I saw Watchmen with 5 other comic geeks and we all LOVED IT.
Watchmen 12 Percent Discount On All Orders
Watchmen was a fantastic adaptation from the comic book/graphic novel. Snyder painfully, and lovingly, adhered to the theme that Moore and Gibbons created 20 years ago.
It succeeded in its adaptation and interpretation just as Peter Jackson’s translation of Lord Of The Rings succeeded; with unerring, devout commitment to every single friggin’ detail in the book . The commitment and attention to detail and strict adherence to the plot and imagery in the comic is unlike no other comic-to-film ever seen, except for possibly Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City.
I cannot stop thinking about this movie and how accurate and dead on target it was in honoring the works of Moore and Gibbons. Everything about this movie was taken STRAIGHT from the comic. Even though the scene with the newspaper stand and the kid reading the Black Freighter comic had no more than a couple seconds on screen, you will notice that Snyder duplicated virtually everything from the comic, down to the patch on the kid’s left knee and the green sweater worn by the street vendor with the left-over-right lapel. (For those of you who’ve seen the movie, notice who is in the foreground of the movie pic.)
This is truly a movie that can only be fully appreciated by those who have read, and reread, the graphic novel that Moore created in 1986 and 1987. Each time you read Watchmen, you learn a little more about the story that you hadn’t known before. After reading, and upon experiencing the movie, you will be amazed at the Watchmen come to life in a believable and very real alternate reality.
Above all the other Watchmen, Rorschach shined with surprising and exceptional grittiness that surpassed what was in the book. No wonder why the audience cheered during his vent in the prison cafeteria; “You don’t get it! I’m not STUCK IN HERE WITH YOU! YOU’RE STUCK IN HERE WITH ME!!” God I loved it.
Yes there are some alterationgs from the comic book, but surprisingly few. The death of Rorschach has Nite Owl as his witness, but it only contributed as we watched Nite Owl plunge further into his dispair and disillusionment. When he screams NO!! we all scream NO!! for are we all not disillusioned and betrayed by our heroes who kill to save us.
Aside from the absence of the Black Freighter story and the accompanying newstand backdrop, and the murder of Hollis Mason by the Top Knots gang, which I hear will be added to the dvd, there was very little missing from the original story.
I cannot WAIT to see this movie again and to buy the extended version dvd with the extra hour and a half.
I loved this movie. You’ll definitely want to get your hands on some Watchmen merchandise once you see the movie.
