Waiting To Watch The Watchmen

Hollywood has recognized what comic enthusiasts has long realized – superhero films are a big business. Success of films such as the X-Men trilogy, the Spider-Man trilogy, the Batman films, and sleeper hits such as Iron Man and Sky High prove this fact. The pursuit for comic book assets has intensed.


2009 is no exclusion, and the year’s biggest film may wonderfully be based on the widely commended comic book maxi-series of all time.


Allan Moore’s Watchmen is the title that is often mentioned as a reply to the question “what is the best comic book in record?” Watchmen is a work of art in storytelling, breaking new bases in the avenue with techniques that were radical in those period.


Watchmen exposes a period when superheroes have been banned and super troops have disbanded. One such group, the Watchmen, were mandated to come together when one of their former associates was slained, with all clues referring to another member of the team as the offender.


What follows next is an exposition nothing like any other – the ethical conundrums of being a supernatural being, the fair contemplation of methods and outcomes, the price of supreme intelligence, the dangers of an all-commanding government, the misfortunes of being a superhero, the triumph and pretense of being normal, a research on the callings of the flesh, and so much more.


Many studios and many producers have attempted to bring Watchmen to the silver screen n the past, but only with the coming to life of one Zack Snyder has there been overflowing belief for a realistic adaptation of the effort to another medium. Zack Snyder, certainly, is the same visionary director who provided us an almost-seamless film interpretation of comic book classic, 300, by Frank Miller.


Early still takes and teaser clips of the movie has guaranteed the typically fanatical comic fandom that the beloved franchise is in good hands. The group of actors is perfect, and Dr. Manhattan, the heavenly personality in the series, is perfectly portrayed by computer generated illustrations.


Watchmen is prepared to carry on the trend of superhero films raking in the big bucks.


Although, Watchmen is no ordinary superhero film. It is an oeuvre camouflaged as a comic book. It is a study of civilization, politics and philosophy using spandex-wearing personas as characters. And it will be one of the best films of the century despite its appearingly glitzy setup.


By Reuben Davis.