Comments on: Liveblogging the Watchmen Movie

By: sojournerstrange

sojournerstrange — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:59:27 +0000

RE the weak password: I haven’t reread Watchmen for a while, so I may be wrong, but I have the impression that Ozymandias meant for them to find that information. Just sayin’.

And I myself was kind of bothered by Rorschach’s origin scene as well (THERE IS NO THIRD H), though for different reasons: hacking the murderer’s head to pieces makes him seem so… uncontrolled. Rorschach may be seriously messed up in the head and prone to extremely violent measures, but his extremely violent measures aren’t done from passion…

By: Church

Church — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:41:49 +0000

Saw it. Liked it.

New ending is a bit tighter in the explanation of what’s frakin’ with Dr. M, so I can see why they went there. OTOH, they introduced a whole energy-scarcity thing that was answered by getting the Dr. M power. Which solved that whole problem. So the Eighties elements feel tacked on. Or vis versa. (Also, Bubastis is somewhat nonsensical in this context.)

INSANELY faithful in parts. Laurie brushing dust off Archie’s window is in the fraking book (I had to go back and look.) Gibbons must have creamed himself.

I give it a four out of a possible five.

By: siamese71

siamese71 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:08:27 +0000

Changed the rape scene, but left all other references to the birth being a product of the rape in the movie.

By: Kemper

Kemper — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:13:09 +0000

I’m still thinking about it, but I almost wish that Snyder had trusted himself more and spent more time coming up with new ways to interpet the story for film rather than just spending so much time trying to recreate the panels from the comic book. The opening credits were one of the best parts, and this showed them really stretching the concept. (And this does make two awesome credit sequences for Snyder with the whole Johnny Cash-meets-zombies Dawn of the Dead opening.)
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And Alan Moore and the purists will wish a painful psyhic squid death upon me for saying this, but I thought the new ending may have made more sense. The idea that Ozy would scapegoat Doc M. with a weapon based on his powers for a global attack plays much better to me than the whole idea of a squid with a cloned psychic brain attack. I do agree that they should have spent more time on showing the aftermath of the attack. It felt too… bloodless somehow.
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@ Lev. The story about how Rorschach got his mask is in chapter 6. It’s part of the story that Kovacs tells the shrink in prison. The whole Kitty Genovese dress story when he worked for a garment maker.

By: cucumberly

cucumberly — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:09:14 +0000

I missed Moore’s dialogue alot. But the movie was really really good. “80′s music moment #5: what’s that song over the closing credits? PIL? Sounds like Johnny Rotten, anyway.” That was Desolation Row by My Chemical Romance. I thought it was a nice transition from then to now. Bob Dylan wrote the opening song and the closing. Very clever. Now I’m looking forward to the DVD so I can get the rest of the story. The comic book in a comic book I think is supposed to be a feature of the DVD.

By: masurix

masurix — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:54:53 +0000

As someone who’s never read the book, it didn’t work for me at all. It felt like 2 hours of character profiles and then some overall plot thrown in at the end. Mind you, the character profiles were fascinating and beautifully done, and each piece was lovingly crafted. There was just nothing that pulled it all together into a cohesive unit for me. It’s like 85% of the movie was, “Here is what you need to know so that the last 15% of the movie will make sense.” It felt almost like a documentary.
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I’m going to read the graphic novels, then watch it again.

By: farsig

farsig — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:58:24 +0000

I like your notes. Too many reviews are trying to get all Pulitzer on us. That or the writer is downing the movie for being

1. Too close to the comic and not visionary enough.
2. Too far from the comic and way to visionary.
3. Not enough like super hero movies.
4. Too much of a super hero movie.

and lots of other stupid excuses to tell people it was crap and don’t see it.

Your notes were what I felt while watching it. Little things that made me go “wow” or “lol” or “well that wasnt the book…but ok”

This had to be the closest adaptation for booktomovie I’ve ever seen. I enjoyed it so much that I went to see it at the midnight release and THEN went to see it at the IMAX in chicago less that 12 hours later. It was tiz’ight both ways, but I rec finding an IMAX nearby and seeing it there.

walkingbomb-Manhattan’s voice seems odd at first, but then think. He is above all concerns humans have. He doesn’t care about or fear anthing in even the smallest amount. So his voice is a reflection of that. A soft, calm, tone that moves like it isn’t a part of the actual conversations, but outside looking in. You get used to it very fast.

By: walkinghbomb

walkinghbomb — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:59:00 +0000

In the previews I’ve seen, (I’ve opted against seeing Watchmen in theatres)Manhattan’s voice really bothered me. I kinda pictured him having a Morgan Freeman-type voice. You know what I mean, the voice God would have.