Well, what did you guys think? Thoughts, likes, dislikes?

 

***could be spoilers below***

Well, what did you guys think? Thoughts, likes, dislikes?

 

***could be spoilers below***

 

I thought it was great!  What did YOU think?

The older version was better:

 

 

I'm verklempt.

I thought it was awful. I had never heard of the book before but after seeing the previews, I was interested. The alternate timeline with Nixon still President sounded interesting, but this movie was one of the worst superhero/comic book movies I've seen. I did like the montage at the beginning showing the history of the heroes and how their America was different, that was pretty cool. However, I kept getting confused by the long drawn out flashbacks....they don't really specify who is a "2nd version" of a particular hero and who is the original from 1940...like the Comedian. After all the flashbacks and the long, drawn out soft core porn in the flying device....they give you a rushed ending where the richest man somehow now has a Pokemon dog following him around and he's hiding out at a Memphis Pyramid in Antartica.

I agree with Gordon. I never read the book or anything but the previews looked awesome and I waited months to see this movie. Unfortunately it was nothing like I thought it would be and I left disappointed. It was long and the story was drawn out to a point that I almost got up and left. Seeing that chick in a tight costume was awesome but the producer could've left the constant scenes of blue penis out of the movie.

Well, what did you guys think? Thoughts, likes, dislikes?

 

***could be spoilers below***

 

I thought it was great!  What did YOU think?

 

MTS, we all know why you liked the movie so much!  :-D

I agree with Gordon. I never read the book or anything but the previews looked awesome and I waited months to see this movie. Unfortunately it was nothing like I thought it would be and I left disappointed. It was long and the story was drawn out to a point that I almost got up and left. Seeing that chick in a tight costume was awesome but the producer could've left the constant scenes of blue penis out of the movie.

 

LOL.  It was purposely set to make you feel like you were in the past.

 

Now if it was breast on the screen it would be OK??  :?

 

There were 43 minutes cut from the movie IIRC. 

 

All I can say is Blu-Ray DVD.

i was thinking of seeing it on imax --- is it worth it?

 

i was thinking of seeing it on imax --- is it worth it?

 

Of course!

oh of course from you, but can anyone give a little less biased opinion?!!  :laugh:

I'll preface this by saying that I'm a HUGE fan of comics (it's my prefered form of entertainment, it's a semi-profession).  I'm also a huge fan of Moore and Gibbons' Watchmen comic book. 

 

That said, I don't think I'm fan of the movie.  It had it's moments, but for the most part, it was a plodding disaster.  I will say that I can respect Snyder's effort to make the movie as much like the comic book as he could, but as an experiment, it fails.  What he should have done was adapt the book to fit the screen, not literally film the book for the screen.

 

The dialogue was also pretty awful in places, too, which is a real shame because if Jeffery Dean Morgan had more to work with, his performance as the Comedian could've rivaled Jackie Earle Haley's Rorschach.  Instead, I cringed at every other line that came out his mouth.  It was such a waste of perfect casting.

 

And the infamous scene between Nite Owl and the Silk Spectre in the Archie?  It was as if Snyder was trying to film the most awkward, poorly filmed love scene in all of cinema. 

 

One of things I thought I'd really enjoy going into it was the soundtrack that I'd heard some things about.  I hated it!  It was so obvious and heavy handed.  Using "The Times They Are A Changin'" during the opening titles was so obvious, I felt like I was being talked down to.  And Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" felt really out of place.  Which is strange because Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake opened with Johnny Cash's "When the Man Comes Around" which was probably one of the greatest title sequences I've ever seen.

 

On the positive side, the special effects were all well done.  I liked that Dr. Manhattan was CGI, something I didn't think I'd like going in.  CGI can't capture human motion perfectly quite yet, and I though that was actually beneficial in this character's case.  It made him stand out from the others that much more. 

 

The casting was very well done, too.  Everyone fit their roles and did the best job they could with the material they were provided with.  Haley was the obvious standout.  His performance was very good. 

 

The costumes were all nice to look at.  That's basically my review in a nutshell.  The style was there, but the substance was lacking.

I found the dialogue to be a bit off, and the sexual gaffs and scenes really turned me off to the movie's plot. Too distracting, and it added at least 10-20 minutes to an otherwise long movie.