Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I watched “Watchmen” last night and I liked it. Most of the movie was quite mature and “grown up”, as opposed to other teenager-friendly comic book-based movies like Spider Man.
Let me tell you what I didn’t like in the movie. I didn’t like the casting. All the characters, with the exception of Rorschach (Jackie Haley, whom you might remember from “Little Children”) and the Comedian and to some extent Dr. Manhattan could have used better or more suitable actors.
The plot and the ending was so-so. Although generally guessable, it was definitely much better and deeper than the usual crappy comics-based movie plot line and ending.
I was not impressed by the direction, but what do I know about movie directing?! I liked several of the sequences though (including the opening.)
The characters were waaay better developed than most movies these days, but the books (which I’m not familiar with) are probably responsible for most of that, not the writers of the movie. Incidentally, one of the writers is David Haytar, the voice actor for Snake, in the English versions of MGS series!
I liked the classic soundtracks from around the 60s (and 50s and 70s too probably!) It’s always refreshing to hear Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in movies instead of Britney Spears or whatnot.
I liked the atmosphere of the movie. Dark, disturbing (although not enough!) and very 80s.
What I liked the most was Rorschach! The guy is crazy! Think Marv and Dwight (from Sin City) blended together. The character was fantastic!
yes, most of maturness and grow-ups come from its comic books.
p.s. I think it is hyped and overrated alot, I just read 5 issues of its comic strip and resisted watching the movie but I think its overrated judging by that.