Watchmen

I love movies. I have a huge gallery of movies at my home. About 850. Burned DVDs and regular DVDs. VHS tapes, I love me some movies. I also like to go to the theatre, when I don't get jackets torn off of me that is. I always have problems with theatres though. Mainly the talking. When I went with the girlfriend to go see Watchmen we didn't have many people in the theatre but the ones we did have talked. It takes away from the movie a little. Well, maybe a little more than a little. Another thing that took away from my experience was the Internet. Now, I am a comic book fan. A dork, a geek, whatever you want to call me, that's fine. I read comic books. Right now I'm reading "The walking dead" I am an X-Men fan. Mostly a Marvel fan but I do really like the Green Lantern. Anyways. I read Watchmen a long time ago and had forgotten most of what happens. So much to my dismay, I read some press about the Watchmen movie. In it, it gave away the death of one character and an event that would be in the movie. A rape scene.

This may sound cruel but with how much emphasis was put on this one scene in the article I thought it was going to be very showing and very brutal. What I watched was rather light. To say I was disappointed that nothing happened is not to say I wanted to see something happen. I just didn't understand the build up of something that by today's standards would be kid friendly. Now the movie I watched the next day "last house on the left" that was brutal. That was much more real. The type of scene that makes you uncomfortable to watch. I found myself laughing at the Watchmen scene. Not because of what the Comedian was going to do, but because it was presented in a rather campy style. With the two trading blows to the superhero "thunk" noise.

I rather liked Watchmen. I would put it in my top 10 comic book movies. But I would put The Dark Knight, Sin City, 300, and the first 2 X-Men ahead of it. And the third X-men a spot below it. I thought the ending was perfect. Something we haven't seen before. A smart ending that didn't have the hero walking off into the sunset, or riding a bat bike away with campy dialogue over it. Still one of my top movies but was it necessary to say "the world needs him, he needs to be the bad guy now?" Not really.

I thought the casting was perfect for Watchmen. It was a handful of unknowns. No one would watch this movie with Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst in it. I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan from his role on Weeds. He played a perfect role. I loved Rorschach. There was plenty of twists in this. I felt the little ending thing felt tacked on even though it was in the book. Coulda done without it. I thought the final showdown of the movie was spectacular.

My only problems with the movie stem from some campy bits and dialogue, and the music. Let's start with the music. I loved every song, but they didn't feel right for the movie. I would have rather they made original music for the picture. Just instrumentals. That would have been better in my opinion. There was some campy little scene's like Nite Owl and Silk Specter playing with his gadgets. Not the love scene, the actual metal gadgets. While it was funny, it was not really needed all that much. The terms "costumed heroes" and "masked avengers" took me outta it a little. These are such old timey (i know the film is set in the 70's) terms. Make it "someones picking off heroes" or "someones picking off members of the Watchmen." Silk's line about being a "masked avenger" didn't really work because SHE DOESN'T WEAR A MASK!

Anyways. I overall really loved this movie. I'd give it a 7 1/2 out of 10. Also I would like to know the person who drew the short straw and had to animate Dr. Manhattan's swinging johnson. That must have been a fun job.