Fairly good adaptation

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2009)

It was an impossible job to adapt the graphic novel to a movie. However, this film does a fairly good job. "300" was also a very powerful movie, and "Watchmen" seems to be loyal and fair to the novel. "Watchmen" as a comic-book made a great impression on me when I was a teenager, so I was looking forward to seeing this movie. It didn't disappoint me, and I am probably going to watch it again. Especially Rorschach was quite impressive. I, perhaps, had a problem with some of the music, putting in Leonard Cohen and Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" doesn't necessarily capture the essence of the Watchmen comic book. Why not put in the quotes by Nietzsche and Jung then? And there's a quote from the "book of Job" as well. These were left out in the movie. Also I thought it was a bit funny that all the heroes fight in the martial arts style taken to the big screen originally by Bruce Lee. Very nice - sort of reminded about the science-fiction movie "Equlibirium". Some things were changed in the movie. Sometimes for obscure reasons. But anyway it would have been impossible to get it all in a 2-hour movie. Unlike other Alan Moore adaptations such as "V for Vendetta" the changes in this movie still keeps, I think, the essence of the graphic novel intact. Others might disagree about this. I don't know what Alan Moore thinks about this movie. Apparently he doesn't want to see it and I don't think his name was mentioned at all in the credits. However, it was very interesting to see this movie and I cried several times because of the intensity of the drama. I've heard that there is a Watchmen computer game out also. I don't know if it is any good though. Anyway, I am probably going to watch this movie again.