WATCHMEN (2009)

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"An extraordinary experience that captures every picture in its novel and plunges it into this perfect masterpiece. Another way of saying it - once again - Zack makes a gift for another great graphic novel."

My heart is beating. i step into the theater and my heart is still beating. I can't afford to mess this movie with the stressfull, yet joyfull, momment I am having. but as my excitment continues on showing the previews go fast and I am sitting down looking at the big yello screen blazoning the great warner brothers sign and telling me that the movie i waited for from 2 years and have read its exciting novel is just on the starting point. my excitment is amazingly showing and my heart, oh my heart, is still beating.

2 years ago, I was introduced to a movie with a poster that had a stupid man with another person hitting him. I still remember my first impression:"EWW." but then the posters kept on showing the real mystery under the movie and the trailers made me crack up waiting for this piece of art to come out. arround 5 months ago i ordered a copy of the book and I didn't get it till like 1 month -or so- later because of it's unavailbility. I started sinking my teeth into this book. reading.

CHAPTER ONE: Rorsach gets to the appartment of edward blake and so the mystery of killing masked heroes start. and so the charachters show a good attitude and the fact that i am not wrong when I picked a 20 dollar book to buy and keep. rorsach goes to nite owl II to warn him and so he does go to all the other watchmen (since that was the name of the masked heroes back then) to warn them and give them the waring that someone is planning a murder to all costumed heros.

CHAPTER TWO: get to know the great comedian after had died and throughout what others think of him and how will they remember him. sure he killed a woman with a baby in her uterus. sure he tried to rape a woman. sure he killed many more people in strikes and wars. but he knew the actual fact that society is the main joke and he represented it with making the world we live in a little too much of a comedy more than the drama. he knew that masked superheroes are nothing close to working. But oh well, everything he did was in the past.

CHAPTER THREE: you're officially introduced to dr. manhattan and his second girlfriend, also known as SLIK SPERKET II.both of them are maked heros and dr manhattan seems to be the only one to have any power between all the watchmen after he got struck in an experiment-gone-wronge typr of situations. his girl leaves him afte they get into a fight and so comes again and much more introduced, NITE OWL II. NITE OWL II is the person who had worked as a superhero and wanted to settle down so he quit the whole superhero thingy.

CHAPTER FOUR: BACK to dr. Manhattan, he made a first ever interview with a broadcasting company which introduced him to all the people outside his life and showed him to many many others who had never beleived that he exists. after one of the reporters accuses him of giving cancer to many people DR. manhattan goes to mars after he transports himslef.

I really wanted to continue my whole reliving every chapter thing but that's all I rememberd in that momment where the wb SIGN WAS ON THE SCREEN. A GOOD REVIEW AND THE START OF THE COMIC BOOK. and so does the movie starts by portraying every scene out of the book in a great way. so I wont have to add to wat i remember except some of the stuff I think are pretty important, like the fact that they had to stop there vigalante life as superheros and keep everything to the government. also I still have to tell you that this would be called the second genenration of the minutmen (or watchmen obviously). and watchmen seems to have it's explosions in a fake 1985 were these masked people are ready to give out there life to save humanity, which according to the scientists, is only six minutes to midnight, and where everyone is in crazy momments and are really stressed because the end is really nigh because of the consideration of a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.

I had all that in my mind and of course, the ending which i didn't want to blazon for anyone as a spoiler. the movie starts with the main starting fight in the book, the fight between the comedian and the unknown killer. great fight. unforgettable and unmissable. I loved how they mixed the classic and classy at the same time music with the fight that usually is atacked by monstrous songs and big music effects for the background. since that second I easily had fell in love with the movie as a movie and as a representative to the graphic novel which was technically only better because it had some more scenes and I actually had much much more time than only 3 hrs to understand the whole thing and enjoy it at the same time. so for anyone who actually wants to have a memory of who and what watchmen really is about, then I recommend watching it again cause that would bring you into a much more high level of understanding the story and what's going through with the novel and why is it considered as a great novel among many more who wanted its place in time's first hundred novels of the twentieth century.

and so the movie starts following every single shot I wanted from the book and making the unmakable masterpiece clap its hands to who made it perfectly seem as noir and as good as the book was. not much of the scenes that I wanna start talking about because I know that if I wanna start with one scene I will never stop speaking about this movie because It makes sense that every scene was too perfect to miss talking about and my review would become another book in your hands to read about the movie representing the novel. SO i'll stop before ill stop before I start and hit my off button before hitting play. LOLz.

