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Perhaps understandbly, a good many people have reacted to this movie through
skewered lenses with some kind of fanboy derision that this graphic novel was
too unique and sophisticated a piece of art to make into a movie. Okay, that's
BS on a couple of levels. "Graphic novel" is a presumptuous and pretentious
description. The Watchmen is a glorified comic book - indeed a glorious comic
book. But it's a comic book. Also, they've made very good movies from
Shakespeare, so let's not be quite so precious, mkay Mr Moore?
I'm probably a mid-level audience to the film personally. I read the comics when
they came out 20 odd years ago, and thought they were pretty cool. There were a
lot of little details and bits of dialogue that were striking. But I mostly
don't give a rat's patoot about comic books, and I haven't spent most of my
adult life studying this "graphic novel" like it was holy writ. So I was
familiar and positive, but not obsessed.
So many moments stand out, but I was really impressed with the way they brought
Dr Manhattan's world to life. That's not so much the physical appearance of the
character as his world of watch pieces in the lab that he's trying to puzzle
together, and his Martian home, the flying clock ship thingy, and such. Oh, and
people having little fits over a couple of brief appearances of his blue penis
really should shut the hell up. That's about as natural and necessary and about
equally erotic to Michaelangelo's statue of David.
I was also particularly struck by the humanity of Rorschach in the movie,
particularly in the scenes of Walter Kovacs without the Rorschach mask. Jackie
Earle Hanley was utterly beautiful and perfect in expressing the underlying pain
and torment of the character with human facial expressions that no comic book
could equal.
I'll note that I was finding much more comedy in Rohrschach on screen than I
remember taking from the book. Perhaps this says more about me than the movie,
but I found myself laughing like one of Judge Doom's weasels over many scenes of
Rorschach dispensing justice. I could hardly stop laughing at any point with him
in prison. Flinging a vat of boiling oil onto a criminals face, and the various
destructions laid on Mr Big and his boys just had me rolling.
Anyway, more on the movie soon. Meantime, here are some image galleries from the
movie:
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JONAH GOLDBERG on the politics of The Watchmen
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