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Originally Posted by noisereductions
I mean you can have your opinion on the acting or choice of actors or director and all, but as far as "absurd," "gratuitously gross," "pornographic" etc... I'm kind of baffled. Because it was pretty much a frame-for-frame remake of the graphic novel until the very end. It did have some really crazy shit in it that kind of shocked me. But that crazy shit was in the book.
I know that I'm in the minority on this one, but I'm always kind of confused when people say that they hate the movie but love the book. I'm not sure how else the movie could have been made honestly. It generally seems to me that those that seem so against Watchmen already were so before seeing it. Meaning, I tend to think some folks just don't want Watchmen to have been made into a movie and were going to hate it no matter the outcome.
Of course, your opinion is your opinion and as I said above - it seems to even be the popular one. But when I watched it I didn't feel like it was acted poorly or corny or dim-witted or anything. I just felt like it was a rather faithful adaptation of the comics... and that was really all I would have hoped for honestly.
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The orig. comic was groundbreaking when it came out but aspects of it have dated in a way that the film could've easily addressed while still remaining true to its message, but the director seemed almost intimidated by the original. That would still make it as good as the comics except that I think the film tries to squeeze too much into its running time (I agree with Terry Gilliam that it could've only really worked as a mini-series) and, for all its spectacular moments, Snyder's direction just seems really flat. Lots of stuff happening but little real excitement, or drama, or tension.
Saying all that, I don't think the film's quite the disaster some claim. It has some excellent moments. It just doesn't quite hold together for me. I do much prefer the original but I fall short of considering even that the greatest thing to ever happen to comics (which some, often those who hate the film the most, seem to). I wouldn't even say it's the best thing Alan Moore's ever done. For a lot of people (and I'm definitely not putting you in this category) it was probably the 1st 'serious' superhero comic they'd read, and I dare say for many of them it was the only one. Watchmen got a wider audience because of its association with DC, but for me Moore's Halo Jones stories for 2000AD are his best. They've been anthologised and if you ever see them, get them; if anything, unlike Watchmen, they're even more relevant now than they were when they first came out.
