[Movie] Watchmen

Originally Posted by Megalith

Actually, the movie simply looks terrible. Plastic ass characters on blue fire for two hours. Pass.

I just got back from seeing this, and Megalith's comment pretty much hits the nail on the head. The film starts off very promising, bright colors, good direction, and then degresses over the next two and a half hours into a moddled, grey-tinged mess of a film that I couldn't give a shit about. They exaggerated the action and dumbed down the interesting bits and tried to make everything look gloomy and in the process completely missed the point of all of the original artwork. So, really, it's exactly what everyone who read the comic figured this would probably be. I've heard talk of how they filmed extra bits that are in the comic that aren't in the theatrical version that will make the DVD, but that doesn't matter. The story edit they have works fine, the real problem is the art direction on this, and that's not something you can fix with deleted scenes. A let-down for me, but my friends who haven't read the comic had a kinder opinion.

In before I-already-knew-this-and-that's-why-I-chose-to-not-ever-see-this-movie.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think that either way, the movie will eventually be disappointing. I don't think anyone (besides Sprout) is saying that this is a bad movie. It isn't a bad movie. It's just not as good as it could have been. Being just short of excellent is usually more disappointing than being awful. If something is awful, you can dismiss it outright, easy peasy. That's not what this is. A lot of it is great, but there are moments that make you think "they just utterly fucked that bit up". It's not as good as it could easily have been considering the amount of effort put into it, and that's the ultimate letdown.

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