Watchmen

[SagaLore]

The theatrical version is better than the director's cut.

 

[Gothgar]

I disliked it as well

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Saw it via RedBox yesterday and it was BORING as hell.

Did have some nice effects here and there, but thats it.

 

[DukeN]

I thought it was a great movie but predictably not for the short attention spanners.

 

[KeithTalent]

Loved it. Definitely going to buy it.

KT

 

[SlitheryDee]

I liked it.

Don't think too hard about it. It's not really a very deep or complicated movie at its core. Cool fight scenes and characters that you can never quite pin down as being good or evil make it an interesting experience.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Just got done watching it.

Never read the graphic novel, never really been into comic books.

Did not particularly enjoy it but found merit in the amazing special effects that appeared extremely polished. Great sound-track too.

My issues: too many sotry-lines, too long, and I did not particalularly care about the characters.

Rorschach's charcter was complelling and interesting the rest I just could care less about.

I vivdly remember the end of the cold war and woke up in fear as a child after watching The Day After Tomorrow so I get the whole "period" early 80's nuclear holocaust throughts.

Just blah - and with all the charcters dead - I guess I will never have to see a sequel of this!

 

[Kirby]

Terrible.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I enjoyed it - nothing too awesome, but an above average movie with some seriously flawed "heroes."

Yeah, I thought it was pretty damn good. There were some things that just didn't fit in, like the sex scene in the middle, was a bit overdone (but then what isn't in this movie?). I really loved the opening credits though.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: pontifex
when you speak to people, do they often have a glazed over or perplexed look on their face?
wtf kind of stuff do you watch? just because it's fiction doesn't mean it doesn't have to make sense. and your comment about harry potter is so out of place as well.

Fiction doesn't have to make sense...

How about it wasn't even mildly interesting? I was ready to turn it off with the fight scene of the "comedian"

It does raise some very interesting perspectives/thoughts on the absolute of morality, as well as sort of dress down the hero archetype/character.

No, no it doesnt. It was all really heavy handed. ANyone who's taken any philosophy in college would see what was presented as just superfiical drivel

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Decent movie but I was hoping it would have had more action to it. To me action movies of comic character types needs to have more special effect type of stuff.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Decent movie, but definitely over hyped going into it. Sans hype I think I could have enjoyed it a bit more

 

[jjzelinski]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Loved it. Definitely going to buy it.

KT

Finally got around to seeing it after having watched the animated graphic novel a few months ago. I was worried based on all the flak this movie got so I was pleasantly surprised. I found it very faithful to the original material, and it worked extremely well

 

[tboo]

I just finished this movie & loved it. I liked it so much I think Ill buy it & add it to my collection.

 

[HaxorNubcake]

was enjoyable enough to me. wasn't difficult to follow at all...

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I saw it in a theater and really really liked it. I am waiting on delivery of the Director's Cut on blu ray.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: pontifex
when you speak to people, do they often have a glazed over or perplexed look on their face?
wtf kind of stuff do you watch? just because it's fiction doesn't mean it doesn't have to make sense. and your comment about harry potter is so out of place as well.

Fiction doesn't have to make sense...

How about it wasn't even mildly interesting? I was ready to turn it off with the fight scene of the "comedian"

It does raise some very interesting perspectives/thoughts on the absolute of morality, as well as sort of dress down the hero archetype/character.

No, no it doesnt. It was all really heavy handed. ANyone who's taken any philosophy in college would see what was presented as just superfiical drivel

Can you explain? I never took philosophy at university, so i need some explanation from you.
With Rorschach's (sp?) character he views everything as either black or white - there is no grey. I believe this is what Iateyourmom is talking about with absolutes.

As for my opinion - if anyone cares - i thought the movie was very interesting. I have never enjoyed superhero movies before, but I found this one interesting, though it be slow, long, and 'drivel' as Mo0o stated.
The graphics are incredible. I can understand how the story line may be a little difficult to follow if you are not paying attention to the dialogue or to the characters outfits, etc - the movie is not for the lazy viewer.
I constantly found myself relating to the characters. If I was Rorschach would have I killed that guy, or I know exactly how Mr Manhattan feels in this scene. etc.
My favorite scene: when the atom bomb goes off in the desert. That was some incredible CGI and sound editing. I played it over and over and over again.
This movie is my new favorite (along with Baraka) for showing off Blu-Ray on my 50" Samsung 850. Booya.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: episodic
It switched around timelines

MOST movies don't use our timeline. Most movies take place in an Alternate Reality.

he said nothing about following "our timeline". he said that it switched around timelines, meaning that things didn't happen in a chronological order.

did you actually SEE the movie??

it happened in a perfectly chronological order... except where these plot devices, which are called FLASHBACKS, occurred.

