Synopsis
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
2019 Directed by Nicole Kassell, Stephen Williams …
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Damon Lindelof Stephen Williams Nicole Kassell Joseph E. Iberti Tom Spezialy Ron Schmidt Christal Henry John Blair Karen Wacker
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me, giving something a star-rating in the year 2019? it's... dare i say... a thermodynamic miracle.
but Watchmen is more than a miracle—it is far more planned, articulate, masterful than chance. as a newcomer to the graphic novel and Synder's film, i find myself delighting in an alternate reality, for the most part. it is dark, violent, morally askew, erotic, crude, self-referential and self-critical. but it is also a very masculine text, both literature and film; it is universal inasmuch that the universe is made in the image of powerful men with faulty egos, hubris.
this Watchmen, though? it is of today, of yesterday, of a long history not represented, acknowledged, documented enough. the writers exploded an already fleshy political…
I used to think Zack Snyder's film was good. Then I watched the show and realized how mediocre the film is in comparison! In a year of disappointing shows like Big Little Lies S2 and Game of Thrones S8, it's good to know that there are still masterful original shows like this. Damon Lindelof can do no wrong!!
Lindelof's career has been focused on the limitations of our presence in time, the limits of our aging and the hurt that ripples outward from where it is created inside of us. The new step that Watchmen takes is to make this focus disciplined, racially motivated, and formally coherent: the central narrative act of Mesmerism is intrinsically tied not just with the inception of the superhero genre but also the inception of film itself. Where the original comic was a critique of the medium at the time, Watchmen entangles a critique of the propagandist dimensions of media in relation to the long-term sprawl of history.
So, it's an imperfect work from television’s ballsiest writer. It is both dorky and a…
“Jon, come back, where are you?”
“I’m in every moment we were together, all at once.”
Probably the best comic book related piece of
tv/film ever made
"You can't heal under a mask, Angela. Wounds need air."
AND I BELIEVE IN TELEVISION
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
A "superhero" show that actually took risks and tackled serious subject matters. Damn, Watchmen ain't playing. This shit is bananas.
“This is the moment.”
the greatest TV we’ve gotten since Twin Peaks The Return. masterful stuff. it’s honestly kind of a miracle that television this good still exists today, television this focused, television this enthralling, television this consistent. lindelof is a god. all hail.
Is there life on Mars?
I guess it wouldn't be a complete year without at least one more unpopular opinion. I'll keep this one simple because as much as I didn't like it, I don't really hate much of anything in it. My complaints about Watchmen can be summed up in two ways: Just about every examination about race and other American issues felt very surface level, a good idea or a scene rearing its head every once in a while. Otherwise, the film just suffers from being a slog. I never became truly invested with any of the new characters, the dialogue not helping any of that, the visuals were often flat, and this somehow managed to have a…
5 stars overall because it was one of most fascinating tv series i’ve ever seen BUT i didn’t love the finale. don’t get me wrong: i liked it, but for a series that never didn’t feel fresh and reveled in gleeful subversion, the finale seemed a little pat and, dare i say, comic-bookish to me