Movies | February 18, 2009 | 19 comments

'Watchmen' review shocker: Geeks will love it!

source: http://defamer.com/5155104/watchmen-review-shocker-geeks-will-love-it

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While its writer denies he's reviewed anything, the unofficial first take on Watchmen is live at Time. The verdict: It's destined for fanboy greatness. Who knew?

Matt Selman insists he hasn't breached Warner Bros.' review embargo on the film, which opens March 6 and is review-proof anyway. But even so, where hormonal sister publication EW yelped with awe for months over Twilight, the Time blogger has claimed ownership of the geek vanguard with Monday's rather fulsome introspection:

I'm not allowed to talk details, but let's just say it is astounding how much of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel is in this movie. [...]

Sitting in that screening room and watching the visual world of the Watchmen movie unfold was one of the most powerful experiences I've ever had. Not film experiences. Just EXPERIENCES. I don't think I realized how close I was to the original book until I saw such a loving, detail-rich, almost obsessive recreation of that universe. It had my heart pounding and head swimming. I barely slept that night. Someone took the most special personal thing of my adolescence and put it on a movie screen. That doesn't happen every day.

Thank God; "most special personal things" of our own adolescence would probably never even clear the ratings board.
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19 comments // 'Watchmen' review shocker: Geeks will love it!

  • sandman0177
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      sandman0177  

    • I've read the graphic novel and also saw the movie this past opening weekend. I had high hopes and was disapointed in almost every way. The story closely mirrored the books so I can't fault it in content or context since it had the look and feel of the book. I just think the story simply works better as a grapic novel. Nothing about the film transcended the way the novel does. It tried to make itself relevant to todays times but was too overwrought with slow pacing that the relevance of the books messages get lost and quite frankly no one seemed to care. which is a shame really, but it's why Transformer's II will be a colossal hit and Watchmen falls extremely short of capturing the genius of the novel. Moore wrote a masterpiece. And the Watchmen movie is the prefect, even if it's rare, example of why not everything can or needs to be made into a movie. Some graphic novels were made to be just that.

    • 2 years ago
  • likeadream
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      likeadream  

    • this movie was the gayest movie i have ever seen, blue penis, kill millions of people to save the world, gay ass superheroes, and it it was all philosophy and politics, man there was not enough action, killing, gore, like 300, shit sucked i expected better of the director.

    • 2 years ago
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  

    • Great news! Blair Butler of G4 geekdom fame said she cried at the opening credits. I probably will to. Looks amazing and it realy from reading the dense industry review made me happy because Snyder got it and made it for the fans. When the review said that it does nothing to engratiate these characters to people unfamiliar with the graphic novel I cheered! Remember the audiance that read this novel because that is your bread and butter. No one expected the 300 to do well and it smashed all expectations of the industry. Now we have that pluss the adition of a cerebral element not lost on the masses. All I can say is hellz yeah!

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • Sumkrazyguy55
  • joekangiser
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      joekangiser  

    • I wonder if Alan Moore will put his name with this movie. He refused to with V for Vendetta. He should of done what Frank Miller did and help direct the movie. Sin City and 300 came out perfect.

    • 2 years ago
  • Sexirobot
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      Sexirobot  
    • joekangiser:

      I agree but Alan Moores loathing for everything Hollywood is well warranted, look at what happened to the league of extraodinary gentlemen, Hollywood took a brillantly written series of graphic novels and turn them into a watered down theatrical abotion.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
  • UWAZell
  • Sexirobot
  • Mobius2012
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      Mobius2012  

    • Do you know what the watchmen is a reference to? its a reference to the ''watchers'', the biblical mysterious beings who preside over man....

      I saw ''Watchers'' in my vision, the dream-vision. Two men were fighting over me ... holding a great contest over me. I asked them, 'Who are you, that you are thus empowered over me?' They answered, 'We have been empowered and rule over all mankind.' They said to me, 'Which of us do you choose to rule you?' I raised my eyes and looked. One of them was terrifying in his appearance, like a serpent, his cloak, many-colored yet very dark. ... And I looked again, and in his appearance, his visage like a viper. ... I replied to him, 'This Watcher, who is he?' He answered, 'This Watcher ... his three names are Belial and Prince of Darkness and King of Evil.' I said (to the other Watcher), 'My lord, what dominion (have you?)' He answered, 'You saw (the viper), and he is empowered over all Darkness, while I (am empowered over all Light.) ... My three names are Michael, Prince of Light and King of Righteousness. [13]

      References

      The people behind Hollywood know something the rest of the world doesn't.......

    • 2 years ago
  • el_chivo
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      el_chivo  
    • Mobius2012:

      Jajajaja, oh damn. Do you know who wrote watchmen, right? You have read watchmen?
      What this has to do with Hollywood then? Do you know that this movie was on hold for a large amount of years because nobody really care about it?

    • 2 years ago
  • magnusdeus
  • Sumkrazyguy55
  • Mobius2012
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      Mobius2012  
    • Mobius2012:

      Sumkrazyguy---

      Your ignorance makes me wince......Writers take ideas from ancient texts all the time, be it, not all of them, but for example, In the Marvel Comic books Empire there is a race of alien beings called the ''Chitauri'', which is a blatant plagerism of Africas age old tales of a race of beings called the ''Chitauri''.but you would obviously know nothing about that... sigh....I could care less about the ''watchmen'' story though, what I was trying to say is that the ''Watchmen'' Is a reference to the ''Watchers'', I'm not going to post the excerpt again.... I heard that ignorance is bliss...you mind telling me how you feel? LOL

    • 2 years ago
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  
    • Mobius2012:

      Its based of a moral question posed by Plato. "Qui Custodiet ut Costodium?" Who Watches the Watchmen. It was about the role of safegaurds in a democratic society and how that level of openess can be upheld when those protecting and inspecting democratic process to make sure they are fair are also beyond reproach. Eventualy Plato says we must tell them the lie that they are better than the men they serve we lie to them and say they are better than they are. Its a deep and meaningful and not the tripe you are peddling.

    • 2 years ago
  • Mobius2012
  • numinant
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      numinant  

    • i can't even bring myself to brace for disappointment. then again, i'm not familiar with the source material, but there's something extremely poignant about the trailer, with superheroes that genuinely seem conflicted and almost resigned to the world's destruction.

      i have one concern though. at the library i flipped through the pages of the graphic novel, and it appeared that the blue guy was battling viet cong. i hope it addresses the issue of unjust war rather than glorify the effort...

    • 2 years ago
  • thisisonelongname
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      thisisonelongname  

    • Entropy is the way of things. This is one of the best graphic novels i have ever read. Taking it apart in a mythology class has made this comic a part of me now haha

    • 2 years ago
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