Okay, so what did I like about it.
Jackie Earle Haley and Billy Crudup were dead-center-perfect in their roles. I've always heard Dr. Manhattan with a deep, sonorous voice, but the version
in the film has completely eradicated that. Dead-center-perfect. (And whoever did Rorschach's parkour was pretty damn brilliant too.)
The music was very good -- though I was rolling my eyes at the sheer inappropriateness of Hallelujah, a song about lost love, over the aforementioned
sex scene -- and I especially approve of the use of Desolation Row and the best recording ever of Leonard Cohen's First We Take Manhattan
over the closing credits.
It was acceptable. It was a good commercial for the graphic novel. And it had something approximating the thermodynamic miracles speech. But it was not the
film it needed to be.
Chris Davies.
Jackie Earle Haley and Billy Crudup were dead-center-perfect in their roles. I've always heard Dr. Manhattan with a deep, sonorous voice, but the version
in the film has completely eradicated that. Dead-center-perfect. (And whoever did Rorschach's parkour was pretty damn brilliant too.)
The music was very good -- though I was rolling my eyes at the sheer inappropriateness of Hallelujah, a song about lost love, over the aforementioned
sex scene -- and I especially approve of the use of Desolation Row and the best recording ever of Leonard Cohen's First We Take Manhattan
over the closing credits.
It was acceptable. It was a good commercial for the graphic novel. And it had something approximating the thermodynamic miracles speech. But it was not the
film it needed to be.
Chris Davies.