A Masterpiece Misunderstood

Rating: 7/10 (14 February 2010)

This is the movie that made me realize that regardless of how much you stress your opinion about something on other people, and whatever fancy words or metaphors you use, whether they will share your opinion about said thing depends entirely upon them: their preferences, personality, and intelligence.
Watchmen is like Fight Club, Memento, the recent District 9, and 2001. You either think it's weird, boring, or disappointing and hate it. Or you find it fascinating, ingenious, and extremely misunderstood.
I fell into the latter category. I didn't think much of it the first time I saw it, but the second time, when I watched it with my brother who explained to me some of its many allusions and metaphors, I was speechless.
The image of the blood drop falling on the Comedian's badge suddenly became my favorite image from any movie. Rorshach's death now makes me cry like a baby and Dr. Manhattan's speech on Mars about miracles is the most brilliant thing I've heard in a film, ever.
Yes, Watchmen is the best movie I've ever seen, but it's also proof that no movie, regardless of how incredible you find it to be, will ever be able to please everybody. People will always have their differing opinions, and we should all just accept that and quit arguing about it "cough, Avatar, cough".