Preachy, corny, but oh em gee -inducing visual effects. Waitasec. Aren’t all movies post-Matrix supposed to have OMG-inducing vfx?! The movie lost all the soul the book had. Still, today’s generation can’t be bothered to thumb through pages …even if it’s a comic book we’re talking about. That said, isn’t Rorschach one little bad ass? (:

While I enjoyed this movie, it has to be said that it contains one of the worst sex scenes of the decade.

WTF is with the soundtrack?? At first I thought it was a nice touch, trying to get the sounds of an era just right, but then they mixed it all up, using music from a different time for the scenes and it didn’t really work out.

I’ll refrain from commenting on everything else that got on my nerves.

With scenes that match exactly the framing and imagery of actual panels from the graphic novel, casting that was obviously done in most cases (but not all*) based on getting the look right more than the characters as a whole, and PERFECT set design, this movie has to be one of the most visually faithful adaptations of all time. And that is in itself very satisfying.

But that is not all. There is some brilliant casting here. I refer chiefly to Jackie Earl Haley, who will turn your bowels to water in or out of his Rorsach mask. It’s worth the price of a movie ticket just to see the people he’s put away over the years locked into a prison with him. That’s some riveting movie-making right there. It’s been over a week since I went to see this and I still have every frame of those scenes before my mind’s eye.

On the dumb side – Worst. Sex Scene. Ever. Even Leonard Cohen couldn’t save it. Funny at the end though.

And speaking of the endings—I think half of why Alan Moore is still in such a snit over this film is that the screenwriters and Snyder came up with a more logical and more elegant and relevant ending to the story, one that actually is developed in the characters and their actions. I was deeply impressed by this.

All in all, I’m going to say this film is really for fans. If you already know and love Watchmen (or if you were a teenager during the Reagan years when it was originally published), this film has a lot to love. If you came to this new or with expectations that it was going to be another big Marvel blockbuster or something, you’re probably still pissed and trying to get your money back.

I dug it.

pretty boring, and what was up with the female leads? offensive.

then again, i haven’t liked any of these ‘superhero’ movies (save the x-men trilogy). guess it’s just not my genre.

my husband didn’t like it either, though…