Comments on: Watchmen Walkouts

By: Andrew Kranichfeld

Andrew Kranichfeld — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:12:57 +0000

I read the comic book the week before the movie and i don’t know why everyone is bitching so much. The comic book is impossible to translate well into a movie, which is why is took so long to be made in the first place. The viewer is missing all the insight offered by things like “under the hood,” Silk Specters scrap book, and the parallel story “The Curse of the Black Freighter.” The acting was good enough and the visuals were at times stunning. People who were expecting the best graphic novel to translate into the best comic book movie should ave realized that was never going to happen.

By: Andrew Kranichfeld

Andrew Kranichfeld — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:12:00 +0000

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:32:16 +0000

If you loved the source material, stop the bitching, he Zack did great for hat time he had to use. the ending was better than the book. Had he made all the changes to “modernize” the story, then everyone would bitch he didn’t do it like the book. Bottom line is like Zack himself would say, he made it to please “Fanboy” and also hope to draw in new fans. Watchmen never was Spiderman or Batman people…get a clue.

By: steve m

steve m — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:42:40 +0000

weighing in a bit late here, but there were no walk-outs at a saturday afternoon showing i attended. there was plenty of vocal disapproval though. i’d guess that something near half the audience i saw it with dis-liked the film and let the rest of us know it. i haven’t read the original graphic novel, but the film feels incomplete and lacking a fully realized context. that said, it certainly wasn’t boring in spite of its length and i’ll certainly see the longer version that’s been promised for dvd, if only to find out what snyder decided to cut and whether it really hurt the film.

By: steve m

steve m — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:42:00 +0000

By: Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment » Who walks out on the Watchmen?

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:34:42 +0000

[...] not the only one. The site PopTen is reporting similar walkouts as well: Everyone got in their seats – anticipation was high – [...]

By: Shren

Shren — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:05:47 +0000

I followed the link from the Chicago Tribune here- I agree with most of your gripes.

Also, I’m going to call CORPORATE COMMENT on Drew and possibly Chris Reed- I smell a PR firm!

By: Shren

Shren — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:05:00 +0000

I followed the link from the Chicago Tribune here- I agree with most of your gripes.

Also, I’m going to call CORPORATE COMMENT on Drew and possibly Chris Reed- I smell a PR firm!

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:01:34 +0000

Juan, I think your fabricating stuff. I attended the movie and there were no walk outs. For all you know, fans knew when to take a restroom break, but to proclaim a mass exodus is absurd.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Juan, I think your fabricating stuff. I attended the movie and there were no walk outs. For all you know, fans knew when to take a restroom break, but to proclaim a mass exodus is absurd.

By: Chris Reed

Chris Reed — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:39:01 +0000

This was a visual treat, an almost fascist story where the end justifies the means and some good, and some very bad acting. There are lots of reasons to pan the film but it is hard to get past just how beautiful the thing is.

By: Chris Reed

Chris Reed — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:39:00 +0000

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:49:23 +0000

I haven’t seen this yet and I guess my ambition to see it has decreased, but I haven’t read the g.novel yet either. I can say one thing, I’ve played the Watchmen demo and….it’s pretty damn fun, and I’m pretty sure it’s only $20 if you buy it online!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:26:31 +0000

….Or maybe the job should have been given to us so we could put our rings together and (with a hefty Matrix-like budget) made a better film.

By: victor

victor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:37:25 +0000

My big WTF was why Snyder would stick so ridiculously close to the source material (I recently re-read the book- this guy literally used the comic as his storyboards, mimicking most panels of the comic) AND YET completely change the ending?!?

For the record, I think the soundtrack sucked, but nothing sucked worse that Malin Akerman. They should’ve pulled an Aragorn on her, and pulled her out after realizing she was a suckfest.

Rorschach was impressive, though, as was freaking WILLOW as a gangster!

By: victor

victor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:37:00 +0000

For the record, I think the soundtrack sucked, but nothing sucked worse that Malin Akerman. They should’ve pulled an Aragorn on her, and pulled her out after realizing she was a suckfest.

Rorschach was impressive, though, as was freaking WILLOW as a gangster!

By: hawkesklein

hawkesklein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:30:58 +0000

for the first hour and a half I thought Malin Akerman was Lucy Lawless.

By: hawkesklein

hawkesklein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:30:00 +0000

for the first hour and a half I thought Malin Akerman was Lucy Lawless.

By: Ji-Un Kwon

Ji-Un Kwon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:24:59 +0000

I didn’t finish the novel before Friday, but I went to the movie anyway. Adaptations are tricky and I’ve never been a believer in comparing one medium to another.

But I agree. I thought it was decent, just on its own. Tonally, this seems like complicated material to begin with. But nothing was jarringly bad or offensive, though Malin Akerman tries her darndest. Man, she’s awful.

So yeah, Snyder did all right. But he does need to chill on the slow motion.

By: hawkesklein

hawkesklein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:13:56 +0000

Yeah. The acting was terrible. I imdb’d this and the only person I’ve even kind of heard of is Billy Crudup who was fantastic in “Almost Famous” but was a weird blue CGI guy in this so I’m not sure if that even counts as “acting.”

The one thing that I really did like was the music. I cherished the few 30 second spots where they played 80-s hits at an insanely loud volume. It drowned out the boos from the audience.