As the title infers, i saw the watchmen the other night, so we'l start with that.
Firstly, it was looong.
2 and a half hours long.
Any movie is aproaching too long at that point, it doesnt matter what its about. My bad left knee starts aching (leave the old man comments out of it) and im well out of pop corn and drink, malteasers a fading memory. I would say that the movie filled the 160 minutes well though, plenty of action, drama and story "meat" and no filler.
The story: The Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 where superheros are common but outlawed. The world, turning ever more violent, has turned against caped crusaders who dispence their own violent and sometimes skewed brand of justice.
A running narrative is continued through the movie by masked vigilante Rorschach, a disallusioned loner once apart of a super group who uncovers a plot to kill supers.
Now im going to spoil it, so if your just dying to see it and dont want me to piss on your parade then tune out now and by all means come back and agree/disagree/discuss/have a drink with me after you;ve seen it.
The casting was brilliant, with brawn and brains and beauty all being used to push elements of the storyline across, beauty having palpable cosequences. Fountains of blood were to be expected i guess, "300" and "V for Vendetta" coming from the same writer.
Ok. Rorschach appeals to me, because in his bitter, mostly awful world of seeing the worst in people (which is inherant in the almost rambling hateful monologue/diary) he holds truth and above all no compromise in what he believes is right.
But it was Osmandias i came to repect the most, for sometimes the right decision is the hardest (ie: wiping out hundres of millions of people and bringing human civilisation to its knees)
My favorite line was, in a very typical scene where Osmandias (bad guy or is he?) is cornered in his lair and is spilling all the details of his warped plot to save the human race by annialating a good portion of it, just in time for our band of heros to save the day...?
"You think i told you all the details of my plan so you could stop it? All this was set in motion 35 minutes ago."
Brilliant!
I give it 7 out of 10 masks.
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I agree with a lot of your points - although not totally with your thoughts on Osmandias. But that's one of the things I most liked about it - how morally grey it all was. Oh and Frank Millar wrote 300, Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta and The Watchmen. (But 300 was directed by the guy who directed the Watchmen.) Haven't read comics by either of the authors, but based purely on the adaptions, I rate Moore much more highly. His stories seem to have a lot of depth. Although he is one weird looking dude.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, you are correct! Thankyou.
ReplyDeleteAnd indeeedy Alan Moore would seem to have a whole lot more depth. But hes just so damning of society and all of its elements, that overwhelming grey. Like there is only grey and black. EEP!
Hes definatelty shown he wont pull punches, if blowing up millions gets the storyline across... and boy does it!
And now we all realise where Heroes ripped their storyline from. ;)
ReplyDeleteJimzip :D