I saw The Dark Knight on opening weekend on IMAX and had to settle for terrible seats on the left aisle, which sucked. This time, I'm going to wait until the anticipation and hype dies down before I go see the Watchmen. From the looks of it, it seems to be faithful to the visual style of the graphic novel. How well they adapted Moore's writing remains to be seen. Now, if only somebody would develop Neil Gaiman's Sandman series into a film franchise.
[Update] The L.A. Times blog has compiled a number of reviews for the film from sources as broad as comic book writer/novelist Brad Meltzer, the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, the Village Voice's j. Hoberman, EW's Owen Gleiberman, Empire's Ian Nathan, Time Out NY's David Fear, Newsweek's David Gordon, and the comic book press.
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[Update] I saw Watchmen last week and to be quite frank, I was bored. I think that people who haven't read the graphic novel would enjoy it more than those who have read it. The visuals were nice though. Rorshach and Dr. Manhattan came off as the most sympathetic and multi-dimensional characters of the masked vigilantes in the comic. Not surprisingly, they are the same in the movie.
