[a fool in paradise]

Snyder enriches the mix by riffing on alt '80s periodicity — a simulated McLaughlin Group with Pat Buchanan opining on the nature of Dr. Manhattan is particularly funny — and a strategic '60s soundtrack. Indeed, the credit sequence which scores a frozen tableaux history of the Watchmen and their precursors the Minutemen to the young Bob Dylan declaiming "The Times They Are A-Changing" is far wittier filmmaking than any of the movie's excessively juicy fisticuffs or the escalating pandemonium Snyder orchestrates as Watchmen staggers toward its climactic Armageddon.

Shouldn't they be playing Hendrix's cover of All Along The Watchtower? That song factored into the plot more than The Times They Are A Changing...

[devane617]

I have a ticket for the first IMAX showing here in DALLAS. I will not read a review until I have seen the movie....

[NoLibZone]

"Watchmen (which first appeared early in Ronald Reagan's second term) could be most simply described as an apocalyptic sci-fi murder mystery cum love story set in an alternate universe where masked superheroes are real, albeit largely retired, thanks to Richard Nixon, who is enjoying his fifth term as president — in part because the greatest of the Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan, a mutated atomic scientist who glows like blue kryptonite and possesses unlimited cosmic powers, settled the Vietnam War in a week."

LMAO!!!!

[JHBowden]

Saw it yesterday, I’d give it a 9/10. Beautiful visuals, awesome characters, and an engaging, detailed story. I particularly liked the combination of camp and nihilism, especially the comic-like portrayals of public figures. Didn’t even notice the slo-mo action, it all seemed fluid.

Only three small complaints though—

1) Scene by scene the movie is perfect, but the pacing between the events prevents an emotional climax where it is needed in several places.

2) The soundtrack could have been more original. I liked the use of Philip Glass/Koyannisqatsi though.

3) Anti-Americanism goes with the territory with this kind of movie. But the green Kool-Aid about free energy— the writers must know nothing about physics (conservation of energy, thermodynamics) along with economics (opportunity costs, economies of scale, etc). This stuff made me cringe, not the buckets of blood.

[Buggman]

Saw it Friday with my fiance. It was a mixed bag.

Positives: The soundtrack was spot-on perfect, the characters were true to the graphic novel, and the visuals were fantastic.

Negatives: They wasted a lot of time trying to up the sex-and-violence factor. I really didn't need the five-minute porno between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre dropped into the middle of the movie--especially when so many other sequences actually critical to developing the story felt rushed.

Oh, and I was sad that they dropped the faux-Cthulhu from the climax--that was my favorite part of the original story.

Shalom.

[dr_who]

Watched it. Nothing else looked interesting. In a word... pointless.