Watchmen!

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:

-Zack 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.

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?