NIPPLES!

Never read the book, went and saw the movie and I was very impressed. It was really entertaining, and it was one of those movies that doesn't require you to turn your brain off to enjoy. Metacritic's 57% is quite off.

xyzzy929 you didn't see.

I think the best description of the way I feel about the movie, is that I'm sad it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. Only because I wanted so much. But I'm still completely satisfied with what I got. (Rorschach alone makes it worth it. Everything else is just icing on the cake)

And if anyone who saw it liked it in the slightest and haven't read the graphic novel, read it. It's much better.

One more comment.

I do deny the epicness of that music choice behind that scene. I absolutely love pretty much every song in the movie, but they all felt so out of place.

Who cares what you think of the movie, I saw Silk Spectre's tits...

...on IMAX.

But really, it was a damn good supplement to the comics, but I can imagine it being a lot less entertaining if you haven't read them.

I heard that this movie was about tits.

DeusPayne: You've got ot understand that hte movie takes place in the 70s and 80s. The music choices were perfect, imo. The book does a better job of making sure you know what year it is.

This is probably the most polarizing movie I've ever seen. "I LOVE IT!", "I HATE IT!". I'm with Cyanosis on every point. I thought it was fucking great, regardless of whether or not I had read the comic before. Also, I'm talking about it here instead of the forums because the forums have been damn near impossible to post in in the past 24 hours.

Hey, I saw that chick's tits.

I thought it was almost as good as you're gonna get. I enjoyed it for the opportunity to see some of the scenes in the comic imagined but it did fall short of my expectations. The film didn't have the time to really bring you into the universe with the little details and make things have as much impact.

Rorschach was too animated, he walked with a sort of attitude/swing in his shoulders and moved his head too much as he talked. I always imagined the character to be steady and deliberate in his actions. I also thought his voice had too much emotion in it, should have been more paced and monotone.

The music did feel really out of place.

I thought Patrick Wilson was great. Not only did he look just like Dan Dreiberg but his pulled off the role wonderfully.

I was a bit shocked at the scene with Rorchach and the pedophile/butcherer scene but then I realised that the mainstream audience would probably say something like "Oh they totally ripped that off of Saw" if they saw the original scene.

I wasn't too happy with Veidt, he seemed a lot more distant than the warm appearence he seemed to project in the comic.

The "Give me back my face" scene was hilarious even though it was almost perfect in comparison to the comic. It's now second to "Not the bees! Not the bees! ARRRRRGH!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

I dug it lots. I think having read the novel actually helped me appreciate it more. The movie had to (for length) cut out some details and a ton of character-building dialogue, so people coming in clean might feel it was too rushed. But if you read the novel, you can fill the holes for yourself and just appreciate the scenes they chose to do. And for those they chose to do, I thought they did a great job realizing them. Rorschach's jail scenes were exactly as I imagined them, with Haley delivering every single line perfectly.

I really liked Watchmen. It's no substitute for the book, but it can help get friends who are not big fans of reading to realize how good some graphics novels are.

i really enjoyed the movie. i didn't read the graphic novel, intentionaly, as to not ruin the movie ahead of time. i played the game shortly before going to the movie, and i don't think it add anything... at all. (i did enjoy the game though).

anyways the story at it's core is pretty amazing. i intend to read the novel now, or can anyone tell me about the "motion comic"? is it word for word the same as the novel?

because if it's word for word i may just watch that.

Rosseh, the penis wasn't really a big deal. I think it says a lot about the quality of the film that there was a blue penis just, you know, out there and there really wasn't any reaction to it by the audience I was in. When I first saw the penis I expected to see some angry yuppie-type person get up and come out.

I wasn't [u]upset[/u] by it, per se. But come on, you can't show me a blue penis and expect me not to mention it when discussing the movie. It just isn't possible.