By Dan Mecca

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been watching these clips Warner Bros. have been putting out, and the whole thing’s just not registering with me. Having read the graphic novel (very recently), I am still reeling from the effects caused by what Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons offer the reader throughout the entire narrative, up to and most definitely including the brilliant finale. By book’s end, there is so much to consider and think about; so much to discuss with your friends.

And why? Because the picture the novel paints, literally (and psychologically), is so vivid and real that it forces the reader to take Watchmen seriously.

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Well, this doesn’t look good. As reported by Jeff Wells on Hollywood Elsewhere. Read the short review here. I’ve read the graphic novel and love, but actually prefer Dave Gibbon’s artwork to Alan Moore’s writing, which is at times overwraught and self-serving. I’m curious to see how these moments will be adapted on screen.It looks as the though the novel has been visually preserved. And the casting in general appears solid. Line delivery, however, is something no one can be sure of until the film is released. According to Wells, it was, for the most part, pretty lifeless and uninvolving, citing that only Billy Crudup’s and Jackie Earle Haley’s performances as “registering at all.”

My biggest problem with anything I’ve seen from the film is the apparent over-use of slow motion, which Zach Snyder was guilty of doing in 300 as well.

What do you think? Are you excited for Watchmen? Do you think it will be a “staggering failure”?