Wow Chainer those are like my exact words. Rorschach really couldn't have been any better. I don't believe there is an actor out there that could've done it better than it is. I agree about the ending though too! In the book after Adrian explains his plan the rest of them just kind of accept it and give a few sobs, but in the movie they really express "wow ozymandias, you may be right, but you are a TOTAL dick."

There were a few things I didn't like, especially the way they handled Dan+Laurie. The scene where Dan can't get it up was not obvious enough and a TON of people in my theatre burst out laughing because they thought he was pre-jaculating. I felt like a total asshole for wanting to stand up and say "wait guys, that's not what it looks like." Also, I knew the Black Freighter wouldn't be in the movie, but the News-stand guy and the comic kid don't have any audible lines in the movie.
Btw, I don't remember Nixon in the novel, does he even speak? Well there's maybe 10 minutes of him spread about the movie, and it's excruciating. The actor playing him is terrible, and the fake nose they put on him is ENORMOUS.

The soundtrack wasn't too bad, but there were a few moments, (the hallelujah thing, people also thought this was hilarious), where the soundtrack drew more attention than the scenes.

I really enjoyed it and I'm going to see it again on Sunday. What I liked most about it probably, is that the entire movie has this epic feel, even during the dull scenes between Laurie-Sally and the like. Apparently there were a bunch of people who got up and left but I never noticed because the movie had me glued to the screen the whole time. I'd give it at least an 8.

Wow, this movie really blew my expectations out of the water.  I just thought it was amazing how much they covered in (relatively) so little time.  Sure, there was a lot of exaggeration as far as the action and sex scenes, and some of the soundtrack was gaudy, but I thought it was very well done, and coherent at the same time.

I agree on Rorschach, his constant one-liners were pulled off in a pretty awesome way.  Dude had me laughing throughout the entire movie. 

Hey also, the slow motion stuff that I thought was over the top in the trailers, is kept pretty well in check. For the most part I didn't even notice it!

Just got back from the midnight showing.  

I'm going to add to the chorus here.  Rorschach was indeed, spot on.  I didn't care for the mask much, how they made it a constant shifting stain, rather than liquid, but.  I didn't like Laurie much; maybe the actor, maybe the character, I'm not sure what it was, but something about her just seemed childish and egocentric.  And though I thought the ending was more to the point when it came to the message, I didn't care for it as much.  The monster was something that I didn't suspect, using Manhattan as a scapegoat was formulaic.  

I really didn't care for the slow down, or that the characters could punch through walls and break countertops.  Adrian doing some of the stuff he did in the graphic novel was almost pushing it, but in the first few minutes of the movie, the Comedian punches through the wall, and Adrian slams his head against the counter, breaking a large slab of it off, just seconds before the high-speed knife fight.  Or when Dan and Laurie get attacked by the thugs in the alley.  The violence was over the top, even for what it depicted in the graphic novel.  

(The scene where it plays 'Hallelujah' was cheesy as all hell.)

It was a good movie over-all though.  

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also don't read lost girls yet. what aspect of watchmen appealed to you most? if you liked the plotting, reading something like top 10 or his brilliant run on swamp thing is a great bet. if you liked....art.....from hell or league or something along those lines. v for vendetta is way better than the movie.

I liked the plot a lot.  I've heard good things about Swamp Thing, so I'll check into that first.  

Why not read Lost Girls yet though?

Hayter needs to write a MGS script, I think between himself and Snyder, they could pull it off.  I honestly wouldn't mind seeing MGS filmed in this way.