Comments on: Watchmen

By: teresa

teresa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:31:33 +0000

Thought this film was the biggest heap of crap I have ever seen in my life, absoute nonsense, no decent story line, long, drawn out so boring, wasted 3 hours of my life and what really annoys me is the sex scenes, they have nothing to do with the film, this film is for 14 year old boys!
Stay clear

By: coffee

coffee — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:42:01 +0000

Watchmen is a visual and psychological cornucopia — definitely worth watching

By: Eoin

Eoin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:53:12 +0000

Neither Mary-Lou nor myself liked it and we had no prior knowledge of any of the characters or stories.

I’ll be very surprised if the box office takings don’t drop off after the initial week or so.

Surprised nobody’s mentioned the laughable use of music yet either.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:25:58 +0000

We’ll see, Kate really enjoyed not having read the graphic novel, we went to it on a Tuesday night I think it was and the cinema was fairly packed with a lot of very positive sounds afterwards.

I think the whole film industry is waiting to see whether non comic fans, in general, will like the film and whether it will make any money beyond it’s opening.

It’ll be interesting to see. Most of the reaction I’ve been hearing has been quite positive on this one, and I’d go see it again on the big screen.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:32:26 +0000

Having never read Watchmen I hated the movie. It was clearly a film made for the fans of the novel’s, and those fans alone.

Considering the mess that was 300 and now the failure (call it interesting if ye like) I do not think that director Zack Snyder is capable of telling a story.

To give this film 4 stars after saying it is “lacking in emotion and depth of feeling,” and fails to deliver any fear in a story that “revolves around fear” baffles me I must say.

If you don’t love the novels stay well clear!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:44:47 +0000

“an interesting failure” – yeah, absolutely, I think it aimed high and fell short of the mark, but at least it was aiming for something.

By: Walter Higgins

Walter Higgins — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:32:09 +0000

I may have been a bit mean giving Watchmen just 3 stars. It deserves 4. It is quite an achievement and I’m not sure anyone could have done a better adaptation. That said, it’s an interesting failure and I have a soft spot for those.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:44:55 +0000

I think we had largely the same reaction to the film (well, ok I may have enjoyed it a bit more than you did), you were able to identify in much greater detail exactly why.

My hat is off to you

By: J. Gajderowicz

J. Gajderowicz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:29:19 +0000

This is a great review, Frank. Your point about the lack of emotional interest in the film is well taken, and I agree completely. For all that I think Moore has a great sense of restraint and detachment when it comes to some things (though not satire!), he does endow his characters with emotional and psychological depths that take the reader’s interest and get her/him invested in those characters. Even Rorschach, who’s such a psycho, is a fascinating and, in some ways, an almost sympathetic character. Thanks so much for mentioning the post!