Watchmen

[jcojax78]

So went to the midnight showing this evening and I have to say, i was pretty impressed. There were some changes, but I think they were good. I don't think everything would have translated well to the screen. Great casting, awesome fight sequences, great soundtrack. Patrick Wilson's ass, a big blue penis through most of the show....

 

[lil-bk]

loved it when patrick wilson was havin sex, his so hot

 

[neoachilles]

I enjoyed the movie, though a couple of my friends would disagree with me...whatever. I have to say, I was all about Veidt--Matthew Goode was so friggin hot in the movie.

 

[glo-unit]

I really liked, not as good as the book of course but I'll see it again in theaters. Patrick Wilson was hot, and I kinda liked Jackie Earle Haley as kovacs. I also loved the suggestions of Ozymandias being gay.

 

[Ram]

They fucked the plot up.

Love the action though.

 

[Ram]

There was supposed to be a plot?

So all of those skull-crushings and explosions every fifteen minutes weren't the actual main focus of the story? It was some substance inbetween all of that lurid style?

Don't I feel taken.

What I meant was that they didn't stay true to the plot in the graphic novel. They changed it into something totally different. The plot didn't tie up right and it royally fucked up Comedian's character. Bloody senseless, the entire movie.

There was this guy who sat next to me in the theater burst into tears at the end of the movie. I cried in the toilet though.

Moe, read the graphic novel. I know you will love it. It so like deep and stuff. Watchmen tackled a lot of issues -- and oh! -- brilliant character development; the mystery of the Comedian made more sense in the book. And the world didn't end like that.

 

[thevofl]

I loved it. I really am glad there were no vaginicles (the squid vagina). I thought it was lame when I read it in the graphic novel; I know I am in a minority here.

Although I had read the GN, I was engrossed with the film as if I was watching it for the first time.

I will be seeing it again on Saturday with the BF, who hadn't read the GN or even know of the story. I am wondering how he follow (or anyone not familar with the story).

Jeffery Dean Morgan was fucking hot. And I wanted to munch and munch Patrick Wilson's butt.

 

[StlKj]

Have seen it twice now, and I thought it held up well the second time too. I thought most of the performances were spot on, although Matthew Goode felt very weak in comparison to the others. Haley and Morgan were major stand outs, and I could listen to Billy Crudup narrate just about anything.

I didn't mind the liberties that had to be taken to streamline this to film. If it had been made into a mini-series for cable television, then it could have covered everything the comic did--that's just not possible to do in a movie of this length. I am looking forward to the possible half hour of material in a director's cut that Snyder had to nix to get it this short.

I had two female friends who saw it with me, and they both really liked it, not having read the comic book. One said that even today the ending kept resonating with her.

I must confess that I liked this ending far more than I did the original in the comic. When I read it as it first came out, the ending disaster was horrifying because it allowed a certain amount of innocence to be retained/recaptured by the citizens of the world. After everything that has happened in the world since, this ending just made more sense to me.

I wouldn't say, "Oh my god, it was so incredible!" I would say, however, that I found it very satisfying. And these days, that is even more important to me as a film-goer.

 

[r-method]

It wasn't a bad movie. It does make me want to read the graphic novels though. I give it 7.5 out of ten.

I wouldn't of mind seeing a vaginicle. Hahaha. Sounds interesting.

 

[Guy_Gardner]

just saw it tonite...and it was alright....loved the opening sequence and most Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan parts (I want Crudup to play Vision if they put him in the Avengers movie)

- most of the songs used for the movie threw me out of the movie so much..."Broken Hallelujah" and "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" especially
-everybody has super-strength, super endurance and were all kung fu masters all of a sudden
-what was up with Silk and Nite-Owl killing those thugs?
-hated the new ending...then again...the old ending in the comic wasn't much better but the first pages of the last issue really gave you that emotional punch of doom and failure...the new ending was doom and failure too...but it didn't suck me in (and yeah...I said comic...not graphic novel...its a comic...deal with it)

still..it wasn't the worse comic based movie I've ever seen...it could have been a lot worse.....and I didn't vehemately hate it like I did Dark Knight....overrated piece of shit

 

[StlKj]

(and yeah...I said comic...not graphic novel...its a comic...deal with it)

I thought it was sad the film company felt the need to sell it based on its status as a supposed "graphic novel." Considering it was written as a comic book in order to showcase how that format alone could deliver such a rich reading experience, it's a shame that they turned their backs on the term.

