Boy - the Watchmen came and went rather quickly, didn't it?

Q: Who watches the Watchmen?

A: Not many!

Well, we had planned to go see it, but after my daughter came home from the theater with a black cloud over her head my son and I decided to wait for the DVD.

:o/

My son and I went to see it. He thought is was a wasted three hours. I thought is lasted way longer than three hours.

They didn't have the staying power of, say, The Observer in Fringe.

Not good. The DVD should be even more not good.

Mmmmm, 5 hours of not good.

*will probably put nerd-hair-shirt on and watch DVD once, to confirm the obvious*

I went to see it, but was rather unimpressed. It was waaay too long.

I enjoyed it. I would have gone a second time if financial and temporal contraints hadn't been in place.

"Boy - the Watchmen came and went rather quickly, didn't it?"

Does that mean it's time to start choosing the next group read?

If it is I nominate the little prince.

If instead it's just another thread about films you'll find me in the bar, by the little red x.

I enjoyed it!

because it was hideous...that's why..

I liked the movie AND I am a fan of the graphic novel.

I really enjoyed the movie, and the graphic novel too!

I can't really understand why everyone thought it was so bad, unless they were expecting Iron Man or something.

I can understand why people didn't like it. It's *really* not for everyone. But it was for me. I'm happy to agree to disagree.

The above applies to both comic and movie. And probably each to different groups of people.

I only got a few pages into the book. Been reading other stuff. Never dreamt of going to the movie.

I think the big problem with the movie is the reason that the original comic writer Alan Moore wanted his name off the movie, that his book simply was never designed to be a movie. It's writing structure fits only in literature and doesn't have the necessary flow and pace of a movie screenplay. Bear in mind Alan Moore has had a history of disavowing all movie versions of his works and wanting his name off of them, the previous being The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V For Vendetta. TLoEG was just overall a bad movie so I can understand him there, but many fans considered the movie version of VFV to be a very competent adaptation and felt Moore was simply being a neurotic control freak. I saw the Watchmen movie and although I loved the book, and this movie was very faithful to it despite trimming a lot of fat for the screen, I found myself fidgeting and looking at my watch. The pace and storytelling style to me felt too encumbered for the screen. I may give the movie a second viewing when it hits DVD and Blu-ray since there have been a few occasions where I hated a movie the first time but loved it the second, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest being an example. One thing's for certain, the "true" Watchmen movie version I'd been waiting for, the three hour and forty minute version, may not be the definitive choice I thought it would be afterall.

There's *some* truth to the argument that it was never designed to be a movie - for example, I think they struggled in attempting to reproduce the section showing how John experiences time.

And while it was very faithful to the book, I'm not sure how different the experience was for someone watching the movie without having read it.

For example, I'd told a friend that only one superhero actually had any super powers - but coming out of the movie he questioned me on that, having got the impression that they *all* had superpowers.

Still, I enjoyed it and will probably grab it on DVD.

I'll probably rent it, and then decide if it's worth buying. I understand completely that some books don't translate well to the screen without some heavy-handed changes. I agree with Shokara that TLoEG was not the best film, however I enjoyed VfV immensely. I hadn't read read either of those graphic novels before seeing those films, though. With Watchmen I had some 'expectations' not because I loved the book so much (because it seemed a bit dated and very sexist to me) but because the first trailer looked so freaking awesome!