Skykid wrote:
Watchmen is still probably the most successful comic book adaptations I've ever seen and one half of Snyder's fluke duo (Dawn of the Dead being the other), but it's not really what I would call a superhero movie, it's too complex.
It's a horrible piece of shit, not only as a film version of a goddamn comic masterpiece, but also as a film itself. Here's some shit I posted about it on some other messageboard:
Watchmen Director's Cut 3/10
Watched it again just to make sure it was really as bad as the Reelapse crew made it out to be. It was. It's basically a b-movie by an almost talent-free music video director that disguises behind glossy visuals and high production values. Some of the things that sucked about it:
- horrible choice of songs for the soundtrack
- horrible acting throughout & horrible casting
- horrible, cheesy dialogue
- horrible fighting scenes (the next time I see a wired up action scene with shitty drum'n bass in the background I swear I'll... probably turn off the film) with lots of dumb posing
- Rorschach's grating voice - haha, how stupid to simply lift this from the Batman film
- shit that due to the director thinking posing and such is cool didn't make any fucking sense at all (in the Comedian's appartment: Rorschach standing on the windowsill in plain sight, cop sees him, starts shooting, Rorschach's suddenly gone - what the fuck happened? he vanished into thin air as soon as the bullets hit him? yeah, FUCK you, Zack.)
- ridiculous overuse of slomo
- shitty ending. Although I loved the Squid in the comic, I wouldn't have minded about a different ending. This one didn't make much sense, though. Besides, it removed all the muckiness of Veidt's mass murder and made it look almost clinically clean. No blood, no dead people with open eyes in grotesque poses. No impact.
- hardcore hero suits that tried to make the characters look super tuff and cool
- painfully uninspired from an aesthetic point of view.
- no sense of impending doom at all, no excitement, just boring scene after boring scene
- dumbing down of the complexities of the comic to an almost insulting level (the group's called Watchmen now, huh)
Every time I read a review that tries to make the reviewer look like an intellectual that "got" the greatness of the film I shake my head in disbelief. What a retard you have to be to think that this is either a good film in itself or an appropriate filming of the comic. There are some good things about it, but all those things were lifted from the comic and simply stuck in there without thinking a second about things like context and medium.
Btw the 3 points were for the gore scenes, Billy Crudup which was pretty good as Dr Manhatten (the Mars scene was ok, too), and the opening montage which almost led me to believe that the film might work when I saw it for the first time. Besides, I like gory b-movies.
Note to Skykid: I don't think you're a retard...
even mean, though?!
