It caught a lot of the original source’s most recognizable frames, but wasn’t as kiss-assingly reverent as Superman Returns. The violence levels were just right – quite fitting since we’re talking about real grown-up stuff here, not The Fantastic Four (hehehe)

Btw, Matthew Goode wasn’t that good (baad pun alert) as Ozymandias…he looked like he was auditioning for Robin in Joel Schumacher’s Bat-abominations.

Cheers.

as for emphasizing powers, i don’t think the movie did that. sure they seem to posess more strength than ordinary humans but anybody skilled in martial arts, or any combat style for that matter, would tell you that it’s easy to hurl objects many times your weight. or kick the bejesus out of thugs. nothing out of the ordinary there. it’s not as if the movie had the characters shooting beams from their eyes or something.

sure the movie is not perfect, i have several issues with it as well, especially some minor changes like rorschach’s epiphany. but it definitely is far from being a failure either.

we should realize that it would always be difficult to translate a novel faithfully into a movie version, translating a graphic novel especially one with as huge a following as watchmen, is next to impossible. the graphic novel practically had snyder’s hands tied, especially since moore didn’t want to give his input (now that’s a cop out). armed with only the original work, i’d have to say that snyder did a heck of a good job.

It was awful and the only thing I am thankful for is that I didn’t pay to watch the movie!

And what do you mean the actors resembled the comic book counterparts?!? the film’s OZYMANDIAS WAS FAR FROM LOOKING LIKE THE MOST INTELLIGENT, CLOSE-TO-PERFECT PERSON THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. He looked like a wimp!!! The resemblance ended with the blond hair! And where was the Owl’s gut?!?

The actor playing Rorshach was the closest to redemption this movie had (although it was obvious he was channeling Clint Eastwood).

What an insult to Alan Moore to say that his vision was embodied in this film. His vision wasn’t to sexify, glamorize and emphasize the powers of these superheroes as the film did — it was completely the opposite (the point was that everyone, except for Dr. Manhattan, DIDN’T have superpowers and weren’t flawlessly glamorous!!!).

The ending was such a downer because it didn’t make sense anymore after the lack of nuance of the whole film. The ending seemed weak and more like a cop-out (even though it was the same ending which was compelling and brilliant in comic book form), like M. Night had something to do with it.

Funny how two people can say the same exact words but have two totally different results.

Here’s a brilliant skewering by way of the Watchmen Saturday cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w

As for FrancisM, I’ve always considered him to be an extension of The Eraserheads, especially from Cutterpillow onwards. His contribution to Fruitcake on vocals, the collaborative effort on a couple of tracks on Kiko’s own Happy Battle album, and that now highly anticipated team-up with Ely and the rest of Pupil is enough to seal the deal and come to that conclusion. He’ll be greatly missed.