Leebo has seen the massive, blue dong of WATCHMEN!

I have watched the unfilmable WATCHMEN.

It was pretty watchable, until the film burned to death in the middle of the movie.


That's not a review. That's what literally happened.

The film stopped and then burned to a crisp on screen. I haven't seen that since the 80's.


The film stopped, burned to a crisp, and then it took a while to get someone in the projector booth. So, we watched a thin piece of film flap against the lamp, cascaded by a burned outline around the sceen. Finally, someone came in and fixed it. The delay was minimal, yet distracting.


In this age of DVD's and such.... why are we still using actual film at the theater? I'm shocked that our technology still hasn't solved the same problem that theaters have had since their inception. This is a brand new damn theater too.

Wierd.

So, after about 5 minutes, the film was back on and it rocked.

I have to admit, I really liked the film. I was prepared to nay-say it like the geek crowd seems to be doing. But I won't.

It was a worthy effort, I was never bored, the changes they made really didn't bother me too much, and I walked out completely entertained. It was pretty faithful to the subject matter. They did a great job with their almost 3 hour movie adapting a graphic novel that takes 5 hours to read.

It was a helluva movie, I loved it and want to see it again. Jackie Earle Haley absolutely nails it as Roscharch and he's the real reason I want to see it again. No, really. Seeing Malin Ackerman naked has absolutely nothing to do with it.

And speaking of naked, you see Dr. Manhattan's massive blue dong throughout the movie.

Now, I don't care who you are, I don't care what your sexual orientation is (for the record Leebo is mega-straight), but, well......a massive blue dong in a movie is just distracting. Moreso than in the comic. In the comic, its smaller and I can just turn the page. On a huge movie screen, it's just there...dangling over me.

Odd. Slightly unnerving as well.

But despite the impending hoverage of Dr. Manhattan's Long Island on display before me, I still want to see the movie again. And any movie you want to see again is good.

And for the record, I only saw Frank Miller's abortion of THE SPIRIT once.

It truly is one of the greatest comic adaptations to film. I totally recommend it for fans and non-fans of the graphic novel, and fans and non-fans of massive blue dongs as well.

Two thumbs up.

Yes, those are thumbs.