Watchmen a HUGE disappointment.

*sigh* I have been looking forward to this movie since I first heard it was coming out...and today was my great day of anticipation...and I if it weren't for the fabulous gore I would have died of boredom.

Let me make myself clear. Being true to the source material doesn't mean keeping EVERY element of that material. If the Harry Potter movies had kept every twist and turn in the books, the SHORTEST ones would be 6 hours long each and noone could follow them on the big screen.

People have short attention spans when it comes to big screen entertainment and are not very good at following multiple plot lines and back-stories. This works fine in a book or graphic novel because you take the TIME to involve yourself in published literature. There's a commitment to reading a novel, graphic or otherwise, that captivates you for an extended period of time, not to mention you can pick it up and put it down whenever you feel like it. That helps. Read, think, analyze, read some more, think some more, and so on. It's a very involved process.

Movies are nothing like this. The action not only has to be fast paced, but so does the plots and it's elements. This movie, bless it's heart, is so true to the source material that every story has a story, and each story can be tied to other stories and different charectors, both current and previous, and the MAIN and MOST IMPORTANT story isn't properly dealt with until at least 2 hours into the nearly 3 hour long film! Yeah...boring. That's an understatement.

The acting was also pathetic. I've never seen so much deep content performed so half heartedly, with the exception of the charector of Reaurshak (I can't spell that....). He was fabulous, and truly violent to my heart's pounding joy. Yes...he and his violent gore kept me awake and at least remotely interested.

Blame the writers, the actors, but mostly the director. REDO! MAKE IT BETTER!

Nikki