Post Your Reviews for "WATCHMEN"

[boibomb]

Yea this movie was very good, for a person that had no background on the watchmen series. I really like it. The fight scenes were like a violent musical. The gore made the movie more in your face. I walk out of the movie feeling like i learn something about mankind and how we act. Yea Mr Manhattan is naked all the time.lol

i give it a 7 out of 10

[bluguerrilla]

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I liked it but I'm looking forward to reading the graphic novel.

And yeah it had a ton more giant, blue cock in it than I expected.

/indepthreview

[Syhto]

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I just saw it and I thought it sucked ass.
There's my review.
It was boring, lengthy, and had atrocious song choice. There was close to 0 action for a ****ing super hero movie. If you like misplaced sex scenes and staring at some blue guy's dick, go for it. It was too sappy and pretentious for me. Sorry. 2 and a half hours of ****.

it may have been better if the people having sex were better looking

[Flandre Scarlet]

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Movies never, never live up to the same excite and feel from a novel or book. A few classmates of mine went and saw the movie because we read the novel in class because our teacher is awesome, and told me it was "meh" and just average.

If you haven't read the novel, go do it now because it's the damn novel and not a ****ty movie. =)

[Zybanthia]

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I saw it opening night and these are about my exact thoughts:

It was boring, lengthy, and had atrocious song choice. There was close to 0 action for a ****ing super hero movie. If you like misplaced sex scenes and staring at some blue guy's dick, go for it.

except I didn't dislike it quite as much as Syhto. The main parts were the absolutely horrible song choices and close to zero action scenes. Also, sex scenes (I think they're dumb all the time, every time, but especially here). I didn't think it was so boring the whole time, but it could have been a lot better.

Also, for a movie that really wasn't full of a lot of action or violence, it had random cuts to absolutely senseless violence. I mean for about 2 hours we just see people talking about their past then CUT TO A GUY GETTING HIS ARMS CUT OFF BY A CHAINSAW UNCENSORED ON-SCREEN. Uhhhhh, okay? If you're going to make this movie Saw or something maybe do this the whole movie not just talk the whole time THEN decide to do this?

Yeah, could have been a lot better.

[NFD]

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Going to go see it tomorrow with thugnif92 (user).
Better be good.

[makdaddy]

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I just saw it and I thought it sucked ass.
There's my review.
It was boring, lengthy, and had atrocious song choice. There was close to 0 action for a ****ing super hero movie. If you like misplaced sex scenes and staring at some blue guy's dick, go for it. It was too sappy and pretentious for me. Sorry. 2 and a half hours of ****.

it may have been better if the people having sex were better looking

this to the extreme

3 out of 10

Also, for a movie that really wasn't full of a lot of action or violence, it had random cuts to absolutely senseless violence. I mean for about 2 hours we just see people talking about their past then CUT TO A GUY GETTING HIS ARMS CUT OFF BY A CHAINSAW UNCENSORED ON-SCREEN. Uhhhhh, okay? If you're going to make this movie Saw or something maybe do this the whole movie not just talk the whole time THEN decide to do this?

also, this.

the violence was horribly misplaced, it seemed like they would try to tell the story and then do something violent like the graphic novel would do. But it just seemed out of place and retarded in movie form.

[Flandre Scarlet]

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This honestly isn't a good choice for taking a graphic novel and translating it into a movie.

The novel is centered around heavy dialogue and exploring the characters, while the plot is pretty much kept in the backround and really only shows its true colors somewhat in the end. Not enough action scenes to make the long length enjoyable for those who haven't read the novel. The novel also jumped about everywhere, which didn't go well for the movie. The movie is only good for promoting the novel lol.

Also, it may include "superheroes", but it's obvious that this is no superhero movie, and should never be deemed similar to any superhero movie that has been produced.

Watchmen is unique, and should have been kept as unfilmable.

[Zybanthia]

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Also, it may include "superheroes", but it's obvious that this is no superhero movie, and should never be deemed similar to any superhero movie that has been produced.

Obvious? Hmmm, according to every single trailer I watched this was going to be one of the most kick-ass superhero movies of all time. If it was more about plot than anything else, I don't think they should have advertised it as "another superhero movie", yet all the scenes in the trailer were the ones of people firing rifles, dodging flames, and otherwise blowing people up with their hands. It's a bad idea to give people a notion of how a movie's going to be, and then turn 180 and make it the other way, especially for those for haven't read the novel (although it's a bad idea in general).

