My brother-in-law and I caught the 6:15pm showing of Watchmen last night. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in. It’s been been twenty-one years since I read the originals and beyond some key points I didn’t remember much more about it other than that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Over the past week I tried to squeeze in a quick re-read of the graphic novel and didn’t quite make it— I made it to the part where Nite Owl and Rorschach crashed land in the snow (trying to give enough info for those that know the story without giving away any spoilers). So basically, I didn’t have a chance to re-read the ending that I knew had been changed for the movie.
As the movie theater clearly pointed out multiple times… this isn’t your typical super hero movie. It’s graphic in language, in violence and in nudity. It’s a sad, broken, bleak alternate world. Doom and despair weigh heavily on everyone. Most everyone agrees that the world is ending soon… just how soon is all that most differ on.
If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, so be it. But I do recommend it. I was expecting to leave the theater with the movie weighing heavily on my shoulders, overwhelmed by all that I witnessed. But I didn’t. The only issue I had with the movie (including the different ending) was the soundtrack. The individual songs were fine— every song awesome on its own. But the selection does NOT fit the film whatsoever. I don’t know who was responsible for that but it was bad, bad, bad.
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