Interesting but just not my cup of tea

Rating: 6/10 (6 March 2009)

I went out and bought Watchmen the complete 12 episode comic so I guess I actually saw this movie before I saw this movie. It was interesting but just not my cup of tea. I knew I'd have difficulty with it having no named Hollywood stars to draw me into the characters. The acting was okay but how good an actor do you have to be to say most of the dialog. I have to agree with those who say sometimes sticking strictly to the comic is a mistake. Cronenberg took a graphic novel ie History of Violence and gave a cohesive story with a character, Tom Stahl, that we could root for. This is a disconnected group of people none of whom have any redeeming values and we're suppose to think that's great because they're 'real human beings'. Well being a hero isn't about being a human being, its about being more than you think you could be, and I don't mean more self serving.
The visuals were okay but the fight scenes were overly stylized, violent and make these so called non superheroes look like they had real powers. Probably will do big business this weekend but will fade away like so many of these flicks do ie Sin City, 300 etc. By the way there was a mass exodus from the theater where I saw the movie as soon as the credits started to roll.