Sunday, March 8, 2009

Watchmen Movie review ..coming soon

Okay I saw Watchmen at the first available showing, I'll post my review here as soon I edit out all my obviously fan girl elitism and references to Twilight fans drinking bleach.

in the meantime enjoy :

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  1. Jesus RonMarch 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM

    Cant wait to read your review.

    So far the most spot on review I read has been from Wired. What is it with most film critics and Snyder - he seems to be universally despised.

    http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/review-watchmen.html

    "It is obvious that Synder reveres the comic; if he didn't, Dr. Manhattan's blue penis wouldn't be visible for much of his time on screen. (That takes, literally, balls to pull off.) Manhattan himself is a triumph of CGI and compassion, easily the most sympathetic character of the bunch in the film, just as in the comic. While his alienation on Mars is shorter in Snyder's hands, it is still, as in the comic, a wonderful respite from the total mess of humanity.

    But humanity is what Snyder's Watchmen needs. Moore had many ways to infuse his characters and story with it, from metafictional biography excerpts from Hollis Mason's Under the Hood to subnarratives like Tales From the Black Freighter (the pirate story that was utterly excised from the movie but will show up as a stand-alone DVD and possibly be spliced into a director's cut).
    Snyder pushes, ironically enough, in the opposite direction in his R-rated movie, leaning heavily on gore and excess in ways that Moore and Gibbons did not. In the process, the film too easily becomes a horror spectacle rather than a social text, more Dawn of the Dead than Dr. Strangelove."

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