I'm ashamed to admit that today I have a hangover. My hangovers usually consist of all-over body pain that leaves me completely useless physically and mentally, so good luck to all those reading this journal.

Needless to say, I am never drinking again...at least until the next time.

So I come onto my page and don't even notice my pageview count has gone up a bit. I only noticed I got a DD when I read one of the comments saying 'congrats on your DD'. It took me a good few minutes before the lighbulb (forty watt, not very bright) flickered on over my head, which feels a bit numb at the moment.

So thank you soooo much and a great big hug to :icon$spinegrinder: who submitted it for a DD. Much love to you man. I won't be hugging you too tight for fear my arms will fall off...very fragile at the moment

Also thank you to everyone who has left comments and faved (not just the DD, but everything else as well) You're truly lovely, beautiful people. I'd tear up at this point...my legs are going numb.

By happy coincidence the DD is of Rorschach Half-Mask which you can find here: [link] creating a segue that leads up to my Watchmen Review. I'll try make it short

I went to see this a couple of days ago and first impressions were like some kind of dream you've had that you remember was fantastic, but can't quite remember the details A.K.A- my memory is shit. Well, apart from the movie not having any sound just before the fight at the start (at one point Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) turns up the volume on his onscreen TV - still no sound XD - much laughter from the audience as well as WTF is going on?!)

Sound returns and the rest of the movie continues without incident. Firstly, it doesn't feel like a 2h 45 minute movie, it just kind of sped by, which is a good sign and of course knowing what is missing from it and also knowing that there'll be a Directors cut that fills in a lot of the gaps I'm sure I'll love this movie even more. The overall look is fantastic, the sometimes sombre and dirtily energetic New York streets coupled against pristine, clinical interior sets of Dr. Manhattans lab and Veidt's office works well in contrast. There is a sense of choppy scene changes but frankly with the vast amount of information in the source material, I'm stunned that they managed to successfully turn what they had into a movie under 3 hours.

The performances from the majority of the main cast were brilliant. Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach/Walter Kovacs was a revelation. (Also helps he's my favourite character ) There were some dud turns as well which either fall flat or are hammed up to the extreme, mostly from secondary and minor characters but hey hum..you take the good with the bad and I didn't mind it so much, especially because most of the performances were top-notch.

I need to see this film again as I suspect that (like the Graphic Novel/comic series - pick one) enjoyment will be heightened with repeat viewings. There are some things that the movie added and subtracted to either great effect or it falls flat. Hell, I'm just going to list 'em.

The change to the Grice scenario where Rorschach is investigating a little girl's dissapearance I liked. It was short but seeing Rorschach pace back and forth, turning and twitching as his sanity is crumbling was a stand out. The cleaver in the head, although gruesome is a shocking moment and should be, so yeah, thumbs up for that.

The ending I thought needed to engage the audience a bit more. With more time in the movie, showing characters like the Bernies and more of Malcolm long would give more of an emotional punch to the horror that befalls them. As it is now, the impact is on the city and it's buildings, but not really on the human loss that occurs. It doesn't have to include bloody limbs strewn about the place just some kind of attachment to the inhabitants that were lost.

Now I can stomach blood and gore, what I dislike is lingering shots of mutilation (we get the point already!). I mentioned the cleaver shot was shocking and rightly so, and the Dr. Manhattan's-I'll-turn-this-human-inside-out was alright to show his power and his distance from any emotion that might be caused when such nastiness occurs-fine. However, showing an compound fracture in gory detail didn't do anything for me, neither did sawing arms off and keeping the camera lingering on the shot. Just showing Walter's vest sprayed with blood would have given the audience a clue as to what Big Figure was doing with his lackey. I didn't think it needed to be shown.

I enjoyed the music and the sex scene was silly but not overdone. My biggest complaint really is that the film needed to be longer.

Overall, aside from a few little rants I've already mentioned I thought it was a fantastic film, and I left the theatre with a big smile on my face and a bladder that was screaming to be used.

Oh and I'm doing a poll to see what you thought of the movie

Thank you and buh-bye for now.

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