Synopsis
Nothing ever ends...
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.
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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…
"You can't heal under a mask, Angela. Wounds need air."
AND I BELIEVE IN TELEVISION
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
I think this is my third time watching this. Literally binged it all in a single sitting this time. I just absolutely love this series. Love the nonlinear storytelling and how the show builds mystery and intrigue in the beginning and follows through with some truly excellent payoffs. Reznor and Ross score f🤩ks and the soundtrack choices both incredibly thematic and cinematic. The entire cast slays, essentially every moment. Even the smaller roles. Standout performers for me are Jean Smart and Tim Blake Nelson, and I’m obsessed with Nelson’s mirror mask that looks magical on screen. This is definitely up there as one of my favorite shows of all time. Coincidentally, I didn’t realize it it at the time but…
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…