Review: Watchmen

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Review: Watchmen

Written by Loserly

Saturday, 14 March 2009 16:40

Watching The Watchmen made me feel alive. Not ‘I am capable of breathing oxygen’ alive. The type of alive that Laurie felt on page 22 of volume 12 of the comic.

“Oh, it’s sweet. Being alive is so damn sweet.”

If anything can be said regarding the comics, it’s that they were written for fans of comics. If anything can be said of the movie, it’s that it was made for fans of The Watchmen. Is this bad for regular movie-going audiences? Not if they possess a modicum of intellectual prowess. Not if they’ve ever put together a jigsaw puzzle. Not if they can tell that I’m using incomplete sentences. For someone who is able to follow a story more complicated than a nursery rhyme or a Spiderman movie plot, then this movie should be wildly entertaining.

As one critic put it, it’s a lot of movie for your buck. Snyder did decide to make many of the scenes more violently action packed and less verbosely introspective for the very reason of entertaining a larger audience. He stayed true to the comic in most ways he could, and the ways in which he did not, he still managed to address with small nods on screen. For critics to say this story was TOO involved, TOO elaborate, and TOO convoluted to make a good movie, well, it’s akin to saying a chocolate chocolate chunk cookie has TOO much chocolate to be a good cookie.

The comic The Watchmen is not about good versus evil. It’s not about good guys versus bad guys. It’s not about costumed heroes being superhuman, even when they’ve been atomically disintegrated. It’s about them being very, very human. It’s also about every aspect of humanity- even the gritty, complicated, confused, and plain unfair way that we as humans can perceive and interact with the world. It doesn’t matter if we’re highly intelligent or from terribly disturbing backgrounds; how we choose to interact with this world can be as beneficial or detrimental as we want it to be. No masks needed.

But there are masks. And masks, much like non-linear storylines, generate intrigue. Masks worn by characters, and masks donned by actors playing these characters. My one gripe in this casting was that Ozymandias did not physically represent his character in the comic. Otherwise, this cast was very well put together and did a great job portraying these comic book legends. I won’t get into too many details regarding the film and how it compares to the movie for the mere reason I despise spoilers with every ounce of my being. I will, however, reiterate that this film far surpassed my expectations as a fan of the comic. That’s not to say the film was perfect. Many people called the making of this film something that ’should never have happened’, but as far as I can tell, that’s a defeatist attitude. This movie was made, and Snyder decided that as much as he loved Rorschach, he could only follow his advice for so far in making a Hollywood movie. I mean, we know how far that advice carried Rorschach himself.