Saw Watchmen this evening. I thought it was a really good flick, with caveats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have not read the book, you probably shouldn’t see the movie. It’s a baffling story at the best of times … and it requires time to percolate. One of the great things about the book is how it forces the reader to back up, re-investigate things in earlier chapters, and generally sit with it for a bit. Since that’s impossible in a movie’s inexorable forward march – you really need to do that work ahead of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further, if you did not like<\/em> the book, you will probably hate<\/em> the movie. It’s a very faithful screen adaptation, in which they only did away with pieces that would have taken another whole movie to fit in. The end product – a long-ass (remember the row about Dances With Wolves and how it was three hours long?) and beautiful tribute to the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a good time. It was loud and long and sexy and violent. BOOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saw Watchmen this evening. I thought it was a really good flick, with caveats: If you have not read the book, you probably shouldn’t see the movie. It’s a baffling story at the best of times … and it requires time to percolate. One of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}