Watchmen (late review, just rewatched!)

The un filmable has been filmed and I love it. My best friend gave me a copy of the book for Christmas, a few months before the movies release. I could not put it down, after finishing I cannot remember being so excited for a movie. When tickets went on sale I ordered them in advance, was at the theater early, I did about everything but dress up!

Visually the movie blew me away, its like the book jumped off the pages into real life. This is what impressed me the most, Snyder has a real passion for the source material and wants to be as faithful in every aspect, same deal with “300”. You can pause certain scenes in Watchmen, pull out the book and 100% the same in the book and on screen. The other thing that really impressed me visually were the characters, I could not imagine anyone else in the roles chosen. Not only did they look great, they also were well acted. From the emotionless Dr.Manhattan to the brutal Rorschach (who makes The Joker look like Mary Poppins).

The movie stays very true to the book; I call myself a fanboy of the novel, but not to the point where I will dissect the film to find something to loath. Sure it had some things taken out, but it had to, overall it’s very true to the source material. I think that’s a reason it did so bad box office, because everyone who had not read the book thought they were going to see a generic super hero movie. When in reality there is nothing happy about Watchmen, its dark, it's somewhat twisted, and it’s violent much more violent than the book which some fans have complained about but it did not bother me. I really did not like that they took Hollis Masons death out of the theatrical cut, thank goodness they added it to the DC.

Overall: I think that Watchmen was almost made primarily for the fans, because if you have not read the book I can see that it would be really confusing for a lot. But I have read the book so it was easy to follow; I loved everything about it other than the few tweaks here and there...and the occasionally corny song in the soundtrack.

**** out of 5