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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 sex scene was NOT like that in the comic, bra.
Nor was it used to smear shame all over "Halelujiah."
The sex scene was so gross and tacky and classless and, yeah, pornographic, that I was literally (and I'm using that word correctly) in
tears while I was watching it. My friend and I were laughing so hard... we probably pissed together.
It was super gross and hilarious, and very much like a cheapo Cinemax porno.
Also, the comic didn't have bones breaking. It didn't have gallons of blood. Not everyone was a super-ninja. In fact, that was part of the point of it all. These were washed up and broken people. Cynical, tired, old. The comic was built around blocks of text, relatively spare but colorful artwork, and deep conceptual themes, but it didn't have the self-masturbatory feel of that overly self-serious piece of crap movie.
Just my opinion. Lots of people liked it. Even I found it entertaining upon my second viewing. But it is *not* good filmmaking.
Finally, when has a shot for shot adaptation of anything worked? Shot for shot Psycho remake was shit on a skewer. You say "it's just like the book" as though that means there's no finesse required in translating something from page to screen, from segmented panels to continuous motion. There is a huge curve there, and in Watchmen's case, I think a more subtle take on the book that encompassed the *story* rather than simply replicating all the visual components would have been the way to go.
But yeah, I pretty much don't think it should have been a movie.
I don't even love the comic that much. Seriously. I just think it's brilliantly written. But the characters are abhorrent, except for Rorschach, and the movie went ahead and made him abhorrent too.
Honest trailers - Watchment. Go watch it.
"Featuring: Superman... if he was a DICK. Batman... If he was a DICK. And Wonder Woman... If she was a DICK."