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Watchmen Watched
In a blatant attempt to make my movie-going a valid business expense, I'm putting together some notes on Watchmen, and providing a place for you all to discuss it. The first thing I want to say is that I had high hopes: If you ask any serious comic book nerd what the most important book is, they will probably give you one of two answers, and "Watchmen" is the right one. So really Snyder, the director of 300, could only do wrong. Fortunately for me, he was very true to the book: just like 300, many sequences are shot-for-shot from the comics. Some stuff didn't make it, and the new ending has a different meaning to me (one that really isn't as satisfying, but is certainly cleaner). But what I can't say is if it was a good movie or not. I sorta wish I could get an impartial opinion of someone who isn't a nutty fan of the book to tell me how it stands as a movie. I imagine a bit slow, wordy and maybe a bit confusing in parts. I'll leave full reviews to others, but I enjoyed the picture and suspect you will too.
No kidding. I think this was basically a, "HAHA, I saw the movie and you probably didn't. And by the way, you sucker subscribers even paid for my popcorn and gas to drive to the theater."
Anybody else notice that Watchmen actually happened?
"Ozymandias decides to unite the world under a One World Government by manufacturing a False Flag attack on New York to unite the world against a made-up threat."
Sound familiar?
The only difference being that Ozymandias was driven by a desire to assist mankind, not enslave it. Though, in working through deception, the whole scheme remains broken.
The only thing I can't decide is whether Allan Moore was a genius or if Bush & Co were juvenile.
The fact that it seems to have worked says a lot about humanity as a whole.
-FL