Movie: The Watchmen

[amedia]

Our first in-theater movie of 2009, also our first first-run movie of 2009. We saw it with our philosophy colleagues and discussed it afterwards over Chinese food, which added a lot to the experience.

As for the movie itself? I didn't really have any expectations, except that it would be dark and violent (which it certainly was), but I was somewhat disappointed. They did such cool sophisticated things with the superhero tropes as well as the alternate history that I wound up being disappointed by how simplistic the political aspects were. I was also really annoyed by the self-righteous Dr. Manhattan and the Mary-Sue-Powerful Ozymandias. [TODS asked me afterwards if it was exciting to see him walking around naked and I have to say - NO! It was interesting to have a movie in which female nudity was all shadowy glimpses while full frontal male nudity was right out there, but it was CREEPY male nudity.]

Comments

[blackletter]

Well, we couldn't possibly have sexy or exciting male nudity in a show with a male audience, because that would be gay.

/cynical sarcasm

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I join you in your sarcasm!