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And now, criticisms of Watchmen (the movie)
Some of this stuff is slightly spoilerish, even though the comic's been out for twenty five years, but hey....
Don't get me wrong, overall the movie was very good. I could have done without Dr. Manhattan's block and tackle swinging in the breeze, because it's one thing for that to be in the comic and another entirely for ubiquitous glowing blue cock on the large screen. In fact, the movie was better then I expected.
You see, I've seen "V for Vendetta" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and I also have read the comics that those movies were based on (although for LXG, only tangentially). So, there was a part of me that was expecting a two and a half-hour shitfest. I am pleased to say that this was not the case.
But I do have some things to pick on.
1) Why do all the 'normal' characters seem to have some level of superhuman strength? Okay, maybe it's just for the cinematography, but when Ozymandius, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are fairly casually hurling people around the room, or causing compound fractures or whatever.... it seems a bit much. Rorschach wasn't doing this so much, though, but he still seemed to have some superhuman levels of agility. (Of course, I fully expect someone like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
inunitywefall to explain to me that it's actually amazingly easy to shatter bones.
2) Dan Dreiberg's costume seemed to have concealed corsetry. This isn't so much a complaint as an observation.
3) A couple scenes from the comic were cut that I feel really should have been in there. One visit to Moloch was lost entirely, and Hollis Mason's death is not even in the movie. In fact, he only has the one scene. A shame, really.
4) Ubiquitous glowing blue cock. I'm sorry. This really did not need to be there. Put some pants on. (Also, I have to wonder who drew the... ahem... short straw... to have to do mo-cap on that.)
5) All of those can be relatively forgiven though... the one "Oh what the fuck" moment for me was actually a throw-away line. As Nite Owl and Rorschach are approaching Ozymandius' Antarctic hideaway, Karnak, Nite Owl mentions that Karnak is producing immense amounts of heat. Kind of funny that it's not sliding off of the ice shelf that it's on....
But really, if that's all that I have to complain about in a movie, that's actually not bad. Although I might want to watch it again to see if I heard a line correctly... in the scene where Dan Dreiburg and Laurie Juspeczyk are eating in the restaurant, I swear I heard one of the background actresses say that she was glad she ordered the four-legged chicken.
Don't get me wrong, overall the movie was very good. I could have done without Dr. Manhattan's block and tackle swinging in the breeze, because it's one thing for that to be in the comic and another entirely for ubiquitous glowing blue cock on the large screen. In fact, the movie was better then I expected.
You see, I've seen "V for Vendetta" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and I also have read the comics that those movies were based on (although for LXG, only tangentially). So, there was a part of me that was expecting a two and a half-hour shitfest. I am pleased to say that this was not the case.
But I do have some things to pick on.
1) Why do all the 'normal' characters seem to have some level of superhuman strength? Okay, maybe it's just for the cinematography, but when Ozymandius, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are fairly casually hurling people around the room, or causing compound fractures or whatever.... it seems a bit much. Rorschach wasn't doing this so much, though, but he still seemed to have some superhuman levels of agility. (Of course, I fully expect someone like
inunitywefall to explain to me that it's actually amazingly easy to shatter bones.2) Dan Dreiberg's costume seemed to have concealed corsetry. This isn't so much a complaint as an observation.
3) A couple scenes from the comic were cut that I feel really should have been in there. One visit to Moloch was lost entirely, and Hollis Mason's death is not even in the movie. In fact, he only has the one scene. A shame, really.
4) Ubiquitous glowing blue cock. I'm sorry. This really did not need to be there. Put some pants on. (Also, I have to wonder who drew the... ahem... short straw... to have to do mo-cap on that.)
5) All of those can be relatively forgiven though... the one "Oh what the fuck" moment for me was actually a throw-away line. As Nite Owl and Rorschach are approaching Ozymandius' Antarctic hideaway, Karnak, Nite Owl mentions that Karnak is producing immense amounts of heat. Kind of funny that it's not sliding off of the ice shelf that it's on....
But really, if that's all that I have to complain about in a movie, that's actually not bad. Although I might want to watch it again to see if I heard a line correctly... in the scene where Dan Dreiburg and Laurie Juspeczyk are eating in the restaurant, I swear I heard one of the background actresses say that she was glad she ordered the four-legged chicken.
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Get over it, dude. I'm pretty sure you've seen male genitalia before; seeing a pretend schlong shouldn't be so distracting as to take away from the rest of the movie.
Not only would it be less true to the character to have him walking about clothed, but seriously, it's time to get rid of this annoying double standard people seem so fond of: full nudity is ok if it's a woman showing the skin, but exposed trousershroom is a no-go. I've yet to read a single complaint about the T&A shown by the female actresses.
For someone else who prefers to see the nude female form more than the male form, I still felt gratified by Manhattan's disregard of clothing. In part because it was true to the book, in part because it was novel, and finally because it was about f*ing time for me to look around the theatre and note the guys squirming instead of watching just the women get uncomfortable in the dark.