March 6, 2009
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3.6/2009
All those months waiting for Watchmen... and the movie is complete garbage. I mean, I knew there would be no way it would be able to capture all of the graphic novel in the span of three hours, but it still managed to fall short of my low expectations. The movie was that disappointing.
They changed important things, omitted others, and did executed other things horribly. I wanted a few things from this movie: I wanted to see Veidt's face after Night Owl questioned his ability to catch a bullet. I wanted to see how they would make the constructed sci-fi monster look. Lastly, I definitely wanted to see Rorschach burn down the house of the child killer (with him in it, chained to a stove with a saw at his feet). However, none of these scenes occurred. I can't even fathom why they changed these scenes. The questioning about the bullet-catching never occurred entirely. The monster didn't exist, because they had to leave out the Pirate metafiction story. Lastly, they changed Rorschach's scene by making his character kill the man with a butcher knife.
I feel as though the imagery of the original work was better. Firstly, let's talk about Veidt: Veidt's smug look in response to Night Owl's questions about the reality of bullet-catching was priceless. It demonstrated his arrogance in both his character and in his philosophy concerning peace and the ways of the world. Secondly, The sci-fi monster exploding in the middle of New York City was created a better image than the explosion by the bomb that was made in the movie. Watching people begin to notice, panic, and cope with their inevitable demise seemed a better way to demonstrate the humanity of the scene, and I believe that the bloodied aftermath was a better representation of the destructive force behind Veidt's plan. Thirdly, Rorschach, sitting outside the burning house to see if the man would escape was definitely a more powerful image than him intentionally killing the man, and becoming no different from him.
Additionally, perhaps it was just me, but I envisioned the Watchmen movie to be darker... especially because of the first trailer that was produced. The movie had too many jokes, too little moments of gravity and realism. Furthermore, where in the hell did all of these Kung Fu, Matrix-esque fighting scenes come from? (Also, I thought "Rorschach" was pronounced "Ror-shock," not "Ror-shack" but maybe I'm wrong.)
Already one of the worst films of 2009.
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