Saturday Morning Watchmen

From a VHS tape that popped out of a wormhole to an alternate 80's reality. Thanks to Scott Paeth.

- Peace

Watchmen Review

Watchmen does it best to stay faithful to the original graphic novel. Ironically I enjoyed it most when it strayed. The look of the movie matches the graphic novel almost perfectly and is a wonder to see. The musical choices in the movie were spot on, especially Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin to take us through a large chunk of back story in a short period of time. Of course there was no music in the book.

The big surprise for me was that they improved the resolution of the plot. The end game stays true in spirit to the book but tightens it but having tie back to one of the major characters. The movie could have used more of that type of editing. There were details in the movie that had no set up and thus only made sense if you read the book. Take the inclusion of the right wing rag The Riffle Men for example. They were not introduced earlier in the movie, it is tacked on just to stay true to the book. Would have been better to tie in one of the reporters shown on TV through out the movie.

Watchmen the movie is good, but not great because it tries to stay too close to the great graphic novel.

- Peace