Watchmen
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- sputnik20
so i just watched this yesterday and my thoughts are:
1) the actress who plays laurie, although lovely and decent, was WAY too young and it just didn't work
2) whereas moving back and forth between time periods worked in the book, it failed on screen. they needed to actually adapt it.
3) the tracks they used were sometimes inappropriately placed ("sound of silence" during comedian's burial) and didn't help solidify the time period for people unfamiliar w/the story. overall, the soundtrack was distractingly cheesy (remember leonard cohen's "hallelujah"?...that was just too much, i almost LOLed)
4) WTF did they do to billy cruddup's mouth as dr. manhattan? it seemed badly animated...why? really annoying.
5) i felt like i was attending an ass picnic for the first 1/2 hour. asses everywhere.
6) they should've left bubastis out.that being said, the geek in me really enjoyed effects, camera angles, sets and colours. i thought rorschach was bang-on, as was ozymandias and the comedian. it was too long etc, but i'm still glad i saw it.