a5c7b9f00b A group of heroes, forced into retirement a decade before are called together once again to investigate the murder of one of their own. What they discover is an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power in a world not different from our own.
Watchmen is a story set in an alternative 1985, where the world is ticking closer to the brink of nuclear war, and a plot to eliminate a band of ex-crime fighters is instigated, but why? and by whom? It is up to two of those ex-crime fighters to investigate the plot that seems to go beyond the unthinkable.
I saw Watchmen today without knowing any more than the broad outlines of what it is about. Those of you who expect a comic book based movie to be a feel good epic with the superhero saving the world and getting the girl should forget about it. <br/><br/>This is a dark and disturbing story. It's saving graces are its thoughtful nature and how beautiful it is to look at and listen to. Some of the graphics are awe inspiring and the music works very well There is much to think about here, too. In fact, I am still thinking about it.<br/><br/>Try it, you might like it, I did. 9 out of 10.
Watchmen falls into a time-honoured trap of comic adaptations: spending a long time on back-stories that really only add to the film's girth, rather than give it any dramatic bite.<br/><br/>It feels like the makers were trying to please too many people. The back-stories were presumably for viewers who had not read the comics - but perhaps also for those who had enjoyed the source material and would have complained about missing characters, plot elements, etc. Given the unavoidable omissions, the catcalls are bound to come anyway.<br/><br/>So Watchmen waddles its way through almost three hours, failing to ramp up the tension due to its plethora of characters and multiple flashbacks. Barely credibly, there are also two even longer "director's cuts". Good luck to those who have so much spare time on their hands.<br/><br/>This writer would have preferred a shorter, snappier film which binned the back-stories and focused on one or two characters. It might not have been faithful to the comic - butits writer, Alan Moore, despises all film adaptations of his work, what was the point in attempting a reverent homage when a creative desecration could have been so much more enjoyable?
Even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay THIS faithful to a comic book.
Watchmen is based on a comic series written by English writer Alan Moore and illustrated by co-creator Dave Gibbons. It was originally published by DC Comics12 issues from 1986 to 1987 and was later republished in graphic novel format. Yes. Although earlier drafts of the script had a present day background, replacing the Cold War with the "war on terror," it was ultimately decided to retain the 1985 Cold War setting,the film's producers decided that,is, there are already enough eerie parallels between the world of the graphic novel and our own. One modern touch that appears in the film is Adrian Veidt (<a href="/name/nm0328828/">Matthew Goode</a>) and Doctor Manhattan (<a href="/name/nm0001082/">Billy Crudup</a>) attempting to create a new fuel source. This is very briefly touched on in the comic: Dr. Manhattan is having a conversation with Hollis Mason (<a href="/name/nm0570385/">Stephen McHattie</a>), the original Nite Owl, at his retirement party. Mason says his occupationa vigilante has become obsolete with Manhattan coming on the scene, so he's going to retire and repair cars. Manhattan tells him that the new electric cars will soon be everywhere; there never was enough lithium to power them before, but since he can easily synthesize it, gasoline-based cars will soon be obsolete. After this point in history, there are electric cars seen frequently in the background, and one scene has a delivery man recharging his truck at a news stand. Watchmen is based on a graphic novel which emulates and satirizes the history of characters from the Charlton Comics company, which had been acquired by DC Comics. Many of the modern superheroes people know today, like the Flash or Green Lantern, are actually the second bearers of those names and, in the Charlton Comics world, there were two Blue Beetles. The first were characters from the "Golden Age of comic books" of the 1930s and '40s, when superheroes first became a growing fad. The trend eventually died away, but was revived in the late 1950s by the introduction of new characters with new costumes and altered powers, bearing the names of their wartime counterparts, thus beginning the "Silver Age", which led to superheroes becoming a permanent part of Americana. In the world of Watchmen, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre represent this pattern, with their more modern-time incarnations being the main characters, having taken off from the Greatest Generation.
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