Watchmen
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 6, 2009
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MekuraKJul 8, 2009
The only redeeming quality was Lucy Lawless' body, and even that was most certainly not worth the hours of torture one has to endure.
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SPMar 11, 2009
This movie had so many problems, it's hard to know where to start. Unless you're a fan of the source material, there's simply nothing to care about except that you've wasted nearly 3hrs of your life! Anthony Lane's This movie had so many problems, it's hard to know where to start. Unless you're a fan of the source material, there's simply nothing to care about except that you've wasted nearly 3hrs of your life! Anthony Lane's review right on the nose.… Expand
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BrockR.Mar 13, 2009
This has to be one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. The only thing keeping it from a 0 is the great special effects. Those same special effects were used WAY to much however. Too Gorey, boring and all around bad acting. Was This has to be one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. The only thing keeping it from a 0 is the great special effects. Those same special effects were used WAY to much however. Too Gorey, boring and all around bad acting. Was there a point to that sex scene? it wasnt in the novel. Lets just see how pointy and small we can make her breats look. And I did read a review on here and I completely agree with the campy ass music. That had to be the worst part, way to predictable for the music as well as some terrible choices to even be in the movie (that weird halleluh cover) All in all i feel I wasted money and time. And of course I saw it in IMAX so I got to see it REALLY suck.… Expand
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AlexanderWMar 13, 2009
Who watches the watchmen? Not I...beyond terrible, just because you capture the visuals of the graphic novel doesn't mean you've got the spirit behind it. Alan Moore's graphic novel set a precedent in how it stirred the comic Who watches the watchmen? Not I...beyond terrible, just because you capture the visuals of the graphic novel doesn't mean you've got the spirit behind it. Alan Moore's graphic novel set a precedent in how it stirred the comic book world with the idea of super heroes of human origin and subtlety. It wasn't about rampant slow motion sequences, low budget acting due to matching the face of drawings (in order to appease a childish fanboy basis), nor having men punch men through columns. The subtlety lay in its creating a dark world with parallels and commentary on society of the time, granted, it was so prolific it still manages to be viable in today's society. The fantastical idea of Jon, Dr. M, gives us the conflict of a human enduring with the struggle of losing grip with emotion...of indulging so far on mathematical and absolute perception that humanity is no longer indivisible to him. The heroes are just run-of-the-mill burnouts, with only the two unstables remaining in play. Watchmen is such a human film...it was like the 1984 of comics. Zack Snyder doesn't know how to direct original films, lets see him try his hand at something that isn't a remake nor has been pitched to him by some big studio lackey looking for the next remake or adaptation to save Hollywood from its drought of unoriginality. What next? An American REMAKE of the Korean perfection that is Oldboy? Oh wait...that's already happening. On a final note...when you slow motion spit coming out of a man's mouth from a punch in order to capture the essence and "grit" of the comic book film, don't. When you make a movie like 300 that is 99.9% bullet time? Don't pretend that by making a 2hour 41minute fagfest with 66.6% bullet time that you're any more artsy and have variety up your sleeve. The CG looks like sci-fi channel cheap bullshit too...oh, and on a last note? Bullet time action sequences ruin a literary masterpiece, as Alan Moore said in so many words, some things just don't adapt well.… Expand
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IanDMar 14, 2009
The reviewer from the Hollywood reporter gets it dead right. The movie is nonsense. I still cant believe i didn't just walk out and save myself the extra hour and a half.
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AaronJMar 14, 2009
Maddening waste of time and money. Takes an hour and a half before we start to stumble across anything that could be called a story. A violent video game where no one is playing. Not a movie - a prelude to a sequel.
