People have recently been telling me that I seem to share a great deal in common with the personality of Rorschach – and I’m beginning to agree with them.
I got to see The Watchmen today. Despite hearing generally mixed reviews tending to fall towards the lower side of the five-star critic spectrum, I actually would say that the film overall was pretty good. I’ve heard that the main problem that people had with the film adaptation was that it failed to deviate far enough from the graphic novel to be creative rather than just a narrated comic book – something I can’t comment on, as I’ve never actually read the graphic novel.
On the other hand, what I did find slightly off-putting were the hundred-and-seven sex scenes and Dr. Manhattan’s perpetual nudity, which I had been told to expect from several other friends that had seen the film…