GREAT movie - should not be compared to the graphic novel

Rating: 10/10 (23 August 2012)

That said, I'm about to make several references and comparisons to the graphic novel.
WATCHMEN is a film about costumed superheroes in the "real world". The Disney/Pixar equivalent of this is The Incredibles. You can also add Kick-Ass, Super, and Defendor to the list of films with similar concepts.
This film is dark, sexy, mature, violent and very well made.
Certain parts of the story were easier to "get" in the GRAPHIC NOVEL, yet other parts of the story were given more "wow factor"(?) by being in a very well directed film. They two art forms are (obviously) not the same. I think this is basically what certain people meant when they described WATCHMEN as being "unfilmable" - that a director could not tell exactly the same story with film as the writer and illustrator could tell in the graphic novel.
This film gets a 10 out of 10 from me, not because it's the most perfect movie ever made, but because of the sheer number of things about it that are fantastic - far too many to ignore.
I will say this though - if this particular style of story-telling doesn't fit you, there are many scenes that will throw you off and you'll have an equal number of reasons to not like this film.