So the movie happened in "perfect chronological order" except for the frequent extended flashback sequences which disturbed that order, i.e. the OPs complaint about the timeline.

conclusion: guyver is not a smart man

One might ask you, did YOU see the movie? Dr. Manhattan's POV jumped back and forth in time (as it did in the graphic novel) to illustrate how he experienced existence, namely, all things at occurring at once with time as a constant.

 

[Aikouka]

*SPOILERS BELOW*

I thought the movie was good overall, but compared to the comic, I think they watered down a few characters, which removed some of their "coolness." I think Dr. Manhattan got hit by this the most as in the comic, he's directly relating everything to that one event (when he was killed in the machine)... in other words, he's speaking about causality, but this isn't very clear in the movie. One of the biggest reasons is because they changed why Dr. Manhattan went back into the machine and that's because they changed the scene before it. They also changed Janey's relationship with him a bit to make it fit.

I also thought that Silk Spectre II was made out to be a bit blonde. This is mostly from her scene in the basement of Nite Owl II's house with Archie and how she lit the basement on fire. The reason... the studio didn't want to show a superhero(ine) smoking. I donno, I just thought to myself, "Why the fuck would you press a button with a big fire on it" as in the comic she was looking for the cigarette lighter .

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop
I constantly found myself relating to the characters. If I was Rorschach would have I killed that guy, or I know exactly how Mr Manhattan feels in this scene. etc.

Rorschach didn't kill that pedophile/murderer directly in the comic though, which annoyed me. The thing about Rorschach is that he isn't really a cold-blooded killer. In the comic, he "pulled a Saw" and cuffed the pedo to his house and then set it on fire. He gave the guy a saw and gave him a choice to free himself or die. You see Rorschach walking away and the guy screaming as the building burns.

 

[TheSlamma]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Yeah, but when Rorschach was about to be captured and he panicked like he did - that was.. weird. Totally showed a different side of his character. He always seemed confident and was in control, but when things didn't quite go according to plan, he freaked. But then he regained himself and fucked-up some prisoners - lol.

He freaked because he walked into an obvious trap, and was pissed at himself for not seing it earlier.

Well, yeah. :laugh:

The point was, he always demonstrated he was a cool, think-on-his-feet character who never got wound up, but that was only a facade - he was that way only because he carefully planned everything he did and considered the all potential ways things could go wrong. But that *one* time he didn't consider the possibility that he was being set up (by the smartest man in the world, of course) and he had a moment of sheer panic before he adapted.

I don't know if that was in the comic, but that was a huge bit of character development.

This is why I enjoyed it. The characters were human and made mistakes and had real emotions. He put up a fight and the cops busted him, I like that. Better then then government never being able to find a stupid batcave.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: episodic
I couldn't even finish half this movie. . .

Glad I rented it at a redbox.

me either... have tried a couple times. It just sucks so bad

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Decent movie, but definitely over hyped going into it. Sans hype I think I could have enjoyed it a bit more

i never heard of it till it came out on dvd. Was it straight to DVD movie?

 

[Electric Amish]

It is a long and intricate movie. I've seen it once and need to watch it again.

It's not a pretty story and deeper than the usual good-guy/bad-guy "comic book" movie.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
i never heard of it till it came out on dvd. Was it straight to DVD movie?

Nah, only the Black Freighter and the book adaptation were straight to DVD/Blu-Ray releases.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
*SPOILERS BELOW*

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop
I constantly found myself relating to the characters. If I was Rorschach would have I killed that guy, or I know exactly how Mr Manhattan feels in this scene. etc.

Rorschach didn't kill that pedophile/murderer directly in the comic though, which annoyed me. The thing about Rorschach is that he isn't really a cold-blooded killer. In the comic, he "pulled a Saw" and cuffed the pedo to his house and then set it on fire. He gave the guy a saw and gave him a choice to free himself or die. You see Rorschach walking away and the guy screaming as the building burns.

That woulda been better. That changes his character in a major way. Would have been even more easily to be related with. I wonder why they did that.