Watchmen: Blood, Latex and Rock 'n Roll

Ok, it's not exactly that, but it sounds like a great title and kinda represents my feelings over the movie. I just got back from the cinema and I am pretty excited. I can safely say that it was an excellent movie. I mean it had it all: good plot, great action, excellent cgi, cool taglines and dialog, humor, blood, more blood, hot women and silly blue dicks. If you are not excited by now I don't know when you will be.

The first part was a plot rollercoster giving us details of the various characters and situations that led to the movie's present. It actually works pretty well since you never get lost even if you never read the comic. It is very interesting to see the development of the story and at some point you start to empathize with some characters. As far as the story goes which I am not going to reveal here I have to say that I am happy. Kouvaristras (who is geekier than I am) wasn't entirely happy with the ending and got Spooky Mulder about it (something about the aliens and where the hell are they) but it really does not matter. It was a great film and everyone that I went to the cinema with fully enjoyed it from start to finish.

The soundtrack of the movie was very good and actually helped with establishing certain situations and feelings about the characters and the story. It included artists from the likes of Jimi Hendrix to Simon and Garfunkel which is very weird for a super hero movie. It worked very well nevertheless. The action was fantastic and was as much as it was needed it to be for us to enjoy it without getting bored. The movie contains a lot of gore scenes with lotsa blood which are very well done as well. At some points you are really going to enjoy mutilations, a fact that is highly disturbing if you ask me, but that's how good the action is.

In IMDB a gave it a nice round 8 which is as much I gave Dark Knight. In fact I think I enjoyed it more than Dark Knight. The pace was better, I liked the characters better and it had hotter women than weird looking S/M secretaries. Its not like someone can compare those two, other than they are both about people walking around in Latex suits, but we had the relevant conversation on the way back. Anyway...go watch it.. you will have great time!

Watchmen

Watchmen is an epic graphic novel writen by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. It has won the Hugo Award and is regarded as one of the best graphic novels ever written.
For many years it was considered as being unfilmable but that didn't stop Hollywood from trying to adapt it into a film. All past efforts though, resulted in failure and Watchmen was stuck in development hell. You can read a great article on the various developments of Watchmen and possible future problems with a war between Warner and 20th Century Fox about the rights to the film, here.

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Then, in 2006, Zack Snyder came along and made a huge succes with 300, which was based on another comic by Frank Miller. The box office numbers of "300" made the big wigs at Warner, confident enough to entrust Watchmen to Snyder.

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Being a fan of the graphic novel, I, naturally, have a great desire to watch it on the big screen. As I'm sure that the visuals of the film will be fantastic (watch the trailers in glorious quicktime), my only concern is if Snyder can capture the true essence of Watchmen. Unfortunately the film is a few months away from release, so I can do nothing but wait to discover the answer to my question.