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[mimesere]

Watched the Watchmen. Enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would, given how much I don't...uh, love the comic. I don't dislike the comic, but mostly the feeling I come away with after reading it is, "Wow, Alan Moore, you don't think your readership is that bright, do you?" and the movie made me go all :D :D :D :D at it.

The soundtrack was awesome, with the exception of the Leonard Cohen "Hallelujah," which I love but which was used to unfortunate comic effect.

The title sequence is getting kudos, and rightfully so, as it packs a ridiculous amount of information into a relatively short amount of time.

I liked it! I will probably talk more about it later, but right now I have to sleep, because I have to be at work soon. I leave you with this, though:

Jackie Earle Haley was amazing, but the trio of Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, and Carla Gugino was what sold me on the characters as people, largely because I found the whole loss of identity thing to be very compelling.

Good job, Zack Snyder. You're 2.5 for 3 with me.

Comments

[donella.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Dan wonderful? I liked the whole movie, but Patrick Wilson's portrayal of Dan really stood out for me.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Dan was awesome; he was so...*nice* (and I do mean that as a compliment) and he just wanted to do good things and beat up crime and hit it with a supremely hot lady and he wanted his friends to be okay and he made me smile a lot.

[softplaces.livejournal.com]

LOL seriously, that was the funniest sex scene I've seen pretty much ever! I loved the opening sequence though, but I'm signficantly less enamoured with a signficant portion of the music video montage-ing - it started off lovelily but after a bit it just felt like a way out of actually writing a narrative.

Honestly though I loved the comic, and I wasn't blown away by the film, which is generally a good thing book-to-movie-wise because it meant that it wasn't painful either. I don't know, though, it wasn't badly done but it wasn't well done either. It was exciting enough, though, and it's wonderful to see the characters on-screen (fuck, the girls are really hot!), but I found the action a bit unsatisfying and ridiculous. But then again I was hoping for a visual orgasm after the 300, which Watchmen, uh, wasn't.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

The sex scene came really close to hitting my embarrassment squick buttons.

See, I didn't love 300, because I spent most of the time going, "this is TOO stylized for me," where Watchmen, while stylized, was still in the realm of the real and that helped me deal with the silly violence a lot more.

[kestrelsan.livejournal.com]

LaT and I just saw it yesterday and I *really* liked it. I had zero knowledge about the comic or storyline going in, so I was amazed at how much the movie conveyed--I'm sure I was missing a lot, but it fleshed out an extremely complex world in not a lot of space. And I loved how it evoked the whole time period while getting the AU aspect across. So two thumbs up from me.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

:D

I think Watchmen is worth reading, but it's like a lot of Great Novels for me, where I'm reading it for the influence it had further down the line more than for the text itself.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it great? I missed Laurie being snarky and humorous (when she gets to Mars, in the book she throws up and calls Jon a stupid bastard), but otherwise MA did a good job, despite looking like a shampoo advert.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee. She did look like she was selling shampoo.

*tacklehugs you just because*

[farwing.livejournal.com]

I kind of loved the whole "Hallelujah" thing precisely because it was so ridiculous. But I realize I am odd. I really enjoyed the movie, and I have not yet read the graphic novel.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be ridiculous (or as ridiculous as it was) or not, and then I just felt kind of uncomfortable because Dan and Laurie are my favorites and I didn't want them to be mockable.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Upon consideration, it probably wasn't supposed to crack me up as much as it did. But it didn't feel like when I was cracking up that I was mocking Dan and Lauri so much as laughing at the film. Does that make any sense? Because I totally think Dan and Lauri are awesome.

[vampyreranger.livejournal.com]

I was really impressed with it. I completely agree about the title sequence. Zack Snyder rocked it for me. I liked the ending "practical joke" better than the one in the comics. Jackie Earle Haley is such love for me.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I liked the movie ending WAY better than the book's, because it was both more plausible to the people in the movie world and more...enforceable? I guess is the word. It made sense as a deterrent, more so than the um. Yeah. Squid.

[latxcvi.livejournal.com]

Jackie Earle Haley was amazing, but the trio of Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, and Carla Gugino was what sold me on the characters as people, largely because I found the whole loss of identity thing to be very compelling.

ITA. It actually makes me kind of sadface that Malin Akerman's getting slammed because Laurie felt real to me. Carla Gugino was fantastic and I wish there'd been more of her, and I kind of want to draw sparkly hearts around Patrick Wilson for making Dan so likable, even as he compromised. And yeah, Jackie Earle Haley was phenomenal.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

It makes me sad as well, because I *felt* for Laurie, more than I did for anyone else in that movie.

But yeah, Dan and Laurie are my favorites, so I'm stoked that they got the awesome treatment they deserved.