So? I guess everyone was underwhelmed by this? Or maybe afraid, like Pinky, of being bullied. (I hope not.)
I'll wade in here, then. The whole project wasn't a very good idea to begin with, but they did a good enough job with it that complaining seems like poor sportsmanship. I pretty much agree with the critical consensus - even though it was a faithful adaptation, it didn't turn into a great movie. I thought the casting was good, and the acting ranged from good enough (Ozzy, Laurie Jupiter) to excellent (Rorschach, Doc Manhattan).
I thought the use of music was pretty horrible, and the action scenes and the general atmosphere were too overblown and bombastic. They missed the point of the book - that there was supposed to be something ordinary about it all, even the violence. As it was, the glamorization of the extreme violence kind of clashed with the overall critique of the fascist streak in superhero stories.
And even though they aped the flashback structure, they didn't manage to grasp that what is really cool about the comic was the way it explored and took advantage of the formal structures specific to comics.
My wife, who hasn't read the original, seemed to like it more than I did. I wonder if this will generally be the case? Ebert loved it, and he hasn't read it.
As usual, I found it kind of thrilling to watch a pretty well done superhero movie. I'll probably wind up watching it again at least once.
