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Ummm...
Holy ****. It was actually good. I mean, REALLY good. Not as good as the book, not by a long shot, but GOOD. Like three to three and a half out of four stars good. There was lots of little changes (and a few big ones), some of them work, some of them don't, but the overall theme and plot structure are the same. Including the ending, thematically speaking at least. I am really, really surprised. |
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Roommate (a big comic books fan) went to see it. He went in with a strong knowledge of the book and feeling that the movie was going to be crap, because it deviated from the book too much.
He came out saying it was really rather decent. He also advised against me going to see it, because I would find it crap, given my complete lack of interest in superhero movies. I am deferring to his wisdom on this one. |
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Saw it with my daughter recently when she was home on spring break. We're both big fans of the graphic novel. We both thought the film was...meh.
No question they captures teh look of the novel, sometimes clearly using comic frames as storyboard panels. But the thing seemed so damned determine to "get Watchmen right" that it sank under the leaden weight of its own reverence; it had way too little of the verve or the humor of its source material. Oh, and the soundtrack was incredibly annoying, not only when it worked liek a sledgehammer (often) but even when it featured artists I really like (Dylan, Phillip Glass, Leonard Cohen). The ending was changed for the better, though. I'll give them that. But I doubt I'll ever give the film another passing thought. |
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