Even aside from that, I didn't have such a problem with the low amount of action. I found myself interested in the characters' past, and what Dr. Manhattan was going to do, and all the intrigue parts. At least, interested enough not to feel I hated the movie. But it was all the other bad content choices, like senseless violence (read: not furthering plot, and set up for the sake of being violent), gratuitous sex scenes (not like sex scenes aren't gratuitous every time but this one was ridiculous), and the failed attempt at the "artsy music shots" that made me dislike it the way I do.

[Flandre Scarlet]

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Well, I meant from understanding the novel, but the movie trailers have projected the movie as a superhero movie, which I find ruins the entire feel of the whole thing.

The problem is producers always like to change the movie into something that is ****, and starts crippling the reputation of the original media. Part of the ending was changed in the movie, (spoiler in white: The tentacle monster that Veidt teleports into the city was replaced by that massive energy whatever ball shown in the trailer, which wipes out an enormous amount of people "end spoiler") and I guess if there were violent scenes that really didn't fit in the period of time that was occuring were not in the novel, as well as the sex scenes, just ruined it more so.

[Afrobean]

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I just saw it and I thought it sucked ass.
There's my review.
It was boring, lengthy, and had atrocious song choice.

Length is irrelevant if pacing is good. When you complain about how bad a movie is, you should complain about poor pacing rather than how long it is.

And why do some people hate the music choice so much? I haven't seen it yet (going tomorrow probably), but I took a look at the soundtrack and it looks really solid.

There was close to 0 action for a ****ing super hero movie.

Who said this was a "super hero" movie? It's a film based on a graphic novel and it has "super heroes" in it, but it is far apart from the established "genre" of films commonly known as "super hero" movies. This isn't Spider-man or Batman or Superman. It stands on its own.

we read the novel in class because our teacher is awesome

Sounds freaking irresponsible to me. Are the students' parents aware that their children are having academic curriculum based around such adult material? I would be VERY mad if I had a child in school and the school made them study material as graphic and mature as this. Hell, I'd be mad if the school even gave them the OPTION of studying it without consulting me first.

And folks, don't judge it too harshly I think. There's still a director's cut on the way and an "ultimate" cut that will be the director's cut with the animated Black Freighter footage interspliced where applicable. They say the director's cut might even get a theatrical release if the initial theatrical run goes well enough.

[Zybanthia]

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Well, I meant from understanding the novel, but the movie trailers have projected the movie as a superhero movie, which I find ruins the entire feel of the whole thing.

The problem is producers always like to change the movie into something that is ****, and starts crippling the reputation of the original media.

Exactly. Bad move on their part.

Even if you know an original story, it won't necessarily turn out exactly like the original. Movies have often gone different directions from the original content, or delivered it in different ways. Some, like Michael Crichton's "Lost World", have been entirely different. Promoting a story-based film to be an action film is just a bad idea even if you do know the original content, I think.

And folks, don't judge it too harshly I think.

I personally am not "judging" this movie, I'm simply telling what I honestly thought of it in my opinion. And I like almost every genre of movie. I'm not trying to be a critic, but when I dislike things in a movie, I'm not afraid to say it. Regardless of whatever versions there are to come, I am saying my thoughts on this version, and if I'm harsh, then so be it, but that's the topic of discussion... not the director's cut, ultimate cut, or whatever other cut.

[Afrobean]

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The ads were done the same way ALL ads are. They give you the funniest or most exciting or most ____ that the movie has to offer to tease you into being interested.

They make these movies to make money, so they're gonna do whatever they can to sell tickets.

I personally am not "judging" this movie

Actually you are, and that's fine. You have that right. I was just trying to point out that this instance of the film you saw isn't even the true director's intent. Yes, judge it, but don't judge it too harshly yet.

[Flandre Scarlet]

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@Afro: My teacher censored all blood and nudity etc with black bars, removing whole panels, and just plain recoloring panels black and white. Dumb to not notify parents, but it was a short notice plan to incorporate fiction in a class focusing on non-fiction.

[Zybanthia]

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funniest or most exciting

This is my point: how many of the trailers of Watchmen advertised a single funny line? I can't think of one.

Now how many trailers of any comedy movie are going to show the action scenes? Unless the action scenes are meant to further the comedic value... probably none.

Advertise the movie based on its genre. Advertising a movie to be an action movie when it's not is bad advertising for your own movie. I'm not the only one that's said there was little action in it as if this were a bad thing; my friends I saw it with and Syhto here said the same things independent of my comments. That's because we were all expecting an action movie. Now if the trailers had shown all the workings between Ozymandias, and the scenes with Rorschach trying to get information, etc etc, we probably wouldn't have expected an action movie.

Yeah, of course the trailers are going to show the best parts, but they're going to do it relevant to the movie's genre. At least, in most cases.