Flour Power

It’s been a week since I watched Watchmen and since I really liked the movie and want everyone to go and see it, it’s time for a short review.

I’m calling this a “lightning” review because I don’t really feel like doing a thorough analysis of the movie. That would take too long and would be too much work. And I prefer just doing a simple review and not play the pseudo-intelectual role and try to find hidden significances in every small detail.

So, let’s get it started. My likes:

• The fight scenes are really cool;
• The special effects are awesome. It’s great that now we have all the tecnology to bring the comic book stories alive;
• Laurie Jupiter (Malin Akerman) is so damn hot! Guess where she’s from? Yes, Sweden…
• Rorschach is just amazing! He’s simply brutal, and presents us with a few gore-ish fight scenes;
• This is not the typical superhero flick! And this is a BIG plus. I’m not gonna go too much into comparing it to the comic book because I haven’t read it in more than 7 or 8 years, but I can tell that the anti-superhero thing is there.

And my dislikes:

• The movie is huge. Almost 3 hours. I understand it would be hard to squeeze it into less, but since it’s slow paced at times, 163 minutes feels a bit too much. Maybe all it needed was a toilet-break, and in this case the cinema is to blame, and not the movie itself;
• Rorschach’s dialogue is kind of hard to understand, due to his extremely hoarse voice;
• The silly jokes are completely unnecessary and a bit annoying;
• The background music for this one love scene makes it completely weird.

That was it. I’m sure I’ll remember more stuff right after I press “Publish”, but this is what I could get just off the top of my head, so I guess the most important things have been mentioned.

Now go and watch it!

It’s been a loooooooooong time since I’ve been to the cinema. I don’t even remember which movie was the last one. And I don’t know if I’ve ever watched a movie on it’s premiere…

So you can say that I’m pretty excited about this, even though the reviews are not that great.

Well, let’s hope that at least the price is worth the 2 pints I could buy with that money…

I can barely believe this is finally going to see the light of day. It has been delayed more times than I care to count, and when it was finally done and ready to be released, a dispute between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. on who had the distribution rights threatened to delay it even more. Fortunately they reached a settlement in time for the March 6 opening of this highly anticipated movie.

The movie is based on the Watchmen comic book by Alan Moore (penciled by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins), who has had a few of his works adapted into movie form (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta) and always chose not to be associated with such adaptations.

For more information head to the official movie website or the always very helpful IMDB.

And here’s the Watchmen movie final poster: