Watchmen

Simply put, snyder does not work for this story. Its critique and analysis of superheroes false flat when the directors style is as bombastic, showy and edge lord esk as snyder's which, I don't inherently have a problem with his style of directing. It works for certain projects but here it does not.

This is not meant to be cool yet snyder and the way he shoots, edits and choreographs it acts like it is.
It also has hilariously bad needledrops, acting and music.
Simply, can watchmen as a story work in film? Definitely but the publics need for action in a superhero movie becomes increasingly more damaging to the audience and films.
A significantly lesser instance, wonder man. I saw someone criticize that there is no action despite the fact it was never advertised as an action show.

While it doesn't work, the cinematography is great, the costumes design is excellent and I thought Billy crudup was good as Dr Manhattan. Rorschach's voice is really annoying to listen to for nearly 4 hours.
Oh yeah, I watched the cut that is 3 hours and 35 min long and yeah its not good.

(Also watch my new 79 min film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )

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