Did anyone hate Watchmen?

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I mean I hated that film with a passion! I hated all the characters except for that guy that dresses up in a bird suit.

I didn't think it was all that great. And Silk Spectre was just a complete b***h to Dr. Manhattan! He loved her and was trying his best to make her happy, but was she satisfied? NOOOO!

She would rather go screw some ugly old man who wasn't even half as intelligent!

Loved the comic series, one of the all-time greats.

The movie is a mixed bag. I only see it appealing to fans of the comic.

I thought it was good movie. Entertaining. Also thought the same as Cleverkitten lol.
The movie had some weird ass music to it though, tried way too hard to put in an off-beat era music score that really just made for some awkward moments.

Personally, I thought that it was one of the best adaptations that they could have done. But CleverKitten, you should read the original graphic novel before making any judgements. The reason why Silk Spectre flipped out was that she felt Dr Manhattan was distancing himself away from humanity, and in particular, from her (a bit rich, considering Manhattan dumped Janey Slater in favour of Silk Spectre, or rather, Laurie Juspeczyk). She was getting creeped out by him (in the graphic novel, he was merely continuing his particle physics research, and not working with Ozymandias) doing things simultaneously, and yet seeming so apathetic about things. Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl) was an old friend, and one whom she could relate to better.

It is also made more explicit in the graphic novel that Laurie is only kept around by the military to keep Dr Manhattan happy. Once he vanishes to Mars, they kick her out, and she feels extremely bitter. Her mother, the original Silk Spectre, needles Laurie, saying that the only difference between the H-Bomb and Dr Manhattan was that the H-Bomb didn't need to get laid every once in a while.

Loved the graphic novel, decided NOT to see the movie. I keep up on previews of genre films and when I started reading them I thought, no, there really is no way to capture this on film. Recently I asked a mate what he thought, and he just responded that it was all right. He never read the graphic novel, and thought the movie was just so-so.

I wouldn't say so-so. I have only a few actual movies in my DVD collection, and Watchmen was probably the only one I actually bought when it was released. I enjoyed it, but I can see where some critics come from. Certainly, the altered ending was something of an improvement, plugging a potential plot-hole as well as removing an element of the storyline in order to make the movie fit.

I watched it on video weeks ago. Just the first 40 minutes of it was enough to repulse me.

oh...it's in video? hmm...may rent it, just to see if (according to people I've heard about) it's more than 'a movie about a guy with a blue dork'..

It's about a bunch of seriously ****ed up superheroes. One's a right-wing murderous lunatic with a shapeshifting inkblot for a face, another is the same, except he's got a thing for smiley-face badges and works for the government, as well as being a rapist and murderer. Another is a rich boy with too many toys (think an indecisive Batman without the murdered parents backstory). The aforementioned blue guy is the only actual superpowered hero, who got disintegrated in a physics experiment, and one who is a determinist and moving away from humanity. Then there's a pretty boy obsessed with Egyptian and Greek history with a lot of money. And finally, there's a woman who is bitter with her mother for forcing her into the same business as her.

Erm, yes, I think most us are familiar with the characters by now .....

I was assuming pakled wasn't.

Actually, I read the first comic; the thing I remembered was Nixon having a 3rd term, and Woodward and Bernstien being found dead in a trash can...

Thought it was a one- off (and I read that issue decades ago), didn't know until they made more until the movie that it had endured so long.

No, I really heard more than one person (usually female) uncomfortable with the FF-n*dity. I'll check it out when I have money again...

All I can say is that we didn't really befriend the Soviets, at least until 1991 when the SU collaps, Nixon was not in power for that long of a time, and we most certainly didn't win Vietnam. All I'm saying is that either the creator wrote this before the war ended or after to try to make things better. Some of that stuff in the movie was so inapporpraite even for adults.

It was set in an alternative version of 1985, and Alan Moore wrote the original comic around the same time. The Cold War wasn't over then. Some screenwriters intended to make Watchmen set in modern times, but Alex Tse changed it back to the setting of the original comic. And you think the movie was nasty? You should have seen the Tales of the Black Freighter story within the original comic. Not to mention the original fate of New York City. Fried alien calamari, anyone?

Great movie in my mind, they just stuffed up the point of The Comedian (ah, he wouldn't feel guilty for getting a city destroyed).

Now, the right-wing lunatic (see: the man with Asperger's), is way cool.