alexandral | Watchmen / Хранители: I didn't know comics are supposed to be boring

Mr.Alexander and I watched "Watchmen". The film can be described in the best way using his words: "It all started really well, didn't it?". It did start really well but it ended as a most boring adaptation of a graphic novel I have ever seen. Hours and hours of the screentime were spent in monotone dialogues and monologues of infinite importance that were read at you by actors who seemed to be obviously thinking about their dinner arrangements whilst reading.

Story
The story itself is taken from an 80s graphic novel and taken FAITHFULLY, so this means that it is much more misogynistic, homophobic and disability-insensitive than the stories you are used to seeing on your screen. Consider the story of a woman who falls in love with her rapist, then deliberately conceives a "beautiful child" with him and who of course, forgives the rapist because he gave her a child!! (and all this in a boring way). Oh, and the only person of colour that I have noticed in the film was a prisoner meeting his death through a deep burn by the use of deep frying pan in the hand of Rorschach.

Special effects and cinematography
Some of the special effects were really good, but I have to note that when you see a person being annihilated in a fire or a force to particles for the first time it might come as an interesting special effect. But when you see this very same effect done several times though the movie you might start to wonder what kind of medication is the special effects man taking. Moreso, quite few of the special effects used in the film could be dated back to "Matrix".

There is an interesting cinematographic angle that Zack Snyder likes to use in his films. I don't really object to this:

300, Gerard Butler

Watchmen, Billy Crudup (? I am not sure that the blue guy's rare was Billy Crudup's ? )

Watchmen, Patrick Wilson

Music
As far as musical score goes , if L.Cohens Halliluah haven't been already murdered for me by Alexandra Burke, it would have been by the use of it in "Watchmen". And how did they dare to lay their hands on Mozart!!!!!! You were so right,

lage_nom_ai and

baleanoptera.

Controversy
There is much controversy going on about the film, if you are interested , please refer to FandomWank here and here and here, the movie seems to be just the thing for FandomWank. Apparently Watchmen's screenwriter David Hayter wrote this perl (I can not believe that someone in his right mind can write something like this):

"It may upset you. And it probably will upset you. And all along, we really meant it to. ...All this time, you’ve been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions... Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. ...You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.
Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.

Oh , David Hayter - may be they could have come for more if it wasn't so boring?