“Rorschach Diaries, currently writing this post. Its hot in Atlanta, 89 F as the report says.. but i feel it hotter, way too hotter… I gather up some friends and go to a movie at the University center. The woman at the counter sees our ID’s and lets us in for free… Its cold in here, only a few people around… we choose a place at the center of the hall. The light from the projector passing right over our heads, and then lights – camera – action. The curtains come to life.”
YES! the movie was ‘Watchmen’ and as the promo says “Who’s watchin’ them?”.. yeah right, the movie was full of crap so i wonder if anybody had really been watching them. The movie was of about 2 hours 30 minutes. Thats right, two full hours of pain-in-the-eyes! If a friend’s inviting you to watch that movie, i’d say think twice before you plunge in (even if its free). I’d say the movie really lacked substance. Its just a plain old theory, wrapped under the hood of a superhero which had somewhat complex ending – which the characters unsuccessfully tried to portray.
Starting from the lead characters in the movie , i couldn’t find anything superhero about them… no super powers like spiderman or superman, no special abilities of anysort or say they could’ve been easily replaced by talking apes from the rain forest who lived on nothing but bruteforce. By that i mean – only – bruteforce. The most of the actions only consisted of kicks and punches and one feminine punch would suffice to put down a relatively bulky convict. I’m not going against females by saying this. Ofcourse even i would go down if a strong built lady threw a punch at me.. but take a look at that actress in the movie. The roles were loosely stitched to the movie and there were a lot of extra things happening in the movie for example, a hybrid-sabre-tooth-tiger looking creature pops out of nowhere which looks quite interesting and it moves around and then disappears – nowhere to the seen in the movie again. I thought one of the heroes would fight that thing!
Another big disappointment in the movie was the soundtrack. It sucked: bigtime. Like there was an instance when two of the main characters are walking on the snow in some setting which looked like the north pole and then our of nowhere Jimi Hendrix’s ‘All along the watchtower’ starts to play in the background! I’m sure even Dylan would’ve thought twice before letting the director add his version of the song to that lifeless scene. I’m sure Jimi Hendrix would’ve shoved it up – you know where – in irritation. As a big music fan, I was totally irritated. I dont know if the script writer was paid enough because it consisted of scenes which were put in much effort to make it look good in mere desperation. The romantic side of the plot wasn’t romantic at all and the intimate scenes (with ‘Hallelujah’ playing in the background) was totally uncalled for.
So the bottom line is, if you’re thinking of renting this movie for the weekend – NO! Its better counting stars instead. Trust me on this one.
