So last Monday, I got a free pass to see Watchmen for free a few days early. Naturally, I feel I need to blooooooog about this. I'm sure there's enough
in depth reviews that I won't go into too much depth, just would like to say a few things. (Some stuff may be spoilerific or just not make sense without knowledge of Watchmen, but if you haven't read the comic by now, seriously why not? I actually bought a physical copy of it, but I read it in for free online first. There are ways you can
do this too.)
      First of all, I feel like enjoyment of this movie is probably inversely proportional to how many times you've read the book or how obsessed you are with it in general.
      Yeah, there's a lot of important stuff left out, but this is to be expected in pretty much any movie based off a book. Books are longer than movies. Get over it. Read the damn thing again if it means that much to you. There's only so much to be expected
      There are more fight and sex scenes in the movie than in the book. I have no information to support this, but this is my theory for how things went:
Zack Snyder: "Hey guys, I want to make Watchmen into a movie finally"
Evil Hollywood Moneybags: "You're the 300 guy right? Soooo... this will have lots of violence and some relatively pointless titties right?"
ZS: "But... those aren't in the book"
EHM: "TITTIES AND SLOW MO FIGHTAN"
ZS: "le sigh"
      Now most importantly, Watchmen parodies!
Watchmen Cartoon IntroPvP Comic Parody
WatchmeX - Wiki about the 90's XTREME comic and other spin-offs
And finally, Alan Moore
sabotages the movieP.S. Almost forgot one more!