Rant

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2009)

If you went to this movie expecting another cookie cutter super hero flick you were probably very surprised and disappointed. Watchmen is unique. The hero's are all portrayed as actual people with actual problems. Much of the emphasis of the movie is on characterization instead of having one action scene after another.
If I hear one more person complain about Dr. Manhattan's nudity I will start breaking things. He is not human. He is detached from mankind. He is almost a deity. He was nude in the GN so he should be in the movie too. The movie certainly didn't emphasize it, so anyone who was flustered by his nudity probably just found their eyes drifting toward his dick a little too much.
I don't get it. Do you look at Michaelangelo's The David and giggle like a little girl? 50% of people in the world have a penis. Get over it.
additionally, I don't understand why people get bent out of shape about a blue penis, but no one seems to find the little girl who was raped, then butchered, then fed to dogs disturbing.
Oh yea, one more thing. If you brought a young child to this movie you are a terrible person and a bad parent. A little girl started crying in our theater when Rorshach was hitting the rapist with the meat cleaver, and I don't blame her. It doesn't reflect well on her mother however who brought her 6 year old daughter to a movie with brutal violence and near porn level sex scenes.