Thoughts on Watchmen

Its been a while since I gave a movie review on this blog. I thought I would do "Watchmen" since I just finished it. I get this feeling about most superhero movies that they are divorced from reality (ok I know its a movie but still). The Dark Knight went some of the way in bringing a more grim outlook to these kinds of movies but I still felt that in the end it wasn´t dark enough. The stereotype about comic books are that they are for kids so then we call them graphic novels to juice it up a bit. Watchmen is not a children´s story. Nor is it a cookie cutter superhero adventure. It wasn´t written that way and when it was brought to the big screen it wasn´t portrayed that way. I didn´t like 300 (the director is the same) and I had this feeling going in that I wasn´t going to like this movie either. I did like this movie, in fact its one of the best I have seen in the last two years. The music choice was excellent as was the cinematography. Its funny, how many super hero movies use Bob Dylan? Usually the standard formula is to use whatever average and popular rock band is available. Instead this used really good music. I found myself sitting there thinking with all this great music when is Hendrix´s take on All Along the Watchtower going to show up and then at just the right moment it did.

Finally on the ending; excellent and the jokes about Ronald Reagan were spot on. "We don´t dignify absurdities" should be the media´s slogan.