jakob187 said:

"Zenexo said:

"i liked it but was pissed off at laurie saying dr.Manhattans final line in the GN. They should have cut it out completely...Glad alot of the mainstream are enjoying the movie"

Actually, it seems most of the mainstream hate the flick.  The fans of the graphic novel are the ones that seem to be loving the shit out of it.

I guess that brings up an interesting argument:  we've seen the backlash of when something isn't translated almost verbatim from the original text, but should there be backlash when it follows so closely to the original text?

Sin City is another primary example, as that movie isn't just literally word-for-word the same...but also frame-for-frame.  Fight Club is another great example, as well as Choke.  All of these movies were spanked by critics, and yet they follow the text so closely.  It almost makes you wonder if there isn't a way to appease folks nowadays.

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Fight Club and Sin city both got great reviews from what I have seen. Also from what I've seen people who have read the GN are the ones disappointed with the film."

Well, I watched this three hour behemoth earlier today..and I liked it, liked it quite a bit actually.

Rorschach's performance was brilliant, imo. I don't think they could have picked a better actor. I was a little disappointed at first because he looked a little scrawny with his costume off, but he pulled it off in the end especially in the

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prison scenes, which I found to be the best parts of the film. I even, dare I say, enjoyed his role more than that of Heath Ledger's Joker.




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Also, what is up whith all you comic-junkies dissing on all the non-GN readers? Yeah so I haven't read the novel...yet. I hate how one of my friends completely disregarded my opinions upon the movie, simply responding by "Oh you don't know anything, you haven't even read the novel." Give me a break, we saw the damn movie, I understand the jist of it, take that stick out of your ass and quit thinking you're so damn high and mighty. Fuck.

..Anyway, I thought the movie was great. I couldn't make it with my bud's to the theater today, so I just watched it online. I hope to watch it on my HDTV when the DVD version comes out.

8.99/10 for Watchmen

Actually, Jolly...I've been very much on the opposite side of how GN readers have treated the non-GN readers.  The non-GN readers that have come into the store and talked about it, I listened to what they had to say and then expanded on what their experience was by saying "yeah, they left a couple things out, like this and that"...and it got them more interested in reading the GN.  That makes me happy, when people are willing to listen to what you have to say.  So my experiences have mostly been positive.

"Actually, Jolly...I've been very much on the opposite side of how GN readers have treated the non-GN readers.  The non-GN readers that have come into the store and talked about it, I listened to what they had to say and then expanded on what their experience was by saying "yeah, they left a couple things out, like this and that"...and it got them more interested in reading the GN.  That makes me happy, when people are willing to listen to what you have to say.  So my experiences have mostly been positive.

I read a lot of reviews that said the story was too rushed. And that they were trying too hard to cram the entire story into 2 1/2 hours. But this review seems more positive. I may see it.