Film - I Watched The Watchmen
I didn't think I was going to watch The Watchmen, but in the end, I did.
I left feeling the cinema feeling as if I'd received a severe blow to the head with a rather large book, wielded by a deranged American gentlemen, who then ran away into the night. Some of the pages may have been missing, but even in my dazed state I recognised the book as The Watchmen.
I can't tell you if it was good or bad or whether I enjoyed it or not. Despite having seen it, I'd need to see it again, just so that I could work out exactly what it was that I watched...
What a strange experience.
Paul "No comment!" Scott
I left feeling the cinema feeling as if I'd received a severe blow to the head with a rather large book, wielded by a deranged American gentlemen, who then ran away into the night. Some of the pages may have been missing, but even in my dazed state I recognised the book as The Watchmen.
I can't tell you if it was good or bad or whether I enjoyed it or not. Despite having seen it, I'd need to see it again, just so that I could work out exactly what it was that I watched...
What a strange experience.
Paul "No comment!" Scott
posted by paulvonscott at 7:54 PM
3 Comments:
Ditto. I enjoyed I think but its really hard to comment on. Visually it was stunning anyway.
Yes, some scenes had me grinning, some scenes left me a little perplexed. For everything positive, there seemed to be something negative to stalemate it. I think visually, David Gibbons can be happy, Alan Moore, well, I couldn't see him enjoying this. A very odd film indeed, I could talk endlessly about it and still not really say anything.
I watched it feeling strangely neutral - unmoved - almost hypnotised into a state of neither happiness nor sadness. A state akin to boredom, but without any emotion as strong as that. I can honestly say that no other film has induced this state in me. Perhaps modern graphics and movie making techniques have enabled something to be mind-numbing, yet not induce conventional boredom, due to constant destraction - popcorn for the front lobes.
Looking at your comments ("I enjoyed it I think"; "perplexed"; "stalemate") this would appear to be the universal human experience (amongst a sample group of 3). In some strange way the producers appears to have created a new form of mind-altering drug, with similar effects on the user to a long-term hunger-strike, near-terminal sleep deprivation, or having been bitten (but not eaten) by a Romero zombie.
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