Monday, March 9, 2009

WATCH MEN


You better be wearing a watch when you go to this movie, because you will have to keep looking at it from time to time wondering when is this damn piece of audio visual crap going to end. You are better off watching a group of gurkhas saying, “Shaabji, Shaabji” and laugh at that, than watch this movie.

Its gory, its dark, its boring [mostly], the action is very limited but very well choreographed [if they had added another hour of action the movie would have been watchable], and it has some heavy philosophical claptrap about human nature. The characters do nothing for you than talk about their problems, [like I don’t hear enough of that in real life with the recession] and these guys are like the worst wannabe superheroes ever.

The one superhero who has super powers is Dr. Manhattan and boy, does he give you the ‘blues’. The idealistic twaddle is too heavy and I think you would need to have a 175+ IQ to understand any of his monologues. Then there is the loser Night Owl who makes me wonder, how such people can ever be superheroes, and Silk Spectre who does nothing but complain and whine and then walk around in a body hugging suit as eye candy. Rorschach and the Comedian do have some depth as characters but the plot does not give them scope for it to be explored. The other characters are not mention worthy.

Don’t waste money on this one. But if you do dislike someone send them to watch this movie by all means. If Ayeshu [my sis in law] had a gun she would have shot down all the characters and then gone after the director and writer and I think I just about escaped being shot down for taking them for this movie.

Don’t come for this one. Go watch MEN instead.

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