Yeah, so I saw ‘Watchmen the motion picture’ in Imax the weekend it opened up.  Leading up to this screening I was torn: my inner 12-year-old was doing backflips while the rest of me was filled with the fear of being embarrassed fo’ life.

‘Watchmen’ has been my favorite book since I was 13–no shit. Annual readings for more than a decade continue to pay off. The book is spectacular.

My initial reaction to the movie was that they had cut out all the ‘man on the street’ stuff and replaced it with gratuitous sex and violence resulting in satire. I did not like that. Very disrespectful..

Having sat-on-it for a little bit I am contented (and excited!) to wait for ‘Watchmen the ultimate DVD experience’ (which I will purchase, probably).…complete with ‘Tales of the Black Freighter and ‘Under the hood’…BASICALLY, my opinion of the film will go one way or another depending on whether they put the ‘man on the street’ stuff back in. Not expecting to be very happy in the end.

Gonna nitpick via free association here for a bit…

Dan Dreiberg was way too studly. Without his paunch he isn’t NEARLY as impotent. Costume looked awful—SUPPOSED to look kind of goofy with complicated hood, NOT supposed to look like Batman. Right? You tell me…Owl ship was great. Laurie was serviceable as an actress, Sally Jupiter was a TRAVESTY—both looked good dressed in fetishwear.

Rorschach WAS ONLY good because the actor was amazing. Voice wasn’t quite right, mask looked terrible—whatever happened to the Kitty Genovese story?  Liked Adrian VERY much, but missed the purple. Purple, Kings, Duh. Jesus, Snyder. Enjoyed soundtrack and score very much. My Chemical Romance did a good job rocking out to ‘desolation row’, just like how I used to after reading the first chapter of ‘Watchmen’. Good for them.

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I got nothing.

-Ben

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