Watchmen

I'm so excited I am almost shaking!

I feel like I'm 10 years old and it's Xmas eve.

God, I hope it lives up to the pre-release stuff, which has been almost uniformly brilliant.
 
Saw it tonight and it was much better than I thought it would be. I did think though that it could easily have been a 15 if they'd have got rid of the nasty bits in the fight in the alley but maybe they did that to cover the dr Manhattan nudity. Great film though and they carried off the prison scenes very well, particularly the bit in the dinner line.
'None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me!'
 
Saw this on Saturday and having not read the book yet I was slightly surprised by some of the rather more outlandish elements. SounRAB like the book is even more off the wall judging by the comments of a friend who came along and had read the book, so I'm looking forward to reading it soon.

Whilst it looked great I thought that the first hour of back story did drag a little; 8 people walked out of cinema during this part who were probably expecting this to be more like The Dark Knight after watching trailers.

The 2nd half of the movie was better paced imho and whilst some of the violence was a little gratuitous
such as Rorschach
 
I saw one review that said 'a warning that for young viewers it contains sexual scenes'
Nothing was mentioned about the violence!
Why is violence more accepted than a act of love?
 
Oh yeah, there was quite a graphic love scene too but I found the bone breaking bits more disturbing. To be honest though it's an 18 for a reason so there shouldn't be any 'young viewers'.
 
Just got back from seeing it - I didn't know anything about the story, I didn't like 'The Dark Knight' particularly - but absolutely loved 'Watchmen'! :cool:

I can understand the reasoning behind the 18 certificate - maybe we're just too used to sex & violence now because this had plenty of both - and that was fine by me, no annoying kiRAB more interested in texting their mates rather than watching the film - always a bonus!

As for JDM - well, what can I say, it was worth going just to see him :o

Another thing I liked was the way various songs were used throughout the film, it kinda put the whole thing in the 70s/80s context and of course the twin towers were there featuring in a number of scenes.

I was very pleasantly surprised and impressed 8/10
 
Oh, I enjoyed it, I just didn't know what the hell was going on! When I finally saw the film's plot in graph form, I realised that it was actually (almost) impossible to understand what I was seeing, but it was still enjoyable. :D



I don't agree that Watchmen is pretentious, 'cos I don't think it's pretending to be something it's not. It's not trying to say anything that people have never heard before. It's just telling an interesting story in a format that wasn't previously assocated with such care and attention.

I think Alan Moore takes his name off because he firmly believes that you can't turn comic books (graphic novels, whatever) into movies and retain the same feel - and I think he's partly right. In my mind, the book is a much more powerful experience than the film, but that doesn't mean I don't think you shouldn't try to turn it into a film.
 
Never read the comic but really enjoyed it.
My sorta movie, I liked how there wasn't a clear good and evil. I think Dr Manhattan at the end when he says by neither condemning or condoning the events, he understanRAB, beautifully summarises the moral dilemma of the story.
 
this film is pure illuminati/globalist/masonic propaganda, designed to make the viewer find the idea of false flag terrorism acceptable. Moore is a self confessed freemason and his work is riddled with illuminati imagary and symbolism.
 
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