Wow. What a film. No matter how many times I watch it I can never seem to get tired of it. Even though the Ultimate cut is 215 minutes long, I felt the same way Jon feels about time when I watch this film. Time simply flies. I have heard a lot of people say that the director’s cut is way too long, but I tend to disagree. I think the 3 hour long edition is the best way to experience the film in its full glory and get deeper into the skin of each and every character and also get to watch the Black Freighter.

The best way to review this film would be to review each and every…

Toby's Journal - Eighteenth November, Two-Thousand-and-Twelve:

Realised Watchmen was on. Even though I won't be watching all of it, I decided to finally review it. Finally. Using this gimmick. Deal with it.

Not sure where to start when talking about this. Should probably state that I'm not one of those who thinks this is an insult to the comic. Stays faithful to the source material whilst still being it's own film. The cinematography is perfect for the film's tone. Bleak. Desolate. But still beautiful in it's own way. The cast manage to capture the characters' personalities perfectly. Jackie Earle Haley being the standout. Amazing soundtrack too. Helps to make the film just that much better. Also, opening montage sets up…

I think living in the U.K. the whole comic-book phenomenon is a niche market than can pass most people by. Numerous movies have portrayed comic book obsession on the U.S. side of the water and it remains a staple of American life.
So "Watchmen" was another of these graphic novels that had unfortunately never crossed my path. I think after reading a lot of reviews from "fan-boys" that maybe it was lucky that I went into this movie blind and without any preconceptions of how it would reflect the source material. I must say though I was really impressed with both the story and the visuals. Zack Snyder cut his teeth with high-tech blue screen technology on "300" and used…

No film takes a giant shit on its source material like Zach Snyder’s Watchmen. Not even Daredevil completely disrespects its comic book origins as much as Watchmen does.

In this review, I plan to go over where the film simply fails as an adaptation, and therefore as a film itself. I can’t go over everything, as that would take too much time. Instead, I’ll go over the major points that bother me.

Introduction:

I was an impressionable teenager when I read Watchmen back in 2002. Back then, it absolutely blew me away. I took my time over several years to dissect everything about it and just what exactly made it work.

Well what made Watchmen work? Well, it managed to…

Wow. What a film. No matter how many times I watch it I can never seem to get tired of it. Even though the Ultimate cut is 215 minutes long, I felt the same way Jon feels about time when I watch this film. Time simply flies. I have heard a lot of people say that the director’s cut is way too long, but I tend to disagree. I think the 3 hour long edition is the best way to experience the film in its full glory and get deeper into the skin of each and every character and also get to watch the Black Freighter.

The best way to review this film would be to review each and every…

I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying. It spoon-feeds us, which has the effect of watering down our collective cultural imagination. Aan het woord is Alan Moore, een van 's werelds meest vermaarde stripauteurs die zijn werk de voorbije jaren vaak tot aardige (V for Vendetta), nét genietbare (From Hell) of desastreuze (The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen) films zag herleid worden. We nemen het de bebaarde kluizenaar dan ook niet kwalijk dat hij de verfilming van zijn grootste paradepaardje, Watchmen, een alternatieve hervertelling van de Amerikaanse geschiedenis, de rug toekeerde.
Het etiket 'onverfilmbaar' is immers zelden zo toepasbaar geweest als op dit huzarenwerk: strip, metafysische ellipsen, dokterverslagen en dagboekfragmenten worden immers herwerkt tot één grillig magnum…

I think living in the U.K. the whole comic-book phenomenon is a niche market than can pass most people by. Numerous movies have portrayed comic book obsession on the U.S. side of the water and it remains a staple of American life.
So "Watchmen" was another of these graphic novels that had unfortunately never crossed my path. I think after reading a lot of reviews from "fan-boys" that maybe it was lucky that I went into this movie blind and without any preconceptions of how it would reflect the source material. I must say though I was really impressed with both the story and the visuals. Zack Snyder cut his teeth with high-tech blue screen technology on "300" and used…