Who watches the Watchmen?

Unless you have been living under pop-culture rock (I hear rent is cheap), you know that WATCHMEN came out on Friday.  Comic nerds (ie-me) have been waiting for this movie to come out and the general population was...well...I think they were just fucking curious.  As previously noted...i was fucking skeptical.  Saturday night I saw this movie.  My doubts were wrong.  Although the movie is not without its flaws, it was fucking awesome.  So from here on out are spoilers.  You've been warned.

Awesomeness...

-Dr. Manhattan, the Comedian, Rorshach were PERFECTLY cast. Dr. Manhattan is a total sentient being, the Comedian is a guy who kills pregnant ladies and somehow you symathize with him, and Rorshach...well he was just fucking awesome. Fuck it, I'll just go ahead and say all of them were perfectly cast.  Except for a few moments which we will get to in a bit.

-The entire opening scene.  You get the sense of the minutemen, where pop culture is, and how these heroes are viewed in society.  Im' stoked for the DVD to try catching all the little freeze frame moments that surely exist.  All to Bob Dylan.

-it stayed remarkably close to the comic.  Almost to a fault.  They really did put as much of the comic into the movie as they could.  Even the dead dog which I thought would surely get cut.

-Fight Scenes.  This shit isnt spiderman.  Bones going through street-thugs skin.  Broken necks.Bullets breaking glasses.  It was fucking awesome.

-Malin Ackerman.  She deserves her own section because I would do horrible things to her.

-They did not dumb it down.  This was my big fear.  Would they dumb it down to draw in a bigger audience?  Hell.   No.  All the same messages are still here.  And they are all fucking awesome.  

NON-Awesomeness

-the soundtrack.  Aside from Bob Dylan and MyChem, it seems like they were trying to decide on the most cliche song to put in the scenes.  "Hello darkness my old friend" during a funeral.  Seriously.

-The mars scene.  When Silk Spectre and Manhattan are on mars, its supposed to be an intense, heartfelt plea to him.  Please, Save human life.  Instead, it just seems like she tell him "oh, well fuck off is you don't want to save the world."

-The ending.  OK, So I totally understand why they couldnt do the giant squid.  I get that.  But I think they could have done something even better.  It just doesnt make sense to me...I know New York was attacked as well, but why would the russians have any issues with what happened if it were americas own weapon?  isnt that kind of just a "wow, sucks for you" scenario?

-Ozymandis should have been a truly arrogant son of a bitch.

-No newspaper vendor/kid reading at hydrant except for a brief cameo.  Hopefully this is fixed with the extended dvd.

DID NOT BUG ME

-blue man junk (of you were a god you wouldnt wear pants either.)

-NITE OWL kind of looking like he could never win a fight.  If anything, it made it more interesting

I could pick apart this movie for hours, but the bottom line is, GO SEE IT!  The non awesomeness is so minimal...it doesnt even really matter.

9/10 Stars

I need some sleep now, heres the shuffle...

10-Hellogoodbye-Homewrecker

9-Alkaline trio-Loust and rendered (Acoustic)

8-Gym Class Heroes - Need a place to run

7-Say ANything-The Futile

6-Descendents-Rotting out

5-Weakerthans-PAst Due

4-Andrew WK-I love NYC

3-The Movielife-Hey (XFM Radio Session)

2-The Cure-One more time

1-Less Than Jake-Awkward Age

Goodnight