"watchmen"

I saw Watchmen last night. I am one of the people who read Alan Moore's original comic-book story(*) when it first came out in 1986-1987. I had not looked at it since then, but it had left a vivid impression. In other words, I remember enough of it to be able to notice what the movie left out, some of which had to be left out, and some I wish had been kept in but the removal of which I can understand was needed for the telling of this version of the story. Unfortunately some of the major changes near the end made some of what was kept in the first half not really necessary, which is why that first half dragged around a bit. It'd have benefitted from some judicious pruning and addition here and there.

The final verdict?

I liked it, in some ways better than the original. For one thing, the main characters come across as flawed here too, but not so flawed that I thought of them as losers, especially the Nite Owl.

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(*) None of this it's-a-graphic-novel stuff from yours truly.