Well, I'm off to see the watchmen.

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I watched this movie yesterday.

I can only give the opinion of a movie goer, as I have not read the comic books.

I must say, this movie is basically a thank you to those comic book readers, because if you haven't read it (like me), you won't understand a thing for the first hour.

The movie's main fault is definitely that it assumes that you know whats going on and that this movie is just a chance for you to see it in motion. I think IGN's review put it best when it said that(paraphrase here), in trying to recreate the comic book exactly, the makers forgot the fact that the readers had 1 month to digest the information and go over it again before the next issue, in this 150 minute movie it doesn't give you that luxury. It's artistic style is pretty awesome, and the characters are odd in that they are either awesome or fall flat.

POTENTIAL SPOILERS FROM HERE ONWARDS:

The best character in the whole film is Rorschach, easily. He's the only character you feel empathy with in the entire movie. Comedians a cold bastard, Nite Owl seems like a selfish douchebag (stealing a fellow team mates girl and all), Silk Spectre a bit of a sl*t, Dr. Manhatten is probably the next person closest to achieving empathy with (which, if you've seen the movie/read the comic, is laughable given his character) and Adrian just seems like the actor didn't know the character (and this is coming from someone who hasn't read the comic and doesn't know the character either!).

HUGE SPOILERS HERE:

Similarly to the IGN review, I find the ending a bit ridiculous. Dr. M is an American Weapon, I don't really get how the world is able to unite when America's weapon caused the devastation (or at least they think so anyway). I would have thought the deaths in New York would have been more viewed as America getting a taste of their own medicine (or at least realistically thats what the other nations should have thought I felt).

Apparently the original ending is that it's blamed on Aliens? I thought that would have been a far better ending, as it would have made more sense then blaming it on Dr. Manhattan (in the sense of the reaction of the nations).

Also, What the HELL was up with that weird tiger thing? Similarly to the weird monsters in 300, it really put me off the movie, it really broke the realistic feel of the movie (aside from Dr. Manhattan of course).

In the end, it was a good movie that doesn't fair to well because it seems as though the makers were so hell bent on making this faithful, that they forgot the difference between comic books and movies. I enjoyed it, but it's not one of the best comic book movies of all time