"I didn't get it"
Not knowing anything about Watchmen before seeing this film, I had high hopes. But those were quickly dashed by a plot I didn't understand. I would write a quick outline of the plot, but I didn't get it at all. Something about Superheroes, that weren't Super they were Cops that 'masked up' to be like the bad guys who were also wearing masks. They gave themselves stupid names, collectively known as Watchmen, and then were outlawed by the President of the USA for some reason or other. So they have all retired and are now leading normal lives.
That is apart from a guy called Rorschach, who is a vigilante type bloke. Another guy who has his own line of toys and is publicly known as hero by everybody. Then a big blue guy who looked like a mutated smurf and spoke about as much sense. Though this guy does have some powers after some weird experiment went a little wrong.
The whole premise of the story seemed to be about pulling a couple of so called heroes out of retirement and getting them back into the fight, Silk Spectre II and Night Owl II. Oh and avoiding total annihilation of the world by nuclear bombs, though that seems to be a side story that is going on.
Perhaps this is a fan boy film or something, because I certainly lost the will to carry on living while watching this and I like most things to do with this sort of genre. Though just lately I haven't been following the crowd with my likes, preferring Ironman to say Batman etc. This I am not sure which crowd I would be following if I had of liked it, ubber nerds, anoraks, not sure what a collective name for Watchmen fans would be. But if this film is anything to go by I think you need to take drugs to enjoy it, and then perhaps the big blue smurf man might be interesting. I can just imagine being stoned or drunk watching this and finding it good, pity I wasn't - stone-cold sober unfortunately.
Some of the action/fight scenes were good to be fair, but few and far between. When things kicked off it was done well, which is why it was a pity they were so sparse.
I didn't understand the mask of Rorschach how it kept moving on its own, though as a character he came across the best. I didn't understand why these people appeared stronger than normal people; when they weren't supposed to have any super powers. I didn't understand why the Atomic countdown clock was close to obliterating the world, why Silk Spectre II dressed like a tart, why Moth Man or whatever he called himself went nutty. Why somebody would shoot a pregnant woman. So many questions left unanswered. The best bloke and the one with serious potential 'The Comedian' gets whacked at the beginning. But whether he was good or bad, I haven't got the faintest idea.
The only one that made any real sense from a Superhero perspective was the mutated smurf Dr Manhattan, but he was in a world of his own - literally in fact when he pissed off to Mars. He can see the future just not at the moment; otherwise he would have given the ending to the film away.
Are these supposed to be antihero's or something? Does the graphic novel/book make any more sense than the film?
Oh the big blue smurf gets his cock out now and then. Then gets modest and covers up with pants on times, wears a suit for formal occasions. Why he walks around naked I don't know. But if he could mold his particles and clone himself then why didn't he shorten a leg for a bit more padding down there?
The big blue smurf also has a target on his head, why .. again I don't know. But he drew it, for some reason. I think it means he is part of the Watchmen. But then nobody else had a target on their head, so perhaps he was just making it easier for criminals to aim their guns, fifty points for a bull's-eye!
Direction/editing/visuals and all that, didn't matter in the end -at least not to me. When you don't understand the story, these sorts of things don't count for much. I don't even know if the acting was good or bad, because I got lost with the story. Considering this is the same Director (Zack Snyder) who did the 300, the two films seem worlds apart. Though similar in action sequences on times, stop/go slow motion type thing. But then shouldn't expect too much from the man that did the revamp of Dawn of the Dead I suppose.
I didn't know what to expect, but I wasn't expecting this by any stretches of the imagination. Dark, dreary, senseless and amazingly irritating on times - especially with the hippy music sound track crap. I don't know what I have watched. An alternate reality with a different history and timeline, which should have been intriguing. Or did somebody pop at bit too much LSD, go on a wacky trip and decide to make a film. Not sure what I have witnessed to be honest, whatever it was I openly admit I didn't understand it and I didn't get it at all.
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