{"id":891,"date":"2009-03-03T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T00:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=891"},"modified":"2009-12-28T03:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:09:22","slug":"watchmen-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Watchmen (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my normal Mondays involve some beer, some bar food, and some zombie slaughter. It is a pretty sweet deal, y’know? This Monday had its differences, though, in that I skipped the beer and food alike in favor of a brief, ultimately successful struggle to get the media company to honor the passes they had sent out for a sneak preview of Watchmen<\/a>. (Okay, technically, we relied upon the kindness of strangers. But the important part is, everybody had a seat!)<\/p>\n

So I watched it for something like two hours and forty-five minutes, and I’ve spent the subsequent day or so trying to figure out what I can possibly say about it, that I haven’t already said<\/a>. The layouts and scenery shift constantly between starkly beautiful and grimily seedy with almost dizzying regularity, as a perfect counterpoint to the characters and their actions and motivations and essential, almost unstoppable humanity.[1] It’s a highly political and moral tale set at the height of communist paranoia in an alternate, superhero-laden 1985, and the thing is, I really don’t want to say any more than that because it’s worth coming to fresh.<\/p>\n

But if you’re one of the people who didn’t come fresh, because you’ve already read Alan Moore’s original book from which this movie was drawn, I’ll say this much more: it is very probably the most faithful and effective adaptation of a literary work I have ever seen.[2] Got anything going on Friday or maybe Saturday? At least, anything you can’t cancel? Because, go see this.<\/p>\n

[1] I might be gushing. But the story and the characters really are that good.
\n[2] And I was pretty happy with almost all of Peter Jackson’s choices on the Lord of the Rings movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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