Or as some have suggested, just watch this part and save your $10. Yeah, we {I} didn’t like it, what of it.
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— FPM
This is actually Dylan’s song in more than its entirety. The original runs only 3:16, and I noticed here thay had to repeat three of verses to make it fit all the footage.
your hate crusade against watchmen is becoming redundant. I know its your blog and you can write what you want and i can go read somewhere else, but still.. so much hatred for what? at least the filmakers had the BALLS to represent all the characters with their flaws and spend so much money on a film that RESPECTS the true source, and its not a bigmac-like product like many crap hollywood shits these days.
Again, being slavishly faithful to the material. Since when was xeroxing a virtue? And i actually totally felt it was a big-mac product, and it is from Hollywood. It’s just an overblown one where the director got away with hyper fetishized violence, unintentionally funny sex scenes and poor, poor music choices though I would agree the Dylan one is probably the best, though it did make me squirm with discomfort the first time i saw it, as much as i was impressed.
Stone25 is on the money. The attacks on the film have been personally aimed at Snyder and/or the material itself, which is unfortunate. This is a strange, risky and beautiful film that dares to use Hollywood capital to push radical ideas and some seriously fractured psychology into the zeitgeist.
It’s also way more complex and human than The Dark Knight ever was.
But there’s no accounting for taste, is there? Playlist performed so much verbal fellatio on Slumdog I thought they’d gag.
“It’s also way more complex and human than The Dark Knight ever was.”
utterly laughable. Maybe Moore’s version, but not Snyder’s.
@ Que Lindo:
Go re-watch TDK and remember that anyone who’s a Watchmen fanatic’s got a serious bias and a glitch in thinking that all of the marketing that promoted it as “faithful” and “just like the book” is just that – MARKETING. They got you good.
@ The Playlist crew in general:
Someone give me some BP meds now, because that’s going to be my next gripe – Watchmen fans who think it was better than The Dark Knight. That’s it – I’m turning in my geek cred card.
I thought the movie was great. I had read the novel a few months ago, and with the time they had (running time), i thought they did a great job. I even liked the changed ending.
Although i did think that Ackerman was dreadful in most her scenes.
Other then that though, A+
WOW, A+? Hal, I think you’re incredibly blind and you’re probably better off reading another site, no offense.
sorry it's so long…
not a very good movie.
the opening credit sequence is very well done, not OMFG good, but creative and effective at introducing you to the world of the film.
the film looks great, good art direction (how could it not be given the detail in the comics) and shot well…
the acting is, without exception, TERRIBLE – this is caused by:
1) bad actors (the good ones are hampered by 2-6)
2) incompetent directing.
3) failure to realize that dialogue on the page isn't the same as spoken.
4) high school AV club, perfunctory pacing.
5) it seems like EVERY shot of an actor delivering a line is a single…either extreme close up or standard med shot…and they are always alone, no real sense of interaction at all.
6) everyone plays it with a different tone: high camp, sit-com, naturalistic…in the same scene.
the action is jacked up to the usual level of stupidity…the speed ramping is ridiculous, the fights are staged SO poorly and remain unconnected to the story, quickly forgotten 3 seconds later.
the are some very gorey moments – but again they have little impact beyond the initial shock value…
the music choices are criminal…really bad, they picked reasonably iconic songs from the period, but not appropriate for the tone of the scene…and in some cases creating a conflicting jumble of feelings in the audience -> funny song + intimate, emotional scene = WTF?
Ozymandias – is so CLEARLY the villain, from the very first time you see him that everything that follows is empty…there was no attempt, as far as I can see, to conceal this from the audience.
Malin Akerman – painfully bad actor, you find yourself watching her very closely, enthralled by the degree of suck.
Dr. Manhattan – Crudup is good – TERRIBLE VFX, shocking really in this day and age. there are moments of very subtle acting going on in his face, but overall this is a GIANT step backward for Sony.
Rorschach – good, but frankly roles like these are T-Ball for any actor. the VFX of the mask are very good, some tracking and comp issues but overall very good.
The Comedian – good, but still hampered by the above.
Patrick Wilson – good, but was in some other movie and no one told him.
Carla Gugino – good, has the PERFECT look for her role, but again was in a different movie, very campy, didn't get memo.
Matt Frewer – love him, looks SO good in this movie, you really see the age and pain in his face, but he's playing the character that he's played for 20 years (not Max Headroom, the other one).
the changes to the ending really show how cowardly Hollywood is – meat cleaver to head? no problem, large scale destruction, horrible death of thousands that, 9/11 notwithstanding, provide a powerful, meaningful exclamation to the whole story? sorry, no. instead they deliver an amazingly clean and sterile 'event', that, while technically good and pretty, has no impact AT ALL.
I'm glad that there is some, comparatively, explicit sex in the film – but it's staged so awkwardly and the motivations for it (very important points in the comic) are either completely absent or painfully obvious.
Ultimately the film shows a fundamental failure to understand the content of the source material, this is something we've seen countless times before with the adaptations of novels so it's not that surprising, but given the advantages of having the comic as a guide it's very disappointing. That is really the main failure of the film, slavish devotion to the IMAGES in the comic, but ignoring why they are there in the first place.
Love and Rocketes had it right – "Alan Moore Knows the Score" (and if you get that reference you get 5 points).
“I would agree the Dylan one is probably the best, though it did make me squirm with discomfort the first time i saw it, as much as i was impressed”
Agreed…as much as I love Dylan, and think any of his songs in a movie is a plus, I couldn’t help but feel a bit odd when the moment arrived. It was well done, I’ll admit, but for some reason i was totally worrying about others response to it, as if these geeks have no clue who Bob Dylan is.
Thanks Anon for insulting and not respecting other peoples opinions.
I guess however you feel about it MUST be the way everyone must think about it or they are wrong.
Nice to throw down the insult under Anon.