Poll: Watchmen? Yay or Nay

[JakePwnsAtLife]

I know this thread has probably appeared here, but I didn't see it on my casual browsing, so I'll make a new one. Did you like the Watchmen? Please state reasons why or why not. I am trying to convince my brother to see this movie, but he wants some opinions that aren't mine, because apparantly I'm not good enough XD

 

[MercenaryCanary]

I didn't even bother reading your actual post. I just say the word "Bitchin'" and saw the awesomeness.

 

[SmoothGlover]

I quite enjoyed it although there were some things that worked better in the graphic novel, although at the same time there were many things that worked better on film. Pretty damn good considering its taken 20 odd years to come out lol.

 

[JakePwnsAtLife]

I didn't even bother reading your actual post. I just say the word "Bitchin'" and saw the awesomeness.

I also say the word "bitchin'" heh, and I liked the movie fairly well obviously, but then again I've read the graphic novels and my brother hasn't, so I'm looking for a slightly less biased opinion than my own. XD

 

[Deleric]

eh. The movie was good, though I'm sure the directors cut is gonna be BITCHIN' EPIC, cause it has all the stuff they took out.

 

[Overlord_Dave]

I think it was the best adaption of the comic possible. Except for the ending

 

[Good morning blues]

It's fantastic. If you want a superhero movie, go see something else, but if you want a tense, compelling morality play, it's the best you've been able to do for a long time.

 

[Littaly]

It was good. Really, for having source material that is considered "unfilmable" it lands really close to the graphic novel. Acting was good too with the exception for a few scenes. However, if your 'lil brother hasn't read the novel he's probably not going to like it, can't imagine how confusing it's gonna seem to people who haven't read it.

The only thing I was really missing was the everyday people at the newspaper stand. They took up a lot of space in the novel and helped giving you the feeling that the world really was on the brink of destruction.

 

[Rascarin]

I thought it was ok. But then I never read the book, and I went to see it with a bunch of Film Studies students who spent the next (i shit you not) THREE HOURS analysing EVERY SINGLE DETAIL. I had no idea people could be so boring about an interesting thing.

 

[Audemas]

The book was much better but the movie was definitely worth watching.

 

[Iampringles]

May.

-be.

 

[GyroCaptain]

I thought it was ok. But then I never read the book, and I went to see it with a bunch of Film Studies students who spent the next (i shit you not) THREE HOURS analysing EVERY SINGLE DETAIL. I had no idea people could be so boring about an interesting thing.

Hell, I'm not even a film studies student and was being "that guy" to the people I went with.

 

[Nerdstar]

yes, its and epic. its faithful to the comic to a T (with the exption to that one plot device that i wont spoile) the acting is great everone dos a phenonal job, the sorty is interlace with rich symbliyeim(exactly like the book)

 

[WolfThomas]

What I said in the exact same thread of the same name.

Yay if only for the fact it could have been much much more worse. Seriously I read that Zach Synder had to battle excutive meddling that would have had cut all the flashbacks, moved the setting to the modern day and had Nite Owl kill Ozimandas and save the world.

As for the film itself, I thought all of the characters were perfect, except Veidt who I had a lot of issues with. The film was very faithful, though it was hyperstylized which kind of missed the point. I didn't like some stuff they cut, like all the smoking and there was things they should have outright removed like Bubastis. The music was somehow entirely appropriate yet completely cliched. I thought the altered ending was a pragmatic move and at least internally consistent with the film.