Watchmen

Gaara · March 09, 2009, 01:23:54 PM

Quote from: Carr0t;267523Saw this on Saturday and thought it was excellent! Went with a large group of friends and we universally thought it was good. Even my girlfriend, who hasn't read the book and thus was our test subject for whether the movie held up on it's own merits, loved it. Having said that, coming out of the cinema I did overhear one of the staff saying that he'd not heard anyone saying good things about it thus far. I quickly told him we all loved it, but I do wonder if a large number of people are going to see it expecting a slightly dark superhero movie, a la Dark Knight, and Watchmen simply isn't about that. The action plays a very small part to the main meat of the movie and book, which i've always seen as an interesting look at the darker sides of the human psyche.

I, as a watchmen fan, loved the movie, but I could tell the movie didn't go well with most of the "normal" audience. We even had about 12/15 people walk out of the movie and half the cinema emptied when the camera panned out in the end (the bit before the crank file part).

Did you have a lot of people walk out before the end too?

Carr0t · March 09, 2009, 02:16:49 PM

Not really. I was sat quite near the front so there may have been some I missed, but the cinema was still pretty packed when the credits started to roll and I got up and looked around.

Luminance · March 09, 2009, 04:21:30 PM

In 29 hours, I'll hopefully see the ending of this movie, can't wait

Gh0st Face Killah · March 09, 2009, 04:56:07 PM

Straight to the top of the american box office charts over the weekend.

Carr0t · March 09, 2009, 11:13:21 PM

But it is the big new release, so that's kinda to be expected. The big teller for my money will be how long it *stays* there, and how good the DVD sales are when they come out.

T-Bag · March 10, 2009, 12:52:30 AM

Right first of all, I'd never heard of this before seeing the trailer in the cinema. I had no idea what it was about before going to see it. I thought it was amazing. Loads of grity detail, great graphics, really top notch sound track.
I have to say the best aspects of this film were the way it completely ignored the traditional movie code of ethics. There was plenty of unnessesary violence towards women, a plot that even though I could see bits of it coming delivered itself at a really nice pace, with plenty to keep the viewer entertained.

That said my housemate didn't like it especially. He said it was "good" though. I imagine he needs another watch to absorb the plot.

9/10.

RizZy · April 02, 2009, 10:11:05 PM

I saw this last night, I'd wanted to read the graphic novel for ages but never got round to it, as it happens I ordered it the other day & it turned up yesterday. As for the film I thought it was awesome, the more I role the film around in my mind the more I like it, & i'll agree with most of what T-Bag had to say about it.

Finally a comic book type of film thats not targeted towards getting as many kids into the cinema as possible.

This & the Dark Knight have been just about the only 2 films I've seen at the cinema that I could happily go back & watch again.

DuVeL · April 02, 2009, 10:59:39 PM

I've watched the comic book version and waiting to go to see it in the cinema. Looking forward to it.

DuVeL · April 06, 2009, 11:23:17 PM

Some bad language.

Wolverine vs Rorschach

A few more movies about the topic.

Monster (the Thing) vs Alien (Superman).

spoong · April 13, 2009, 08:23:13 AM

Apparently in the US some bloke shot himself during the premiere. TBH, don't blame him - comics are not movies, and never will be - this proved it. Loved the comic, thought the film was not worth it.

Gibbo · April 14, 2009, 05:29:06 PM

nope boring looks the same as x-men

Gaara · April 15, 2009, 11:08:42 AM

Quote from: Gibbo;272632nope boring looks the same as x-men

I'm sorry, but imo Watchmen is a million times more complex than x-men and can absolutely not be compared.

RizZy · April 15, 2009, 11:26:00 AM

Quote from: Gaara;272724I'm sorry, but imo Watchmen is a million times more complex than x-men and can absolutely not be compared.

I was thinking the same thing, I musta been watching a differant film, xmen are ok films, but it's possibly not even fair to compare them.

T-Bag · April 15, 2009, 04:52:24 PM

Quote from: Gaara;272724I'm sorry, but imo Watchmen is a million times more complex than x-men and can absolutely not be compared.

Exactly. To compare the two shows that you've not seen Watchmen. It's a truely stunning film. It's rated 18, X-Men is rated 12. There's a reason for the difference. The target audience for X-Men is teenagers, whereas Watchmen is aimed at adults. The altered timeline and some of the aspects of the plot would go way over the heads of kids who go in wanting to watch their favourate character get into a scrap with someone else in a funny costume. Both films have their place, but they don't overlap.

Tutonic · April 17, 2009, 08:26:14 PM

Watchmen was a fantastic film - but its not as good as the book

I doubt anyone will every truly capture the book as a movie, it's not been called "unfilmable" for so long for nothing...