Or I could just read the comic again

Rating: 4/10 (8 March 2009)

Fist of all I am not that opinionated a person usually, I think I have only commented on like 2 movies before this and I use IMDb every day but... Watchmen the movie really adds nothing to the already very good comic. I was hoping to go watch a movie adaptation that was you know....entertaining. But all I got was pretty much what I had already read except on the big screen. While it is probably easier to turn a comic rather than a novel into a movie I think it is a mistake to do nothing to the comic and just film it as is, especially a comic like Watchmen that was already wordy complex and very loooong.
Maybe the fan boys of this comic who are very precious about the text will approve but I found it (save about 3 scenes) too long and boring, with unusually ill placed graphic violence, which I usually love and weirdly over emphasized sex scenes(guessing some pervy producer was involved there). So many of the scenes could have been cut as they repeated points which had already been made (yes we get it, the blue dude finds it hard to understand humans anymore! OK society is complex and contradictory just get on with the freaken story!).
If the movie really adds nothing to the graphic novel, which already has a massive audience, then why make it? I was really looking forward to this adaptation but I felt I was just reading the first draft before you know...they edit it down and make it entertaining, make it watchable...like a movie. Hmmm maybe I'll just go watch Iron Man again that was not so pretentious and actually entertaining. Anyway I'll get over it :) oh 300 wasn't great either...