I caught Watchmen again on telly last night. I saw the first hour before I had to retire. There were another 2 hours after that - till 2am!
With Rorschach's grim narrative it always reminds me of a noir movie with a hard-boiled private eye. Its a great film and I had to look up some of the actors.
The chap who plays the Comedian has such a huge smile, I knew I'd seen him before this year and there he was. He's the swashbuckling CIA cowboy in the Rock's monster flick Rampage. I know he's been in many other things but I haven't seen them.
Molock is Max Headroom I think. Is that right?
The Watchmen is a slice of eighties paranoia when the cold war was part of our little lives. The idea of retired and weary super heroes is fascinating and the film takes it further by killing them off. I don't pretend to know the background to this flick at all. I haven't read the famous comic but I do appreciate how it might sit well in DC. I find DC's own roster of older heroes really alluring and I'm drawn to the old DC universe in general. So the reboot of the Minutemen into another band of heroes in the Watchmen - the Watchmen? - is very appealing to me.
I liked Bird Man for the same reasons. Michael Keaton/ Batman is fabulous as the tired old Bird Man of the title.
Retirement for super heroes is hard.
So to borrow a phrase from the movie, who has been watching the Watchmen?
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American Postscript:
In reply to watching the Watchmen....I was unaware that there were movies made of a comic I had paid no attention to.I recently bought this book for $8 rather than $40 not for the subject matter but rather to read/enjoy art by Dave Gibbons whose work I enjoyed when he was a fanzine artist in the early 70's.
A little light summer reading, when I get to it.
Cheers from America's Birthday!
Terranova47
