Re: What was the last movie you watched?
Very insightful review. Seriously.
Having never read the original material, nor having even heard of it before the trailers came out a few months ago I went into this movie without any major expectations.
I can sum it up as "the movie that does not go anywhere". The only interesting character gets killed for no discernible reason, the guy I wanted to die lived happily ever after, they have a character who is immortal and has super powers while the others are "cops in costumes" and most of the characters have the emotional responses of a plank of wood. The guy that owned the dogs was the only character that conveyed any convincing emotion.
I second that the "hallelujah" bit was over the top. It was meant to be an emotional scene of intimacy. I found it to be a totally inappropriate musical choice since it made the scene into a farce and that it hit all the wrong emotional queues. And a lot of the violence was excessive. The alley scene with the arm-breaking - wtf? Okay, super-heroes getting mugged and then beating up the muggers is amusing. Doing massive physical trauma and permanent, debilitating injuries to random strangers when they could have just beat them down? That kinda puts them on the other end of the moral compass.
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And there was either too much wang or not enough. If Dr Manhattan is going to run around naked, then he should either always be naked ("What do I care for modesty") or he should always be dressed (in either his suit or thong). Having him alternating between being uptight and swinging free detracted from the film. Supposedly, in the comic he gets less and less interested in being "human" but the film does not portray this. It is random, and nobody ever says "put some pants on".
Maybe I'm just missing a lot of information that made the comic awesome that didn't make it into the movie, but the impression that I got was of a flat narrative where the viewer has no real connection with the characters, hence does not care if they live or die or save the day or end up in a retirement home. Except the ginger - he was cool.
I didn't like the ending too much though.
