How good do comic book movies get? You shouldn’t consider The Dark Knight to be a comic book movie, because it’s not, because it’s intended to be a full-blown thriller with little resemblance to the original material. So now, how good do comic book movies get? Was Spiderman good? Or The Fantastic Four? Or The X-men? With all due respect to those huge mega-movies, I honestly don’t think that they come even close to Watchmen.
Most of the crap that this movie gets from the viewers and reviewers is not fair. Not all of it. Surely there’s some poor acting and the plot is not entirely the same as in the original and some of the strong imagery didn’t transform but overall I thought that the movie did what it was supposed to do. The characters are the same, the moral questions are the same, so the whole movie feels the same as the comic book. Even a bit “cooler” maybe, because of the artistic style of the movie, with the slow motion, music and fight scenes.
Obviously, it had to have those fight scenes to be kick ass, otherwise the movie would seriously boring for the most part (at almost 3 hours, that would be bad). So yeah, I believe that Watchmen is pretty much as good as comic book movies can get.
