Worst movie I've seen in the last 5 years

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2009)

I'll start off by saying I've never read the Watchmen comic.
This movie might have been a little more bearable with about an hour chopped off of it. There are many scenes that drag along presumably for 'dramatic effect'. If anyone is old enough to remember having to sit through the scene in the first star trek movie where the enterprise is unveiled you know what I mean.
It seemed like there were several scenes where the music was really out of place, and poorly selected or mixed. I mean, it takes place in the 70's, all the music is from the 70's, and then they start playing '99 luftballoons' ? I found the scenes with the Kennedy assassination and Kent State massacre in poor taste but probably younger viewers won't mind.
I get that it's a dark movie and a dark comic but the way the story is told you really have little empathy for anyone in the movie. All through the movie you don't really care who lives and who dies. There is no sense of pacing in the movie, it just seems to random speed up and slow down. It's one of those rare movies that has you tapping your foot impatiently waiting for it to end. The most positive comment I heard coming out of the theatre was a guy telling his date "It wasn't THAT bad".
YES IT WAS.