The Watchmen: A Review
So last night the wife and I went to go see The Watchmen. I had seen the previews before and I thought it looked pretty good, I didn’t realize that it was a nearly 3 hour long film, but there was a ton of hype about it. Since I am personally not familiar with the Comic Book series or the Graphic Novels I went in fresh, the only thing I knew about the film was that it was about superhero’s and the possibilities of a nuclear war.
I don’t want to give too much away, but the story spans from the last half of the 20th Century, it covers a lot of political changes and things, and the gist is this: Richard Nixon is elected for his 3rd term right at the beginning of the film–after repealing the term limits on the Presidency. Dr. Manhattan is a blue superhero that can see his own future and past all in relative time, teleport himself, other people, and objects to other locations (including Mars), and split himself into multiple copies of himself (so that he can simultaneously make love to his girlfriend-who is very very hot- and work on his energy producing mechanism that is meant to save the world). So he is working on a project to help create an energy source that will, in his mind, save mankind from nuclear war and from destroying the earth—of course there are twists that I can’t tell you about.
Bill Maher’s Religulous recently came out on DVD, I rushed to get it as soon as it came out just in case one of our freedom loving local fundies decided to buy them all out so no one would be exposed to it’s deceptions (please read into this a ton of sarcasm). I wanted to see it in theaters but I couldn’t find a theater with the balls to show it within 100 miles and for some reason the Torrent sites were empty until just recently.
