Hi all. Well, after much much ado I finally saw 'Watchmen' last night. Actually i got "taken" to go see it. How exciting. The movie was actually really romantic in a hardened vigilante type of way- Dr. Manhattan's quest to align himself with humans and their messy emotions provides a jumping point for insightful dialog about relationships, in general.
I saw this movie at the new Foxboro Stadium movie theater at "Patriots Place". (I believe it is called 'Cinema de Luxe" or something I will check it out and hopefully edit this post at a later time). I was surprised the movie was still out in theaters. To my delight we were two of a total of 5 patrons for the 9:00 pm show ona Thursday night. Embarrassed and weird? Not at all. I would have loved the whole movie theater alone.
So, this movie has the longest beginning ever. Very long, not only establishing a place and time but an artistic motif. The movie starts with a little more information than needed- although I really liked this movie and the pains that went to intricate details the intro was too long and some points of the movie had more detail than needed. Because of the lengthy into, however, the viewer is seriously "on the adventure" with the characters. As dark, different, depressing and all around weird this movie is even for a super hero movie I definitely left the movie thinking in my head trying hard not to scream it out "I WANT TO BE A SUPER HERO". (To my defense the weather was all foggy and dark when we got out and I felt like I was in the movie).
Enough about the beginning it is long and so is the movie. I won't tell you what happens just know this is an intense plot and not a make-out movie. Seriously the plot is more intense, aesthetically dark than the recent Batman movies.
Let us talk about the ending because I really liked it. This is a movie that a bad choice in the ending could have really screwed up the movie. More later... Breakfast...
