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.
