bad bad bad bad movie

Rating: 1/10 (6 March 2009)

This was bad. After the first boring 15 minutes, I just wanted to go home, but didn't. My views on it: good performances: Night Owl, Rorschach, Manhattan. Almost decent: Ozymandias, Comedian. Poor performances: Laurie, and Carla Gugino's character. It's a bootleg bad copy of the book, they changed, well, everybody knows already THAT what they changed. It simply makes no sense, here's why: they strove to show every single frame of the novel, but the way the characters interact is superfluous. The music, from different eras, is badly weaved with the scenes, and it (the music) gave me a bad headache. The characters are shallow, Rorschach is depicted as a murderer, which he is not. There's no chance to see how much Laurie really hates Rorschach. Carla Gugino's character is poorly performed, despite the undeniable beauty and talent of the actress, I wonder what happened to her. Manhattan is not godlike in any sense, just some sort of a mutated hyper-powered arrogant human being.
There's the change in the climax of the story, also. Just awful.
I see this movie as "a school representation of the Watchmen graphic novel", only with sophisticated special effects. Makes me think that what was successfully be done with just pen and paper, is not attainable even when resorting to expensive digital effects.