Daniel Coburn

I was able to go a midnight showing on Thursday with my Brother-in-law to see the Watchmen.

A couple of things offend me about the whole marketing/release of this movie.  First they always refer to the best selling graphic novel, when it was originally a twelve part macro series.  I know this because I have the 12 originals in my collection (no I don’t collect anymore this is from when I was in high school).  Second I was pretty astonished at all of the interviewers that said it stuck to the comics too well.  I find this funny because what is one of the first things someone does for a movie? Create the story and storyboards, how simple just staple the pages up on the wall and done!

I will say I dug out my books to page through them after seeing the movie, it’s been a long time since I’d seen them.  And sure enough I paged through them and the movie was very visually accurate to the book, so I was really impressed by that.  They did make some changes to the story, and cut out a few things (think cast-a-way), but overall they story remained very true to it’s origin’s.  That made me surprisingly happy.

If you’ve never read the Watchmen, I think it could be a hard movie.  It’s very long and the characters are very deep.  It’s incredibly dark and they depicted violence visually unlike some of the comic books.  I will warn you that if you are not in to gore, sexuality, a naked blue man (and yes NAKED), and violence than this movie might not be for you.

Out of 5 stars, I give it a 4.5.