Me, because I’m in graduate school hell right now. Grrrr.
Anyway, I09 reports that Watchmen pulled in $25.1 million on it’s first day so I assume a number of you did make it out to the theaters. Surprisingly though, when looking for reactions to the movie the blogosphere seems to be unusually quiet and scattered on the subject. MTV’s article pretty much sums it up, Watchmen Reviews Are In: Everyone Disagree’s! No one camp seems to be larger than the other.
Over on Rotten Tomatoes the movie has only a 65% rating. The comments are pretty well mixed up across the entire spectrum, and as always when it comes to fan movies and Rotten Tomatoes hilarity ensues.
However, most of the blogs I’ve read have been reasonably favorable. I haven’t found anyone gushing over the movie, but the general feeling is that Snyder did a -decent- job of adapting the movie. They acknowledge that the movie is flawed, but let’s face it, we all knew it couldn’t be perfect. Watchmen is so dense with supplementary material and abstract nuances that somethings were bound to be lost in translation.
Not having seen the movie yet myself, there isn’t much more -I- can say on the matter (one more week!) but here are a few sites that already have posts up about the movie. Once again though I’m quite surprised that the discussions have not been more active. If any of you bloggers are talking about this on your own sites, drop off a link in the comments here. I’d love to hear what you thought about Watchmen.
/End of Line
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fullbodytransplant // March 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm |
You can see the real ending with the squid here:
http://fullbodytransplant.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/watchmen-squid-the-real-ending/
Good times.
nymeria87 // March 22, 2009 at 6:56 pm |
I haven’t seen it yet either and really want to though. Guess I’ll have to wait for less busy and less broke times though. Woe broke student life