Sean Reiser

Saw Watchmen last night and where I found it to be excellent and probably the best translation of the comic to the silver screen possible, I suspect there are a lot of disappointed non-geeks who really weren’t prepared for what they saw.

If you went to the movies expecting to see a comedy and were presented with Bridge Over The River Kwai you’d be disappointed, even though the film is one of the best films ever made. The same is happening with Watchmen. Watchmen, the film and comic, are not a Super Hero properties, it’s Noir. It’s social commentary.

From what I saw, there were 2 groups of people who saw the film: