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The Watchmen: Hit or Miss
I went to see the film, the watchman. You don’t have to take my opinion but if I were you I’d run for the hills.
‘A comedian died tonight in New York City’
It’s no ‘here’s looking at you, kid’ but I’ll admit…it’s a catchy line. And the movie had has many good points; great special effects, all right screenplay, intriguing costumes but that was it. There were some witty lines but that doesn’t hold a scene together, it was odd to watch it felt too… awkward. With films like this suspended disbelief is essential to sympathize with characters. They didn’t believe it. I didn’t believe it.
The plot was quite hard to follow with flashbacks and two sets of watchmen…I think. Yes defiantly. It took me ages to distinguish if it was a new generation of watchmen OR the flashbacks showed them throughout their life (young and old.) Again a plus side was that flashbacks did give you back ground on the characters motives and emotions. However, you did have to piece it together in a Quinton Tarrentino-esque fashion. But what’s a film without the cryptic factor? (Why I think the Crystal maze lasted as long as it did.)
Another cryptic point was this issue; ‘WHO HAS SUPER POWERS?’ It’s mentioned briefly that they were just police officers in outfit. Simple. THEN, Mr. Manhattan get trapped in some kind of particle accelerator and gets super powers of moving through time and the ability to become a giant. This is easy enough to follow. Yes. But then all of the rest of the watchmen display the superhuman ability of constantly avoiding death, being inhumanly fast with ridiculously fast reflexes. So fast we have to slow time to follow them. I went with five other people to see it on Sunday the 8th of March and the first thing we asked each other was ‘so, right…who was superhuman?’
There were some sex scenes quite hardcore actually, writhing naked bodies entwined, no restraint. Which I’m not going to lie…was nice. I have a great love of nudity but they lasted for ages…were so irrational to the plot and again were awkward. The was between the Nite Owl (11) and Silver Spectre (11). He’s not that hot (has a lot of chin skin) and at first I thought she was Keira Knightly. But she was prettier I reckon, less thin.
Eight people just walked out just over half an hour in, with a gradual ebb and flow for the rest of the film. Three hours. This film stole three hours of my life! I have never not finished a film, no matter how awful, and paid £5.10 for my seat so I was determined to get my money’s worth.
For me, I watch a ridiculous amount of films but don’t pretend to be an expert, the film was a miss. Didn’t read comic version first but neither did I for V for Vendetta which I adored and became one of my favourite films because it was so powerful. Regardless of what I think I desperatly hope that people who did read the comic go and see it as they’ll have a deeper appreciation. Otherwise, If you have 3 hours to kill, want the trills or a death wish, go for it! MISS
