Watchmen: Eh.

Saw it this week...all 2:40something hours of it. Goes on longer than a Bob Corker soundbite.

Frankly, I didn't much care for it. But then again, I don't have acne and do have sexual relations, so I guess I'm not the target audience. But then again, I wasn't the target audience for Iron Man nor Wanted and loved them both.

And yes, I have read the book. And yes, the book is much better than the movie.

Hate it for Zack Snyder who I know on a personal level, and he really put his heart and soul in this movie.

 

Two million comic geeks just picked up axes and headed to Tennessee and don't know why.

 

LOL

Especially since I'm in LA!

 

The book was perfect yet complex. I don't see how anyone could successfully adapt it into a somewhat decent film.

 

I just hope there's some CGI in it. We don't get enough of that stuff nowadays.

 

Book was excellent on how it deconstructed costumed heroes.

Not a whole lot of action, through.

 

The world will look up and shout, "Entertain us!" And I'll whisper, "No."

 

I would have loved to see Watchmen as a 12-part one-hour one-shot HBO series.

 

Ditto what Hiro said.

I love the graphic novel (shocking, I know. I also have sexual relations on occasion, and no acne problems!). I have never seen how it could possibly be anything but a five or six-hour film. Don't edit it to 2:40. Split it in two, like Kill Bill, and like the final Harry Potter will be.

 

I will judge for myself.

 

To be honest, I was underwhelmed by the graphic novel. I thought it started great then fizzled out toward the end. I think I'll wait to see the movie at home, especially if it's 2:40.

 

As far as endings go, Watchmen could have been written by Stephen King. You spend all those pages developing a great story and characters . . . and at the end, it's a damn spider. Or the mystical "Hand of God."

I've wondered how Watchmen's comic book climax/ending would work with a mass audience. My guess is "Not very well."