LMAO this is my last reply in this thread because you guys are simply ridiculous. Telling me to read the novel to a movie I am basically saying that I hated. Why would I waste my time doing that? Youre Trying to convince me the story in the movie was deep and the characters were well developed. No thanks. I no longer wish to partake in such nonsense.
It's my opinion on the movie. Simple. Don't like it? Too bad. The movie was horrible. Got horrible reviews. Was somewhat of a box office flop (not horrible numbers, but not as good as expected)
The film was big on special effects, thin on story. Kind of like the Fast and the Furious movies. What was the movie about? Super heros being hunted? Funny, they spent more time showing Dr Manhatten meditating on Mars than they showed Heros being hunted.
I made this thread to vent some frustrations after wasting 3 hours on this crap movie. I'll leave it with some quotes from critics that I agree with:
As a result, it's not until the second hour of "Watchmen" that a satisfying narrative groove emerges. That's too late.
Any chance at generating emotional investment in the characters is gone. Any good will from optimistic audience-members has been squandered. Clock-watching has set in.
Did they really pull it off? Has the novel, long called unfilmable, actually been filmed, and well?
Unfortunately, no. Because “Watchmen,” for its remaining two-plus hours, is essentially all downhill from there. It delves deeply into the novel’s mythology and tells its story, very badly, to the point where I can’t imagine anyone who hasn’t read the book even beginning to understand much of it. I know I didn’t.
Yes, the film looks great, and I’m told it’s faithful to the book.
The biggest problem with “Watchmen” is at the screenplay level. The story, as adapted by David Hayter and Alex Tse, just plain isn’t told very well, and the introduction of both the characters and mythology are extremely difficult to follow for anyone not already intimately familiar with both.
The story is told in a bizarrely roundabout way, jumping back and forth through time, into and out of flashbacks, all the while alternating between too much expository dialogue and not enough.
The reverential tone stands in the way of storytelling. 300 had a similar feel, but it needed that treatment to prop up its thin plot. Watchmen, on the other hand, is dense and needs room to breathe. Snyder never provides that, resulting in a stifling experience, even at a running time of 163 minutes.
This may be everything Moore's fans have hoped for but there is little for the average film fan to understand let alone enjoy.
The film's storytelling and image-making lack originality and vitality. Nothing sticks to your memory unless you come in with recollections of the book.
Except for a few strong performances (balanced out by a few awful ones) and the strength of the ideas at the core of Watchmen, the film is a complete disaster, one of the biggest disappointments of the last several years.
It wasn’t that I wasn’t engaged in some of the (many) story lines, it’s just that there was never enough time spent with any particular one to so as to become emotionally involved … which seem strange to say about a movie 165 minutes long.
Not"Watchmen" but a not-so-incredible simulation that reduces a complex examination of the dynamics of dopey superhero epics into just another dopey superhero epic.
An overlong, overstuffed endurance test with precious few highs. Being an adaptation of this particular graphic novel, I can forgive many things, but I can't forgive a film version of Watchmen for being boring.
Watchmen has a few moments of brief wonder, but the rest is a soulless, unimaginative work, a flat adaptation with a Bob Dylan soundtrack.
With Snyder, "visionary" means he's all about the visuals, and he does mine Watchmen for impressive, computer-enhanced eye candy. But Snyder is tone deaf to stultifying dialogue and wooden performances.
The result is oddly hollow and disjointed; the actors moving stiffly from one overdetermined tableau to another.
It pains me to say that, while scrupulously faithful in nearly every regard (save the ending) to writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons' landmark DC Comics series, the film itself is bizarrely cold and uninvolving.
Stunning visuals with lots of thrilling, mindless action sequences don't compensate for an overstuffed, confusing plot and bland, forgettable superheroes that leave you feeling underwhelmed.
It seems to be the consensus. Great special effects, boring story and characters.
That's just off a couple pages of the rottentamatoes reviews. I didnt even go searching for the really bad ones.
I know you can find bad reviews on any movie, but all the complaints on Watchmen all seem to be the same from everyone, which shows a major flaw in the movie and not just one person nitpicking.
