Woody Allen's Watchmen

Watchmen hasn't been getting the best reviews, but Slate thinks it could be worse. What if Woody Allen directed it! Allen's would be set on the UWS, of course, and the site imagines a romantic comedy "where wealthy dermatologist Dr. Herbert Manhattan (Allen) suffers a freak accident with his dermabrasion machine. How will his blue skin and omnipotence affect his relationship with beautiful but scatterbrained silk importer Laurie Juspeczyk (Scarlett Johansson)?" Other what-if scenarios include the bromance-obsessed Judd Apatow, Quentin Tarantino, Tyler Perry, Sofia Coppola and Pedro Almodóvar—but who else would(n't) you like to see reinterpret it? How about a Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan directed Bollywood take on the comic? A Dr. Mumbai dance number may be just what this movie needs.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on March 9, 2009 12:07 PM

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ComicsRMe

i really enjoyed the movie, but i never read any of the comics. definitely thought the opening credits deserved the best review though. they should have used them for trailers instead of the ones they used. i saw a video that gave a lot of perspectives on the movie.

babyhitler

saw it. I'd give it a 4/4 for a comic movie adaption cause the source material was so hard to transfer over but a 2.5 as a standalone movie. If you didn't read the comic it would have been hard to understand. Hell, i've re-read the watchmen 5 times already and I'm still amazed at how much I've missed. I just realized that that when Rorshcach was younger he wrote a school report stating that he thought dropping the bomb on japan was good for mankind cause it saved a lot of lives but when he was older he reversed that policy. Gives him a new dimension. The only bad parts of the movie were the obvious music cues like ride of the valkyries in vietnam and Malin akerman not being dramatic enough for the dramatic parts. She was supposed to be ditzy for the most part though so that was good. Also, not enough dead bodies at the end for the emotional resonance of the comic.

ANGRYGOD11

SPOILER ALERT

ALWAYS WARN THE READERS WHO DIDN'T SEE THE FILM, YET

The director decided it's too soon after 9/11 to show dead bodies on the streets.

Rocknrope

You know how I know you're gay? Instead of a costume, you painted yourself blue and prance around with your dong out.

Felix Hoenikker

Rock out with your tachyons out!

PKMKII

How about a Saturday Morning Cartoon version of Watchmen?

FunChop

I saw the Watchmen on Saturday, I'd give it two out of four stars at best. It's really too bad because the actual graphic novel is brilliant. The adaptation failed miserably presumably because Alan Moore wasn't involved. Alan Moore's comment from Wikipedia:

My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way: in an armchair, nice and cozy next to a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee."