They can use the comic for storyboards, but how do you do a symmetrical chapter? How do you represent the smaller panels breaking out into larger onces very rarely at first, and quite often by the end? How do you simulate the hopping around cross-referencing images, details, and clues?


That said, I liked it. It's just not a patch on the original. I give in and 8.5

Watchmen was something to comics that could never be the same to movies.

BUT I CAN'T see many ways of how the movie could had been better, (even if they put ALL the comic step by step and the movie last 7 hours could had been better?) I DO IMAGINE 1000 ways to the movie to be worst.

I give it 9 of 10.

I give it a 7.5 out of 10. Overall, very good, if not great.

For my long-winded ramblings about the movie, see this post:
http://hcrealms.com/forum/showthread...25#post4142925

In short: overdid the stylized violence throughout to the detriment of the ending; most of the actors were awesome except for the obvious exception of Adrian; some of the unfortunate cuts were much-needed character motivation and development for Rorschach, Jon, and especially Laurie; and my biggest problem was the feeling that most of the humanity of the comic was missing, with the near-entire absence of all the non-crimefighting characters, the superhumanization of the crimefighters, and the mentioned bad Adrian and underdeveloped Jon, Laurie, and Rorschach.

I think this is an important point, as the true significance of Watchmen was how it exploited the medium of comics, not how it deconstructed the genre of superheroes and the era of the Cold War.

We've had dozens of quality stories and plots to rival Watchmen, but we've never had another such utilization of the medium to tell that story.

I think they do the violence and sex in the movie to -in some way- make the people FEEL shooked like the readers feel shooked with the comic. The comic was shooking for comic fans in many ways, ways that could not be shooking for expectators of the movie. so "HOW we can make the movie adaptation be shooked for people and made Watchmen something hard to forget in some way??? lets make the scenes of sex and violence REALLY brutal"

If not with that, in what other way the movie could be shooking for not comic fans??? WITHOUT change the story even More???

6/10

It was fine. Great that it was uncompromising, but plain doesn't translate onto film perfectly. As it stands, you may as well just read the book.

It's main purpose IMO, is being a benchmark for what blockbuster or superhero movies can be; explicit, OTT and uncompromising.

But yeah. A lot of fanboyism here imo, or maybe It's just me.

Pointless slo-mo, and some of the acting was ropey.

Soundtrack was rubbish too. The songs are good songs, but they seemed slapped on randomly and totally inappropriately.

What songs in particular? I thought the soundtrack was excellent. At first glance Unforgettable would seem to not fit, but that was clearly done on purpose as a stark contrast between the harmony of the song and the chaos of the battle between The Comedian and Ozy. Times They Are A-Changin' made a great opening montage during the credits, giving the non-fanboys a glimpse into the history of the world Watchmen takes place in and how it changed from the 1940's to the 1970's with the Keene Act. Sound of Silence was fitting for a funeral, and pretty straightforward. Ride of the Valkyries is a tribute to Apocalypse Now, and generally associated with the war in Vietnam. All Along the Watchtower was taken directly from the graphic novel, and appears in the exact same scene as Rorschach and Nite Owl approached Ozy's frozen lair.

CURRENT HCR MEMBER RATING:

WATCHMEN - 8.00 / 10

(15 members rating)

It felt forced. Unforgettable and Dylan was fine, but Hallelujah was a bit of a piss take. AATWT may have worked on page, but you can't hear it in the book. It felt completely out of place on film.

As much as I like 99 Luftballoons, that felt squished in just cause it's about war/conflict. It was blunt and unsubtle.

A solid 8/10 for me

Overall I liked it. Considering the massive task that was making this movie from such a Legendary (and length) comic series, I thought they did a darn good job, and even for someone who didnt know this story (ala my wife) its near 3 hour running time went by pretty quickly. I thought Ozmandius' DARKER costume almost gave him away as the baddie, but overall these guys looked, acted and sounded great (though not sure why the mugging and prison fight scenes needed such extra gore to them). Overall a very cool film, and while its not up there in my all time favorite comic films, it isnt That far behind. Ill go 8.25 here.

great movie and I loved the songs.

9/10

Love this story, love this movie. I actually just watched the director's cut recently and I loved it even more. The acting was strong for the most part but the action and special effects were outstanding. I'll rate it a 9 out of 10.

I never read the story, so even though I had an idea of what it was, I didn't know the details. I also never saw the movie in the theatre, only at home. I did buy the Directors Cut, and it was very long. I found that it seemed to drag a little during certain parts. Maybe I was expecting more action? Rorschach was the best part of the movie IMO ('You got it all wrong, you think I'm stuck in here with you? You're all stuck in here with me !!!!') Some parts were amazing, and others *snoozy*.

All in all a solid movie, but not even close to my favorite comic based movie by far.

7.5/10