Wow, first movie review in over a year but this movie’s worth it. Saw Watchmen this afternoon and it certainly lived up to all the Internet hype of the last year or so. It wasn’t your typical Hollywood superhero movie, in fact it was really nothing like any superhero movie I’ve ever seen. Dark and beautifully directed, it turned into a stellar all around movie. The story was amazing and had me hooked for all 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was a perfect length as I think they covered everything that needed to be covered. There were quite a few characters and they were all so deep and compelling you couldn’t help but to be drawn into this alternate reality where superheros just might not be so super after all. Who knew a superhero’s only problems weren’t just some girl troubles and a few bank robberies?

My only problems with this story were that I think the writers may have been a little stereotypical. I mean what would a comic book fan want more than some superheroes? How about some unnecessary graphic sex scenes with multiple O faces. Yeah, that’ll be cool, let’s do it. Boobies, boobies! Look, I love nudity perhaps more than the next guy but I found out today that I don’t like it in my movies where nudity probably shouldn’t be. Nothing signals my brain to stop thinking about how we’re gonna save the world like showing some pretty graphic sex scenes with a really, really hot Malin Akerman. That was #2. #1? If I don’t want to look at hot naked chicks in a movie, I really don’t want to see penis every other scene. Or ever. Doctor Manhattan, you’ve seen pants. I saw you wearing them when you had your suit on. Try keeping them on. I mean a loin cloth would suffice. Hell, a damn leaf. Just cover that thing up. And I don’t want to hear anyone try to justify it because he’s Doctor Manhattan and he’s above wearing pants or try to philosophy it or something. Look… if there was ever a time to make an exception in a movie, that was the time.

Hmm, looks like the “dislike” paragraph is longer than the “like” paragraph but that’s not how I really feel. I just can’t joke about the things I liked in the movie and penis jokes are always funny. I really, really liked this movie. Just know that it’s not Spiderman (I wish the people sitting behind me knew that) and it probably should be NC-17 (way too many kids going to see this film). There was a time when it sounded like this movie wasn’t gonna come out and it would have been a terrible shame if no one could see it. Can’t wait to watch it again. Hell, I may even have to find out how to get my hands on the comics.

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