The Watchmen…The End is…Argh, PUT IT AWAY MAN.
Honestly, I do want to try to keep this blog tech related but, I felt utterly compelled to post this review of my recent viewing of The Watchmen. When a co-worker showed me the preview to this months ago, I was floored. A great story done by the same person who did 300, which is one of my favorite movies in recent years. This was a definite first weekend watch. Well, it is now the first weekend so let’s see how it really was.
The Good
The story line is great. If you have read the graphic novel, you know this. And, towards the middle to the end of this movie it actually shows up and you start to see why this is so great. The acting, while nothing close to Oscar worthy, is capable. There is some decent gore, if you like that, which of course I do. Lastly, the music is good, it is classic rock and some really good selections at that.
The Bad
Similar to Peter Jackson’s King Kong, this movie is too long with too much attention being paid to too many things that could have been left out. Yeah, stay true to the story but, seriously it is a movie. Make it a good movie experience. In a movie with a story this good I should never find myself bored silly, which I did numerous times in this three hour zinger. Also, every five minutes you are presented with a nice shot of the d**k of Dr. Manhatten. I understand clothing is irrelevant to him but, I want to be entertained and I do not want to spend three hours staring at a CGI p***is. I just don’t, it is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.
The music, while good music if the songs are listened to standalone, was completely out of place and seemed to wander in out of nowhere and catch you by surprise in moments that left you going “WTF????”
The Ugly
Three hours staring at a CGI schlong. I don’t want to harp on this but, it was beyond distracting and pretty much ruined the movie.
Conclusion
The Watchmen had so much promise but, left it completely unfufilled and overall I did not enjoy the movie nearly one iota as much as I thought I would. Maybe I was expecting too much but, I won’t even rent it from Netflix when it comes out to be honest, which says a lot because I really try to pull the good out of every movie I watch because I love them so much.
That bad, huh? I’ve heard a very similar review from a friend of mine.
Word. Dr. Manhattan, while decently endowed, should have kept his banana sling on.
Someone a bit insecure about their sexuality? But seriously, yeah the blue schlong was annoying but not movie ruining.
LOL. No, I’m married with a child so I’m cool in that regard. What I meant was I wanted, and expected, more action and story and less of the genitalia. The genitalia themselves weren’t completely 100% movie ruining (I am an adult so I can take it to some extent) but, unnecessary given what should have been in the movie.
Dude, its telling about society that you can watch a guy getting his arms sawed off, two dogs wrestling over the leg bone of a little girl, a kid ripping the cheek out of another kids face, and someone repeatingly hatcheting someone’s head in with a butcher knife…. and not so much comment on it.
However, you complain about a blue penis… Where were you when Malin Akerman’s breasts where hanging out? I thought not.
F**k it man, get over yourself and respect that the other half of society (be it gay men or straight women) want to see a little d**k every once in a while.
Hell, they gave you two women making out… count your blessings!
No, its not telling anything about society. If you want to go down the moral road, there is a whole lot worse than some crap-tacular movie to worry about. Besides, it was billed as an action movie by the director who did 300 - those were to be expected. If someone went into that expecting something different I feel sorry for them because they are clueless.
I didn’t complain about the breasts shot because it was exactly that, 1 scene. Had it been one to three scenes of Dr. Manahatten I wouldn’t have minded any - it was relevant to do it at least once to show the audience how irrelevant the world as we know it is to him. It is the gratuitousness of it all I am talking about. It was unnecessary and I sat in a whole theater of males and females, some of which I am sure are on both halves of society, and no one had any appreciation for it.
With your post, I feel as if you are targeting me as some anti-homosexual male dominant wannabe, which could not be further from the truth. I don’t give a s**t about two women making out any more than I do two dudes. However, when I go to a movie that is billed as an action movie using the Watchmen story done in the same manner as 300 (which it was) I expect that and am disappointed if that is not the case, which to me it was not. Hence my major disappointment.
And to quote Mad Magazine this month: “Dr. Meatahdangl’n can do almost anything but generate a pair of tighty-whitey’s for that big blue wang of his!”
Yeah I saw this too, didn’t pay much attention to the slong ah-shlingon, I just pretended like I was in Ancient Greece looking at a large blue statue; on the other hand they usually had leaves covering the business in Ancient Greece…
I read the comic, and if I hadn’t…I sort of doubt I would have understood what was going on. Alot of those articles they wrote at the end of the chapters in the comic almost did more for character development than the actual plot!
…I was actually kinda disappointed that they didn’t have the big octopi being transported into N.Y.C. at the end of it. That was a real plot twist in the book!
When I first saw it I thought that maybe the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. of A. had settled for M.A.D….