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AH! I finally saw Watchmen, and surprisingly, it was better than I expected it to be. This week I'm just going to write a review of the movie, and most of you probably won't ever see it because it's rated R, (and for good reason, no thanks to the Comedian) and also because you probably think it's stupid. Well, I don't think it's stupid. Alan Moore writes such memorable books I can't see anyone not liking them. Okay, scratch that. My mom would hate that book. But for the most part, people would generally like Watchmen... At least if you're like me.

I'll start out with a review of the different characters, then I'll take a stab at the general idea. Oh, and I'll review the soundtrack too.

Laurie/Silk Spectre II-- We'll start with the bad. The actress who played Laurie, who was not my favorite character in the book anyway, really butchered her in the movie. She was a worse actress than Kirsten Dunst in Spiderman 3. Now that's saying something. It looked like she was reading the script for the first time, and just putting in whatever she thought would be a good display of emotions. Malin Akerman looked like she was kind of trying, but it didn't really work that well in the movie. The other actors were much better.

Jon/Dr. Manhattan-- My dad didn't particularly like Billy Crudup in the movie because he didn't picture Jon that way in the book, but I thought he was perfect for the role. He acted the way I expected him to, and when he was still Jon he was pretty darn good. Not to mention cute. tee hee.

Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias-- He was okay. Matthew Goode was kind of blank the entire movie, but I think that's how Veidt would have been anyway, so I guess they did a pretty good job. He could have done a little better job and displayed some more emotion.

Walter Kovacs/Rorschach-- When I first went into the theater I was a little worried I wasn't going to like Rorschach very much (he is my favorite character in the book). But guess what! Jackie Earle Haley did a great job. At some times I think he could have displayed less emotion (because that's just how Walt- I mean, Rorschach is). There were scenes when it looked exactly like the comic book because Haley is so identical to Rorschach in the novel. He really creeped me out, so thumbs up to him!

Edward Blake/The Comedian-- Yes, yes, I know. Everyone loves Jeffrey Dean Morgan from Gray's Anatomy. I'm sorry to say it, but he was the best actor of the movie. He really nailed his part, but I can't say I liked him. Edward Blake is a you know what.

Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II-- Overall, Patrick Wilson did a pretty good job too. It was weird to see him in the scenes with Laurie, only he looked natural and she did not. Kind of an odd combination. Overall, Wilson did a pretty good job here too.

Oh well, looks like we're done with most of the main characters. Before I forget I should probably mention that I have to stay for the entire credits (if someone is going to make a movie and work so hard, I should be able to sit 5 minutes longer and watch their name), meanwhile I look for the most horrible part you could have been cast. In this particular movie, it was "Aggressive Hooker." In the Dark Knight, "Fat Thug". But that's just me, there are probably worse parts out there.

Overall, the movie was pretty good. The reviews I heard at first said that the movie was almost identical to the comic book, so I wasn't expecting much to change. Surprising to me, they changed a lot of things, and most of the time it was to make the scene a little bit gorier. The movie itself was pretty amazing, especially the scenes on Mars. I was a little bit upset about some of the changes they made, and they left out a lot of the really interesting stuff in the comic book, er, graphic novel. I would give the movie a 7-8 out of 10. The plot of the story is incredible, and that alone deserves a ten. The way they did some scenes were kind of weird, but for the most part it was pretty good. The Dark Knight is still better though, sorry to say.

The soundtrack is actually kind of boring. There are a few good songs, but most of them are kind of background noise, to accent what's going on in the movie, and Tyler Bates doesn't seem to be able to make the music stand alone but stand with the movie too. My favorite song is the Comedian's theme, which makes me kind of mad, but it's very good. My first impression listening to the album was a cross between The Dark Knight, composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, and also Revenge of the Sith, composed by John Williams. This is in reference to the score, not the soundtrack. I probably should have clarified that at the beginning.

So there's my review(s), however you would like to classify them (as one or as three seperate reviews).


I want to see Watchmen again.... : (

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