It was inevitable

I'm going to talk about Watchmen.
But wait, you write a music blog! You can't talk about movies! Let someone more qualified talk about movies.

Shut it.

ANYWAYS.
Watchmen is probably the greatest graphic novel I've ever read and in my top 10 books. Sooo, at the sheer mention of this being a movie I was half frightened half extremely excited I was pissing in my pants. But. I had to wait. Then trailers came and the cast was listed and I was thinking 'Hey, this could be pretty good!' and then I started to relax. And then it was Thursday night 11PM and I'm walking with my friend Scott Leaf and I got piss ass scared. I had attempted to shy away from reviews and things but I had to read reviews. I read a few iffy and a few downers. But I assumed it was because everyone is stupid and didn't read the book or watch the motion comic. Which, consequently, that's the case, or I think I guess.

So that brings me to the point. The movie started out awesome. The entire opening scene with the history transitions and the apartment scene with the Comedian was so epic. My only complaint was.... YOU ALMOST SEE THE ASSASSINS FACE. What the fuck is that? It's supposed to be a mystery and he's supposed to be unknown. I'm trying really hard to not ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it or read it (yet). None the less the movie gets awesome-er as it goes by. But around the middle it sort of plateus out and then just gets stiff. Rorsrach is hands down my favorite character in the movie and Jackie Earl Haley is spot on. Seriously spot on. Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan was epic. People I've talked too were not so hot on him, but, I felt that sicne Dr. Manhattan is so emotionally empty and detached, Billy's monotone voice really suited it perfectly. Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt was acceptable, but, I felt he was way too pompus and too douche-y compared to the Veidt in the book until the end, I think. Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreidberg was good, I always felt that Driedberg was sort of a social outcast, never really the one anyone listened to and the one who always seemed to get ignored by the ladies (Oh wow.. That's me, fml). As as for Malin Akerman as Laurie Jupiter.... Totally hot, zero emotion until the end and it was sort of odd (Except for all the boobie shots. I definitely liked that, but that's because I'm crusining along on a super long dry spell.... I shouldn't have told you that). Bringing me finally to Jeffery Dean Morgan as the Comedian who did a pretty good job being the American douche bag stereotype.

But, I'm rather void of any real opinion on the movie. What I watched for two and a half hours almost wasn't what I wanted, I don't think. However, I don't want to say that the movie wasn't well done, because it really was beautifully shot and Zack Snyder did a pretty good job I think. They kept all the swearing and all the violence and didn't really bitch out on anything that would have really turned the movie to poop on film. But they did however change the ending, taking out the subplot (If you read the book you'll know what I mean) but I don't think it's really effected much as I felt it would.

But over all, I felt it was a pretty good movie and GREAT attempt at capturing something that was extremely difficult to capture. It's definitely not on par with the last Moore adaptation, but, it definitely wasn't bad.



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