Alden Bates' Weblog

I want to see a movie for the first time since September on Friday night, and that movie was the long-awaited Watchmen. Having read the original book, I was keen to look out and see how much they'd changed it for the big screen. The answer was "quite a lot but not as much as I expected". The rest of the production was so perfect that I could accept the rest of the changes. The casting was particularly good, with the actors being, for the most part, a perfect match for their characters. Also, unexpected Garry Chalk. Cool!

Spoilers follow.

The most irksome part were the heavily-choreographed, post-Matrix fight scenes. The prosthetics they used on Nixon failed to convince though.

I missed the scene from the book where Rorchach jumps out of the fridge at Moloch. I suspect there'll be a fair few deleted scenes when the movie's released on DVD. Hopefully there'll be an option to watch an "extended cut" with them all put in the appropriate places.