Watchmen, for those who have some managed to ignore the reviews or trailers, is the recently released movie adaption of Alan Moore’s (Of V for Vendetta fame among other things) graphic novel. It’s been heralded as one of the first, best, and most sophistcated graphic novels, which brought the medium, intellectually, into the adult world and the literary world.
My own review: It’s good. It’s really good. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It’s as faithful to the source material as it could be. Fair warning, it’s a violent and graphic film, perhaps even a bit excessive at times, but its logical. I wish it could have been shorter, but it was no overlong and I eagerly await the director’s cut which restores a lot of the filmed, but edited scenes. It’s intelligent for a super hero film and, despite a number of the reviews, its a worthy recreation of the book, not just in its accuracy, (the ending changes being a bit more believable by my consideration), but also in its tone and method of delivery. Watchmen the novel is almost entirely flashbacks. The movies own judicious use of flashbacks (the credit title sequence in particular) was a nearly perfect adaptation.
For anyone looking for something a bit more, here are what some other people thought.
Movie Reviews:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/REVIEWS/903049997
http://blog.spout.com/2009/03/04/watchmen-review/
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/movies/06Watc.html
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/12/kevin-smith-and-the-filmcast-review-watchmen-filmcast-ep-41/
http://movies.ign.com/articles/959/959494p1.html
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