Watchmen

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'll read everyone's posts in a bit.

I thought it was great. Faithful to the book in important ways, deviated when it needed to. Visually, near perfect. I really liked nearly all the actors except for the old Silk Spectre, blech, she was awful and the old lady makeup was poor.

I was especially happy with the Nite Owl, yow! Just the perfect amount of geeky nice-guy nebbish and sexy hero emergence. LOVED the sex scene.

The flashbacks to older eras were spot on, and I think they pulled off the alternate universe very well.

The fight scenes were very, very good - none of the blurred darkness we seem to see a lot these days.

I'm glad they waited until now to do the film. Living in an era of actual attack and fear of war does wonders to breathe life into the story.

My one big quibble was with Veidt. That guy was tiny! I would say that they removed the whole Veidt weight training thing for that very reason. He's supposed to be both a genius and totally strong, but this guy seemed more on the skinny cunning side, and didn't exude the bearing I expected. He wasn't terrible, and if you hadn't read the book I guess it wouldn't hurt anything.



Of course GD didn't think the blue penis was any big deal. Hello, GIRTHY?

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I'll read everyone's posts in a bit.

I thought it was great. Faithful to the book in important ways, deviated when it needed to. Visually, near perfect. I really liked nearly all the actors except for the old Silk Spectre, blech, she was awful and the old lady makeup was poor.

I was especially happy with the Nite Owl, yow! Just the perfect amount of geeky nice-guy nebbish and sexy hero emergence. LOVED the sex scene.

The flashbacks to older eras were spot on, and I think they pulled off the alternate universe very well.

The fight scenes were very, very good - none of the blurred darkness we seem to see a lot these days.

I'm glad they waited until now to do the film. Living in an era of actual attack and fear of war does wonders to breathe life into the story.

My one big quibble was with Veidt. That guy was tiny! I would say that they removed the whole Veidt weight training thing for that very reason. He's supposed to be both a genius and totally strong, but this guy seemed more on the skinny cunning side, and didn't exude the bearing I expected. He wasn't terrible, and if you hadn't read the book I guess it wouldn't hurt anything.



Of course GD didn't think the blue penis was any big deal. Hello, GIRTHY?

Still yet to read the GN (though it's sitting on the coffee table) - but I thought Veidt seemed like a real weenie for being such a "superhero". Despite lack of story (from what I gather from CP's post), something never felt right about him. Like, how could he hang with such a crew and be such a wimpy looking dude?