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...
“and a strategic ‘60s soundtrack”
Let me guess. “All Along the Watchtower”?
Weird. Didn’t see your last line...
Actually All Along the Watchtower comes at a critical point in the movie, and it is perfect.
The music integration is perfect in my opinion.
Actually the right wing Rorschach is the only character whose integrity is remaining at the end (in spite of his hang ups).
Moore did not intend it, but I see the alternate 1985 as what the U.S. would have been like if Reagan had not been elected. Boy he would have a cow if he heard me say it to him in public.
The source material is not perfect, but it is the first comic to really go after the violent underside of masked vigilantes.
I got to say that I loved the movie. Not as good as Dark Knight of Spider-Man II, but comparable to Batman Begins and Spider-Man I.