Who Watches the Watchmen?
Let the debate begin. Let me clarify I have not watched The Watchmen yet. Why? Fear. Nothing but unabashed fear that it will be nearly three hours of my life wasted. From the trailers I believe I might be right. I have, however, taken some time to look at a different type of adaptation: The Watchmen motion comic. At first I was intrigued. I thought why this is genius why haven’t more companies authorized this type of media onslaught yet. Then as the story progressed, I realized why. Comic books are not meant to be animated, especially in this narrative story. Maybe it would have been better for DC just to bite the bullet and let some anime company buy the rights and make a feature-length movie. I’m not saying the motion comic was entirely bad, it was an original twist on an old concept but it will never, I repeat, never replace the tried and true method of actually reading a comic book, or if you prefer, graphic novel. The voice acting was just ok, but the music was predictable and somewhat of a distraction. I like to create my own soundtrack in my head when reading a comic book. In short, if you’re really bored and have few hours to kill go ahead and watch it, otherwise just pretend you did. I’d give the motion comic a five out of ten. To read the official movie review see http://www.popculturebuzz.com/movie-review-watchmen/
March 13th, 2009 at 12:29 am
It was pretty damned faithful, in fact I can’t imagine a movie being more faithful and if it was it would be really long and boring. I loved the movie and it seems like most geeks of my ilk have to, so I wouldn’t worry too much.
March 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I plan to go see it this weekend. Like you, Jessica, I’m scared. I really don’t want to waste 3 hours. Paul-I hope you’re right. I’ll let you know what I think of it.