@Snivelus. Didn’t realize that there was a specific reading list to be a “geek”. LOL.

Look – my review was of the movie and not the book. As someone who really, really wanted to like the movie, I was incredibly disappointed. I can only imagine the perspective of the non-geeks viewing the movie.

I’m really sad to hear that you didn’t enjoy the movie but it sounds to me like it never really had a chance with you anyway, considering it sounds like you went in expecting something along the lines of Superman/Batman/The X-men and got a movie about broken, disfunctional people trying to cope in a world that sometimes makes no sense, and facing a crisis that’s so horribly brilliant it makes you sick to your stomach.

@Mark Green – No one has the right to take your geek card away from you for anything you said, hell.. i HATED the X-Men movies to the point that i almost refuse to acknowledge their existance (this also goes to those movies that George Lucas made and accidently called Star Wars movies)

I highly reccomend the book to you though, i think for people that haven’t read it and would like to better understand the movie (That are willing to give it a proper go) reading the book is a way to expand your appreciation.

I think you took what you expected the film to be about over what it is actually about.

KAthy: I hope you’re joking. If not, then you are incredibly uninformed as to what you were about to see.

I never read the graphic novel, so I am by no means a fan boy disappointed about how the adaptation was handled. However, I am a “geek” and really was excited to see the film.

The visuals were, for the most part, stunning. Great use of CGI.

The story, however, was horrible. The “alternate reality” was very unbelievable – to the point of being insulting to my intelligence. The ending was, at best, unsatisfying and, at worst, just plain ridiculous. I do want to read the graphic novel…. I just have this feeling that Hollywood must have butchered it to produce such a horrible product.

Plot holes. Need I say more?

The pacing was akward and there were too many flashbacks. Can I say “too long”? That would be an understatement.

Perhaps, this film would have been more relevant in the early 80’s, but it certainly does not translate well into our time. Especially, given the benefit of hindsight to history.

I love action movies and, for the most part, have no problem with blood/gore (in fact, I think it tends to add more realism, so from that standpoint, I guess that I am somewhat of a fan). However, everything here was fairly gratuitous and excessive.

The characters – did anyone real give a crap about any of them? Perhaps, Night Owl was the most sympathetic character. But even then, there really was no attachment. At the end of the movie, I didn’t care about what they did to Rorshack (sp?) other than it just seemed plain ridiculous.

Oh…the constant speech-making by each of the characters. Give me a break. I kept thinking “oh boy, not again” every time a character would open their mouths.

So, how would you react if you found out that your mother voluntarily had sex with someone who had previoulsy beat her up / tried to rape her and that her father was the rapist/thug/murderer Comedian? Well, if you were the actress in this movie, you might shed a fake tear or two and then act like no big deal. Shouldn’t the revelation have been devastating? Putting that aside, how in the world was it a necessary part of the story? Just seemed to be a story line that lead to no where.

I will probably have nightmares about Dr. Manhattan and his ever present “blue manhood”. Was that really necessary? Just found it funny. Perhaps some finer point that the graphic novel would have told me about. I did find it strange that he would sometimes where his iron underwear or get dressed up in some scenes, but for the most part, just let it all hang out.

Horrible sex scene in Archimedes. Plain bad.

OK. I guess you can revoke my geek card. Just hated it.

No way you can compare it to the Dark Knight or Batman Begins. Those were actually well done movies.