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…

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…

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Watchmen is a fantastic limited series. I’m glad that this series is on Letterboxd so I am able to review/log it. Although since this is technically a TV show I decided not to give it a rating (As you can tell from the score it would have been a 5). I’ve wanted to watch this show ever since it came out and after it won a few of the big Emmys I wanted to see it even more. Almost every aspect of this show is incredibly well made to the point of where it’s brilliant. I believe one of the big reasons I loved this series is that I’ve always had a personal love of superhero stories/films and I…

If you haven't read the comics like me, you might be in for a WTF-is-happening surprise which is a good thing as the show gives you a lot to process—one too many characters and their subplots, extreme racism, modern-day KKK where corrupt officials inflict hate for clout, the other side of the superheroes in the real world, squid rain so on and so forth. It's a different take on the whole superhero phenomenon where they are trying hard to save their own lives.

The premise is way too complicated—several subplots tied together cohesively. As the story progresses, you question everything. A 100-something old man confined to his wheelchair is suspected of murdering a police officer. The hunt for the old…

Began on the 27th. Completed on this date though.

Quite possibly the best comic-book related piece of film that I've seen since Dark Knight Rises, and also very possibly the most interesting one I've seen since BVS. No disrespect whatsoever to the plenty of MCUs that have also entertained and gripped me over the years (most of which I wouldn't change at all), but one from the guy behind The Leftovers that's also structured as such? They shouldn't even be compared, which I'm most certainly not here to do.

But, if Zack Snyder showed that you could adapt this world into film, Damon Lindeloff more than showed how you could continue it. Regina King seems to get the most praise…