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TomCMar 16, 2009
I understand the difficulties inherent in adapting Watchmen to the screen and, to be fair, Snyder was incredibly faithful in maintaining the look, dialogue and basic plot elements of the original. A Watchmen film that runs at two hours and I understand the difficulties inherent in adapting Watchmen to the screen and, to be fair, Snyder was incredibly faithful in maintaining the look, dialogue and basic plot elements of the original. A Watchmen film that runs at two hours and forty minutes requires the economy of a poet. Defenders of the film have argued that Snyder has created the best adaptation of Watchmen possible given these constraints, but there was plenty of fat that could have been skimmed off the surface of this bloated, superficial adaptation. For example, why did the Comedian's death need to be an extended action sequence in an adaptation that leaves no room for superfluity? Not because it served the source material or even the film, but because Snyder couldn't help himself. Why does a goofy sex scene drag on interminably while a devastating international attack is practically glossed over? A simple matter of priority, I suppose. What Snyder lost in his supposedly dutiful translation of Moore's text is the emotional richness and relentless dramatic tension that makes the novel work in the first place. I didn't care about any of these characters, despite the generally phenomenal performances (with the exception of Akerman, Gugino and Goode). The film completely lacks any organic arc to carry the reader through its world, which is what sucks the life out of these performances. The sense of dread that slowly boils until it bubbles over in the graphic novel has been replaced with, "...and then...and then...and then," amounting to little more than a cheap game of 'connect the dots' for fans of the comic. By the time Ozymandius unveils his masterstroke, the impact is totally nullified. Indeed, why should we care about a nuclear holocaust in a film with nothing identifiably human about it? Why should we feel betrayed by Adrian Veidt when there's no humanity in the film worth saving? Ultimately, I loathed Watchmen not for it's excision of my favorite subplots or its atrocious soundtrack, but for its plasticity. I love the graphic novel for it's intellectual depth and subtlety of characterization, sure, but also for the way it makes me feel. The graphic novel moved me, while the film left me scratching my head. And in a film adaptation that leaves no room for excess, I would argue that Snyder worried far too much about superficial replication and sensationalism and too little about the human pulse of Watchmen. Shave off thirty seconds of a sex scene and give me thirty seconds of a newsvender making smalltalk with a smart alec kid, so that when a nuclear blast disintegrates them as they share a desperate hug in their final moments on a tragic planet, it actually means something. This film has no reason to exist other than as an exercise in nostalgia for Watchmen fans who haven't read the novel recently enough to remember what makes it work. Snyder understands how everything fits except people.… Expand
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KieranHMar 16, 2009
Visually beautiful. Captures a number of photogenic scenes and animates them- without bringing them to life. To analogize this film to the source material is to compare a soulless flesh-eating zombie to Frankenstein's tragic creation. Visually beautiful. Captures a number of photogenic scenes and animates them- without bringing them to life. To analogize this film to the source material is to compare a soulless flesh-eating zombie to Frankenstein's tragic creation. It is a low-functioning, blood-thirsty automaton, oblivious to even its own state of undeath. To the dubious fanboys who actually rate this movie above 3, I suggest that you truly re-read Moore's masterpiece before presuming that its detractors have failed to intellectually digest the intricate themes of the original. Only a superficial appreciation of the graphic novel would lend this film any credibility as a faithful adaptation.… Expand
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AnneAMar 19, 2009
Truly one of the worst films I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. You'd think Dr. Manhattan -- super genius and all powerful master of the universe -- could conjure up a pair of pants but no, apparently that eludes his grasp.
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RKMar 26, 2009
Absolutely horrid. There is no discernible plot. The dialogue is atrociously bad that it makes George Lucas look like Shakespeare. And, oh god is it long.
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JasonCApr 12, 2009
1 point for Rorschach, another for Doctor Manhattan, the rest of the movie is downright awful. Disjointed story, childish dialogue, poor casting, wooden acting, less than spectacular special effects...an ordinary effort all round. I expected 1 point for Rorschach, another for Doctor Manhattan, the rest of the movie is downright awful. Disjointed story, childish dialogue, poor casting, wooden acting, less than spectacular special effects...an ordinary effort all round. I expected much more from the director of 300 than this tripe. Memorable for all the wrong reasons. Give it a miss, read the graphic novel instead.… Expand
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ThiagoPApr 21, 2009
Some of the fighting scenes are good, but, overall, this movie is way too violent and confusing.
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ashrafk.Jul 14, 2009
In 2000 John Travolta made a movie called "Battlefield Earth", was the "worst movie ever done in the history of movie industry", right after in cardinal order stands this piece of bodily excrement "watchmen". I honestly don't know whatIn 2000 John Travolta made a movie called "Battlefield Earth", was the "worst movie ever done in the history of movie industry", right after in cardinal order stands this piece of bodily excrement "watchmen". I honestly don't know what this is. I mean it's someone rented all sci-fi and noir movies over the past 30 years, watch them all over night, and decided blend them all in one movie, add to it a touch of 80s and 70s in an alternate reality, kinda of distorted "blade runner" with that "humphrey bogart" narration running in the back during the whole 2 !@#%in hours. I mean what is this? Scenes from Space Odyssey, Blade runner, noir movies including sincity, I mean what the hell were you thinking?… Expand
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EkkoeDec 7, 2011
The only people who can actually appreciate this movie are those who have never read the comic and simply like the idea. The idea is brilliant, but was introduced in the comic. The film tears its source material apart and decides to constructThe only people who can actually appreciate this movie are those who have never read the comic and simply like the idea. The idea is brilliant, but was introduced in the comic. The film tears its source material apart and decides to construct anew from nothing but the idea, failing miserably in the process. Everything, from the adapted script to horrible acting and poor casting, fails.

If you liked the idea, read the comic. This material is simply not meant to be defended by the argument "I simply enjoyed it". It is literature and a masterpiece, butchered by Hollywood and Zach Snyder's pretense.… Expand
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PROpescuNov 17, 2021
Worst Chinese propaganda trash the ever was! It suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked!
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DFCOLOMBINIJun 5, 2023
O Filme é muito ruim, chato demais de assistir, vai ganhar umas nota 3 pelos efeitos especiais....
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