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I’m seeing a lot of articles about how Watchmen did not outperform 300 this weekend and I have to point out that 300 had a running time of 1 hour and 57 minutes, while Watchmen clocks in at 2 hours and 43 minutes, and I’m not sure if this includes credits or not. Since there are only so many times you can play Watchmen in a day it’s no wonder it came in just slightly under 300! No one is pointing this fact out!

Also I wanted to address all the bad reviews, if you read the majority of negative reviews it’s from people who really didn’t give a lot of thought to the material nor did they really pay attention like this guy from rotten tomatoes:

” Watchmen left me looking at the exit far more often than at the screen.”

Well maybe if you watched the screen and paid attention you might have noticed that the story was actually complex and required your intellect to be tuned in in order to process all the information presented. Watchmen is NOT a story that you can watch once and soak up everything the first viewing! It’s much more complex and you really need to pay attention and see it a few times before you can even begin to appreciate all the work that went into making this multi layered complex story!

I think Zack did an excellent job and I am very happy about the changes! Especially the ending! It was way more believable and made a lot more sense then the graphic novel! I fucking HATED the squid, it was so left field and out of no where that it made me wonder if Alan Moore simply got bored or tired and just wanted to end the novel, the end seemed always rushed to me and the whole conversation between Manhattan and Ozzy didn’t make ANY sense. Zack actually managed to clean up the loose ends and I loved that Laurie and Manhattan had one last moment before he is exiled. That was brilliant and it made so much more sense. I also liked the change in dialog between Adrian and Night Owl 2, Why would Rorschach warn Adrian anyway, it never made sense to me.

I have already seen the movie twice and on each viewing I catch some new nuance and detail I missed the first time around and I look forward to the BluRay version. I’m also very happy to see that the story was treated with respect and did not dumb down or try to explain to the audience too much, instead the film left many questions and fewer answers which at least to me, was a breath of fresh air.

Also, I wish Bubastis was cut from the film completely, only in the graphic novel did his presence make sense and I never cared for that fur ball anyway! He was more of a distraction and had no reason at all to be in the film, other then for the fanboys.