Watchmen
After reading all the shit on the internet about the wildly mixed reviews, I have two things to say.
1. I loved it. The three hours went by like it was a half hour.
2. The changes made perfect and very reasonable sense.
You cannot translate a book to film in its entirety. If you did this with any book, the resulting movie would be 100 hours long, and frankly would make it suck. Who wants to visually consume the minutia detail of the written word? For once and for all, they are completely different mediums, and should be handled differently. Apples and oranges, yadda yadda yadda.
Lord of the Rings was brilliant. Watchmen, though having its faults, was great.
Zach Synder did a great job. Period. Fanboys should try to think just how hard it is to bring anything to the silver screen. To keep any original idea intact, much less, wholly intact, is nearly impossible. Too much money involved.
Soooooo for all the reviews out there that beat the movie up over this or over that, whatever. It doesn’t make it any less of the film that it is.
And it is great.
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