And so the story continues with actors that are giving there best to make sure they keep this movie loyal to the novel. and the characters are an important part of the story because each one of them is supposed to make the story go his way or her (in the case if SS). anyways, a too much perfect acting was preformed by all the actors. I think the hardest masked heros to portray were rorsach and the comedian. but both actors did a great just preforming their parts in the story and showing how loyal they are to the actual novels characters more than just showing off that they are what they are and going off the character. a perfect portrayal of the novel had to come with a great representation of watchmen itself and the guys did a fine job in making the unmakable masterpiece pleased by its representation.

And what can I still say even more about the great directing done by the great VISIONARY DIRECTOR (no more fighting and saying "oh he's not visionary") Zack Snyder. of course I really can't say a thing because I really don't think any directing could top the great one through this. the time and place were preformed in a major great way. everything was just too perfect and everything was in order just like the novel and totally making it so real that I don't think anyone could go beyond it. the great use of music right in the exact time was too perfect to be true. I kept having that smile that gave anyone in the theater that was looking at me a great, true, theory of what my impressions would be of this master movie. zack did a great job and an exclamation mark to anyone who didn't get it.

Another thing I want to talk about beriefly is the visuals: easily and totally agreeable with everyone, zack snyder brings the visuals to a whole new level of thinking. too many great visuals I don't want to talk about to not spoil them but a great way of making you feel good is the fact that if you really did not have that maturity level to watch watchmen, understand it, take its moral thinkings about society, and enjoy it, then you will be able to enjoy most of the great visuals that gives you a fist that is remarkable in the cinematic history. great visuals and I went to watch it again just for the visuals and a third time for a memorabilia showtime. LOL.

remarkable thing I've heard that made me laugh just thinking that these people are thinking of them. I really herd the blue penis joke:"oh god there is a penis shown in a rated R movie. holy crap it is the end of the world." also I have heard the other joke:" this movie is not for kids" (notice the rated r sign on the poster and in the movie theater, cause I think I did. LOLOLOLOLOL). Also i have heard the other joke that the clothe are too tight:" siriously guys this is stupid why don't they were any good things on them." (answering that: well they really can't where anything really that good on them which would technically show how unloyal it is to the novel and how 21-centurishhh this will be. because you are technically talking about the fashion in the 1930's guys - speically for the minutmen costumes more than the watchmen costumes which were fine and not as weird looking as the other ones." one last joke I have heard about this movie:" it is too long" (well If I realyl wnato t answer that i would have to tell you if it was any shorter or if anything was cut in the movie - anymore than they already had cut - then it wont be a remarkable making of the novel. every sentence said was remamrkably important to the novel and intresting to look at by itself.) many jokes yet one thing is true anyone who says them is really stupid (unless for the last one, if you used it with a little more sense) and really occult and i thought I will, or more likely should answer many of these things said because I am sick of writing comments.

a last thing I still want to say, bare with me LOL, is the fact that this movie is as much respectable in my eyes as his soundtrack and his score was. an amazing piece of music that fits more than perfectly in a movie that shall always be remembered. a great masterpiece which i kept on listining to it even after the movie was over in many days. a perfect way to end this movie and this review is also the great chemical romance record "desolation row". a perfect way for both the movie and this review. a perfect song reflecting alot of what watchmen had meant publicly more than the inside beliefs hidden behind the grips of a masterpiece that shall always be remembered and never forgotten. also the soundtrack had a great pick of 60's and 70's music that made it unforgettable (by Nat King Cole) even when you;re listening to the sound of silence (by Simon & Garfunkel) you'll remember that the times they are a-changing (by bob dylan) in a world full of Pruit Igoe & Prophecies (The Philip Glass Ensemble).

A perfect movie and a perfect soundtrack taken from the perfect book where everything is diffrent. where a whole new life start and ends with a movie that takes you far beyond your stupid and callow imagination and shows how big a movie can be and how big a movie can show even with less than a 100 million dollar in its first weekend and that a movie can break a record without breaking dollars.

Wraping it up, watchmen is an extraordinary experience that captures every picture in its novel and plunges it into this perfect masterpiece. Another way of saying it - once again - Zack makes a gift for another great graphic novel waiting to be awaken under the hands of someone who can handle it.