 

[Ram]

I don't see how they 'fucked the plot up'. They literally stayed true to like 95% of the plot outside of the cause of the outcome in the ending, which didn't even seem forced at all, it still felt well placed.

It didn't fit right. Comedian's outburst after he'd figured Ozyman's plot was out of character. In the comic/graphic novel, it made sense. No wonder Alan Moore didn't want them to make a movie out of it.

People will nit pick the shit out of the movie anyway to give themselves reasons not to like it.

I like it. But I want it to be prefect .

I love the opening sequence. Gave me the chills.

 

[Ram]

Alan Moore is a hypocrite, he didn't want it made yet he sold the rights and is getting the benefits off it?

He did? I read that he opposed it but allowed Dave (?), the illustrator to work on the film.

I think we all enjoyed Dr. Manhattan's appearances on screen.

The cast -- prefect. Loved Rorschach's voice. Exactly how I imagined it.

Plus the dvd movie is supposed to have more and even have the Black Freighter story in the movie itself, which I am very interested to see how they do that.

I was hoping they would fit in the Black Freighter story but I suppose it was wise of them to remove it since it was originally placed in the graphic novel as a grim parody of the situation and Ozy's attempts to better the world.

 

[Guy_Gardner]

I thought it was sad the film company felt the need to sell it based on its status as a supposed "graphic novel." Considering it was written as a comic book in order to showcase how that format alone could deliver such a rich reading experience, it's a shame that they turned their backs on the term.

I know right...then again, they called 300 "based on a graphic novel"...to me, if I could buy a book issue-by-issue in a comic store...then its a comic book...there are some things to me that are graphic novels...like Maus (which I'm suprised no one has dared to try to adapt that...happy they haven't though)

ps. Nite Owl and Silk fought the thugs in the books as well. This movie was ripped from the pages outside of certain plot points.

I know...they fought the thugs in the comic and I love how it was pretty much panel for panel including the breathless awkward almost kiss....but they did not kill those dudes in the book...and in such a graphic way too...knife to the neck?

and yeah...I could definitely drink to Dr. Manhattan's pretty penis

 

[GL]

i saw it last night at imax with a friend who is just as big a comic book geek as i am. we both thought it was brilliant. i found the movie to be compelling, engrossing and down right cool.

i will admit that there were some liberties taken with the plot but in comparison to other comic-to-film adaptations it was much more closer to the source material than most.

if i were to rate it? 3 and half stars for sure.

 

[glo-unit]

Alan Moore is a hypocrite, he didn't want it made yet he sold the rights and is getting the benefits off it?

DC basically stole the rights for everything he wrote for them years ago, and he gives his portion of the royalties to his collaborator.

 

[winterknight]

Alan Moore is a hypocrite, he didn't want it made yet he sold the rights and is getting the benefits off it?

Alan Moore doesn't own the rights. He gets royalties from the sale of the book, but all creative control over everything he wrote while he was working for DC comics is owned by them, not him. (ISTR there was a clause in his contract that means the rights will revert to him if the book ever goes out of print, but there's fat chance of that happening).

He is not, to the best of my knowledge, making any money from the film. He does everything legally in his power to prevent his works from being filmed; and when this is not possible - like with the stuff he wrote for DC - he disavows all association with the film, has his name removed from the credits, and gives his share of any royalties to the book's illustrator(s).

 

[winterknight]

What I meant that he sold the rights off it, is that he sold them to DC in the first place, but reading further on it he claims they stole them/tricked him, etc. So who knows.

He was tricked out of the rights to V for Vendetta. He was commissioned to write what eventually became Watchmen, so he never owned them in the first place.

 

[had438]

It wuld never be as good as the graphic novel, bu for what it was it was good. Snyder knows how to make a good guy movie, he gets a little confused with the subtle stuff that watchmen is filled with, but all in all a good effort. Will watch again.

The opening credits were enough for me;
http://chud.com/articles/articles/18407/1/THE-AMAZING-WATCHMEN-OPENING-CREDITS-ARE-ONLINE/Page1.html

 

[jcojax78]

There is an animated DVD of the Black Freighter coming out soon, and I am hoping that a special edition DVD of the Watchmen might include it, intermingle the two like in the novel. That'd be sweet!