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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4714548" data-attributes="member: 20741">Saw it over the weekend. Neither my wife nor I have read The Watchmen.We enjoyed the movie, though neither of us would rate it as the best comic book movie we've seen.  Having read about the "real" ending and watched the "movie" ending, we both agree the movie ending was a better choice and made for a better film.i'm not sure that we needed Richard Nixon to be the boogie man, and I must admit that I objected to that. Reagan would have filled that role just as well.  That's a quibble with the book - not the movie.On a more philosophical note, I'm not so sure that this was a movie that needed to be made. I can think of a few better bets on which to gamble 150 million dollars in film.That said, there have certainly been FAR worse films and FAR worse bets, too. So that's par for the course I guess.I'll get this on Blu-Ray when it comes out as I am sure many others will too. The studios will end up making back their money in the end. This is not a "bomb" of a film. But it's not a hit  - and I don't think it deserves to be one, either. If the great unwashed prefers their comic book stuff more....comic bookey, then I'm not sure that's a great surprise to anyone.Absent Heath Ledger's untimely death, I don't think The Dark Knight makes a Billion at the box office either.  To tell the truth, I prefered Iron Man. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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