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WATCHMEN, reportedly, cost $130 million to make. It is easy to see how those dollars were spent on screen. The movie’s abundant effects are impressive, whether they be Dr. Manhattan‘s perpetual-motion Martian timepiece or Big Blue’s vanishing codpiece and consequently-revealed, telescoping tube-steak. Rorschach’s mask is a particularly well-realized visual. However, I wish Zack Snyder would have sunk just a few more bucks into the cast. Having seen Robert Downey Jr.‘s alchemic performance last year, transforming IRON MAN
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March 8th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
as a life long comic book fan i was delighted to see that hollywood got the story right if nothing else this time.
cinematography and special effects were right on – nothing new though
the threatening feel of Reagan and Gorbachev era was expressed well for this faux 1985 world. threatening to kill us at any moment was expressed in the comic mini series and is carried through in movie.
The lesson that can be learned for Hollywood about making comic books into movies is simple – comic books are made to be fantastical and fill of disbelief. This fact does not carry well into the general populous –
That is why ComicCon and Trekkie conventions have a place and it is not in mainstream cinema. For the price of making a Watchmen you could have made 5-7 well crafted great independent films with far more redeeming value and far more mass appeal.
Just a guy
March 8th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
as a life long comic book fan i was delighted to see that hollywood got the story right if nothing else this time.
cinematography and special effects were right on – nothing new though
the threatening feel of Reagan and Gorbachev era was expressed well for this faux 1985 world. threatening to kill us at any moment was expressed in the comic mini series and is carried through in movie.
The lesson that can be learned for Hollywood about making comic books into movies is simple – comic books are made to be fantastical and full of disbelief. This fact does not carry well into the general populous –
That is why ComicCon and Trekkie conventions have a place and it is not in mainstream cinema. For the price of making a Watchmen you could have made 5-7 well crafted great independent films with far more redeeming value and far more mass appeal.
Just a guy