Watching Watchmen

Eventually I will take the time to discuss my Watchmen movie-going experience in-depth (and offer my thumbs up or down, if I can ever get the damn thing to stop hovering somewhere in the middle), but for now here's a pretty solid review (surprisingly) from Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman.

I agree with almost everything he has to say, though, as mentioned, I do hope to nuance some of the suggestions with my own review (in time...).

"...even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay this faithful to a comic book....[Snyder] doesn't move the camera or let the scenes breathe. He crams the film with bits and pieces, trapping his actors like bugs wriggling in the frame."

"On the page, Watchmen was a paranoid, mind-tripping pastiche...What gave the graphic novel its hint of metaphyiscal cachet is the way that it collapsed chronology...A no-future nihilism bled from the very grain of Moore and Gibbons' pop vision of the 20th century."

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20262574,00.html