This is going to be a short blog. Here are the pros and cons of the much anticipated, highest grossing, new superhero movie, Watchmen:PROS:
-Zac
k Snyder's cool flair for visuals
k Snyder's cool flair for visuals-The faithfulness to the book
-Jackie Earl Haley as "Rorschach" and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as "The Comedian"
-Great story with a killer ending
CONS:
-ALMOST 3 FREAKIN' HOURS LONG! (Should've been broken up into a couple of movies like LOTR or the final Harry Potter)
-(WARNING: slight exaggeration ahead!) 2 and a half hours of that was wasted on a unnessecarily long and somewhat silly sex scene
-Malin Akerman as "Silk Spectre II" and Patrick Wilson as "Nite Owl II" (man, they were awful)
-Unless you've read the book, some of the subtleties of character development and shot choices may be lost on a few people; again, if split into a few movies more time could've been spent on these things
CONCLUSION: Read the book, which is absolutely phenomenal; then watch the movie purely to see the scenes come to life, some of which were taken directly from the panels in the graphic novel.
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Speaking of which, what is your favorite movie based on a book? Did you read the book, or did you just see the movie like an uncultured swine?
8 comments:
I need to find someone to borrow Watchmen from, I just can't stand to spend all that money on a book I know I'll only read once. Although I suppose it would give me cool points for owning it. Maybe it is worth it...
My favorite movie made from a book is the Princess Bride. While the book is still much better than the the movie the movie still did a good job at capturing it's sense of humor. (Probably because the author or the book also wrote the screenplay, I think.)
I'm going to see Watchmen this Thursday, hopefully it will be worth $10 and 3 hours of my life.
Yes Princess Bride is by far the best movie based on a book-
also- I think you're giving watchmen more credit than it deserves-
that is all.
Jessica: if you ever read a book more than once, than this is one that you would want to read at least twice, especailly having seen the movie now
Janelle: I think I only liked it because of the parts that were directly from the book. it was cool to see those parts in film
Rorschach looks just like steve nash from the suns.
copy and paste the link cause i couldnt get it to work like a real link
http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nashrorscach.jpg
weird
That song "Hallelujah" or whatever it's called is now totally ruined for me.
The more I think about it, the less I liked the Watchmen film... Which makes me sad...
The book has so many subtleties and beautiful changes in voice and medium that makes it both unique and fascinating. The film lacked any subtlety, whatsoever. AND the movie's music choices completely brought me out of the film's world (like when "99 Luftballoons" started playing).
One of the worst was Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"...Great song, poorly used
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