After all the build-up, I still liked it a lot. The casting was good - no big names, but they filled their parts very well, especially Jackie Earle Haley (sp?) as Rorschach and the actor who played Nite-Owl. Silk Spectre is very easy on the eyes. From the pre-release photos, I originally thought the actor who playez Ozymandias was too young and miscast, but I thought he was actually very good. The action sequences are very well done. It very closely follows the book, except (avoiding spoilers here) some changes to the end which I thought worked betterand makes more dramatic sense in context. Good score. It's interesting how many press reviews are negative, saying it follows the book too closely (whereas fanboys are saying it's not close enough) - I thought it was an intelligent adaptation of the graphic novel - I've read some synopses of earlier attempts to adapt the book, and I think it was good that Snyder showed respect for the original material. Some original elements were curtailed (like all the interaction between the newsstand guy and the comic-book reader), but jeez, the movie was long enough they had to cut some stuff out.

I thought it was well-worth the price of my ticket, and was not a wasted afternoon. I'll probably see it a second time. I'll also probably buy the DVD to see the extras (including the animated "Black Freighter" sequence.

After all the build-up, I still liked it a lot. The casting was good - no big names, but they filled their parts very well, especially Jackie Earle Haley (sp?) as Rorschach and the actor who played Nite-Owl. Silk Spectre is very easy on the eyes. From the pre-release photos, I originally thought the actor who playez Ozymandias was too young and miscast, but I thought he was actually very good. The action sequences are very well done. It very closely follows the book, except (avoiding spoilers here) some changes to the end which I thought worked betterand makes more dramatic sense in context. Good score. It's interesting how many press reviews are negative, saying it follows the book too closely (whereas fanboys are saying it's not close enough) - I thought it was an intelligent adaptation of the graphic novel - I've read some synopses of earlier attempts to adapt the book, and I think it was good that Snyder showed respect for the original material. Some original elements were curtailed (like all the interaction between the newsstand guy and the comic-book reader), but jeez, the movie was long enough they had to cut some stuff out.

I thought it was well-worth the price of my ticket, and was not a wasted afternoon. I'll probably see it a second time. I'll also probably buy the DVD to see the extras (including the animated "Black Freighter" sequence.

That about sums up my feelings about it as well. I'm not a huge fan of the of the comics, so I didn't have any hang ups about adhering to the original too closely and I thought the end was a definite improvement. The action sequences were real flinch-inducers; the most brutal comic book violence yet. I can't put my finger on exactly was missing, but it didn't quite bowl me over. All in all, a decent action movie.

The action sequences were real flinch-inducers; the most brutal comic book violence yet.

Yeah, they didn't downplay the idea that Nite-Owl and Silk Specter were enjoying the fights a little too much - it was like foreplay for them. Like the book, the film suggests the reasons the masks had for becoming superheros weren't all that healthy.

The fight scenes were staged by my old Jeet Kune Do teacher, BTW - Damon Caro, who also did the fights for "300". Very talented guy.

I never even heard of this movie until I went home on leave (just got back earlier this week) and saw a commercial for it. I've also never heard of the graphic novel or comics books (not really my thing). The trailer looked pretty good and I enjoy movies like X-Men, so do you think that for somoene that knows nothing about the story at all that this will be worth seeing?

I can actually see it for free if they bring it here to Kuwait (which they probably will), but its a matter of spending the time to see it as opposed to spending money.

What do you guys think?

I want to see this movie, A.S.A.P. But March 28 is the opening day at Japan.

So.....*sigh*.

Just got back myself. From the standpoint of never reading the comic (something I wanted to avoid before seeing it) I enjoyed the movie. Good computer effects and costuming. There were a few things I think they could of done better (I thought the Make-up to make The Comedian and Sally Jupiter older could have been MUCH better)

Now we can all wait for people yelling how Zack Snyder ruined there childhood by changeing the ending

Icarus

The comic was a watershed event for me. I'm unable to get to watch it until next weekend, which is killing me.

We're going to check it out next weekend!

I watched the 12:01 a.m. showing Thursday night/Friday morning. No boos at the end. Neither were there cheers. I applauded. I yelled during my favorite scenes. But this movie was in essence the comic book in moving pictures, caption by caption, frame by frame, like a flip-book. I didn't care. It was a great flip-book. Squidless or not, great movie. Gore hounds will enjoy the fight scenes. But I'll always wonder what Terry Gilliam would have done with the material. I have a copy of the script TG had planned to film. Very different from this version, which was virtually a copy of the book. Still, great.

AC

P.S. Three of my SAT students were reading the WM graphic novel before class started. Some snippets of the conversations:

"I didn't understand the movie."

"The X-Men was better."

"There was too much talking."

"I've read the book ten times, so I'll see the movie ten times."

P.P.S. I've seen the movie two times so far. Read the book at least twenty times. So I'm with the last geek. I'll just have to see the movie 18 more times.

We saw Watchmen today. I enjoyed the bloody mess of it....I'm weird...I know. I had not read any of this. My comment at the end when a few movie goers were lamenting about the lack of squid....was "what squid?" Ya would have thought I was be-heading kittens....the world stopped...everyone stared....I just laughed....talk about making a spectacle of one's self.