wow... just wow...

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2009)

just finished watching the watchmen a few hours ago at an imax theater. as a forward, i am not familiar with the graphic novels... at the moment anyways.
This is the best film i've ever seen. There isn't a single thing about the movie that I would have changed. I am usually extremely critical of every movie, and just about every movie that i've ever watched there is something that I would have changed from the godfather, to lord of the rings, to shawshank, to the matrix, to cuckoo's nest, to pulp fiction, to slumdog, to 300. That is a hell of a league of movies. The weakest actor might have been the Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias character... that speaks volumes that all the character parts are superb.
story, cinematography, score, effects, violence... all brilliant Like i said, i haven't read the graphic novels, but in all fairness, when is a movie better than the corresponding book? Comparing it and judging it based on a different format is not a fair comparison. Compare it to any other movie, or even a comic hero type movie. the closest movies i can think of in a similar genre is batman begins which is i would say an 8 or 8.5, and the dark knight about 7 or 7.5 (although i haven't seen iron man)... this movie is a 10 until something better comes out.