Post by Qui-Kel Jinn on Mar 17, 2009 1:17:14 GMT -5
So What Did Everyone Think Of The Movie And Why?? Here Are My Thoughts!!!!
I saw Watchmen the other night, and I feel cheated. I understand staying true to the tone and look of the comic book, but this plodding parade of back story and unsympathetic characters was more than one movie-goer should have to bear. Instead of the suspense and action of a Spiderman or Batman you get a dour and brooding look at a comical alternate reality where President Nixon has just been elected to his fifth term.
Visually, you could freeze frame this film at almost any moment and you would see the frame of a graphic novel. All of the composition is not just borrowed from a comic, but almost Xeroxed onto the screen. While this sounds like it might be a strength, this technique limits this film to two dimensional action that fits right in with the two dimensional story and one dimensional characters. And let's not even get into the amazing glowing blue dangly - I really could have done with MUCH less of that. And not out of some prudish modesty, but to keep the film from become even more of a joke. I firmly believe that the visuals of that thing will live on long after the nightmare of this movie has faded.
Just to prove that I am not alone here, there were many times - like the dramatic low angle of Nixon as he considers going to DEFCON 1 - where the crowd burst into laughter. Instead of tense apprehension and concern for the fate of man, we were entertained by the overly dramatic and cartoonish elder statesman. The movie so wore on the crowd that at one point an African-American woman in front of me pleaded for that blue man to put something on that thing. We would have all been better off having not seen any of it at all.
If you find a DVD of this laying on the street, break it - you time is much more valuable than to waste it on this cold dry trash.
I saw Watchmen the other night, and I feel cheated. I understand staying true to the tone and look of the comic book, but this plodding parade of back story and unsympathetic characters was more than one movie-goer should have to bear. Instead of the suspense and action of a Spiderman or Batman you get a dour and brooding look at a comical alternate reality where President Nixon has just been elected to his fifth term.
Visually, you could freeze frame this film at almost any moment and you would see the frame of a graphic novel. All of the composition is not just borrowed from a comic, but almost Xeroxed onto the screen. While this sounds like it might be a strength, this technique limits this film to two dimensional action that fits right in with the two dimensional story and one dimensional characters. And let's not even get into the amazing glowing blue dangly - I really could have done with MUCH less of that. And not out of some prudish modesty, but to keep the film from become even more of a joke. I firmly believe that the visuals of that thing will live on long after the nightmare of this movie has faded.
Just to prove that I am not alone here, there were many times - like the dramatic low angle of Nixon as he considers going to DEFCON 1 - where the crowd burst into laughter. Instead of tense apprehension and concern for the fate of man, we were entertained by the overly dramatic and cartoonish elder statesman. The movie so wore on the crowd that at one point an African-American woman in front of me pleaded for that blue man to put something on that thing. We would have all been better off having not seen any of it at all.
If you find a DVD of this laying on the street, break it - you time is much more valuable than to waste it on this cold dry trash.