Disgusting - a good argument for censorship

Rating: 1/10 (19 March 2009)

I went to see this movie with friends, completely unprepared. I had never heard of the comic before - I understand that for its fans things may be different, however for me this was, hands down, the worst movie of my life. It's not just bad, it's disgusting and evil.
Cinematographically speaking, the movie is terrible; adding elements such as actors, writers and a decent director could have helped. The viewer is forced to sit through 2 hours 45 minutes of bad acting, unbelievable dialogues, puzzling plot and violent beatings all choreographed the same way (hit right, hit left, hit up, hit down, repeat ad libitum). The final plot twists are ridiculous and they are mixed with silly, stupid, pretentious musings on the destiny of humanity. In the meantime, the director resorts to all the tricks of whoever has to fill a meaningless movie, including special effects, random flashbacks (some repeated three or four times) and videoclips.
So you get in the middle of three extremely boring hours that you wish you had spent doing something else, but that's not even the worst part of it.
The worst part of it is that this movie is filled with completely gratuitous violence: not just lakes of blood everywhere, but a 6-year-old girl torn to pieces and given as food to dogs, with an insisting picture of her torn leg in the jaw of the dogs; with a guy whose hands are cut with a jigsaw and left there; with countless men splattered, spread on the ceiling, exploded from inside, killed or tortured by the "superheros", often just for fun; of a pregnant woman killed with a gun by her man as a solution to get rid of her; and with the beating of a woman, up to filling her face with blood, followed by a meticulously shown rape; and tens and tens of similar scenes.
All of this, really without any plausible reason - it's not necessary to show all this blood for the story, and for what regards character development and messages from this movie, well there's none of them anyway. So the only plausible reason for all this violence is to allow the director to cover up his mediocrity by filling up the void with gory visual effects.
It was terrifying to me to see that no one else in the theatre (well there were just 10 people on 750 seats, and this it's the premiering week - what an outstanding success) seemed to be troubled by this kind of show, and there were even a couple of people laughing at the image of a guy killed by dropping his head into boiling oil, then letting him suffer in atrocious ways on the spot, of course shown up to the very detail. I thought, how nerd do you have to be to laugh at this, rather than be disgusted? In the end, Watchmen is the best supporting argument in favour of censorship that I've seen in twenty years, and a clear proof of the degradation of Western civilization; even I (and I am a pretty open minded person) went out praying for more control on what is shown on our screens, and being disappointed since I could not puke on the floor of the theatre (something I really felt like doing several times) then leaving my puke just there and possibly even spreading a bit of it on the silver screen as a sign of disapproval.
I think that the director Zack Snyder should be forced not just to watch this junk in an endless loop forever, but to give his own daughter as food for dogs after cutting away her hands with a jigsaw - then we'd see what he actually thinks of ultraviolence. I have been lucky enough to never see 300, and I swear I'll never be, nor I'll be watching any other movie by this immoral director or by any other person involved in the making of Watchmen. Be warned.