Okay, so Rog and I saw "Watchmen" a couple of nights ago

[meridym]

Is it just us, or is this just a really stupid, incoherent movie?

I have no eloquent analysis. I just despised it, from the first shot to the very last.

Thank goodness I didn't pay ten bucks to see it at a theater. I would have walked out or asked for my money back, and that hasn't happened since Barry Lyndon.

Comments

[roman_machine]

My complaint was that Watchmen the book and Watchmen the movie were two different things. They kept the characters and plotline (mostly), but they ruined the point of the entire story by making Dr. Manhattan some kind of God-like boogeyman who was now only allowing things to happen. I guess they thought they had to dumb it down for the masses.

[meridym]

I'm sure the book made a lot more sense. The movie made almost no sense at all. For me it was a case of, "Well, there go two hours of my life I can never get back."

P.S.

[meridym]

Actually, it was more like two and a half hours I can never get back, even worse! : )

[libgirl]

Watchmen stands as the only movie that my sister and I have ever walked out of a theatre over. :( It wasn't the storyline so much as the unmitigated and excessive violence, but, yeah, I think you had to have some familiarity with the comic book for the movie to work very well. :/

[meridym]

You're right about the violence. It was completely ridiculous. After a very short while, I was rolling my eyes at just about everything anyone in the film said or did.

All I could think of was, "This movie actually got a few good reviews??!"

[meridym]

One of my closest friends recommended it to me because she thought it was great. Now I'm trying to figure out what to say to her if she asks me how I liked it. : )

[meridym]

I don't think my friend will be offended if I tell her I just didn't much care for the movie. I was actually kind of surprised that I DIDN'T like it...I mean, I'm an old comics geek from way back. But, nope. I know what you mean about "Mad Men" too--I keep seeing raves about it and I just don't care for it either. Maybe it reminds me of some trauma I had as a child in the 1950s living in all that cigarette smoke and Aqua Net. ; )

[coolbyrne]

Here's the review from a comic girl- it did absolutely nothing for me. Of course (and this will be blasphemous), neither did the book, to be honest. When I worked in the comic shop, a lot of the comic geeks were surprised that I had no love for the series. 12 issues of bloated moral study. Normally I like that sort of human analysis, but 12 issues of it? Just thank your lucky stars they didn't figure out a way to put in Tales of the Black Freighter into the movie

[rojomojo]

Rorschach was one of the few "bright" points, if you consider that he was an irredeemable bad-ass, except he wasn't. And I admit, part way through the movie, I wanted them to do an in depth hitorical thing with Carla Guigino (okay, my spelling sucks and I am on a slow, slow hotel connection so i will not google her and spell it right.) Maybe see her more. And really, a superherroine wearing latex, going into a fire. No, No, No!

Suffice it to say, I was getting bored and wanted visual diversions.

Wow. I have too little time to waste to sit through that. It was worse than exhibition football in the 4th quarter.

rojo

[jaybfox]

This sounds like my review for Twilight. lol. I'm still glad I didn't pay money in a theater to see it. I absolutely despised that film, but wondered if it was just me because I've run into a lot of people who thought it was great. Likewise the Harry Potter books and films. I just can't get all that excited over them and obviously I'm in the minority on that one. lol.

In any case, I liked Watchmen, but I certainly can't criticize anyone for not enjoying it. Sometimes a film just isn't my cup of tea either - it's just personal taste and no big deal. :-)