Doctor Manhattan was perhaps the quintessential Snyder muse. Superman- Watchmen provided a gold mine of resonant material. Yes, the unintentionally hilarious Night Owl–Silk Spectre sex scene, set to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” should be doused in gasoline-once again, apologies to Malin Akerman.īut for Snyder, who likes to infuse superhero stories with biblical undertones and expose the problems inherent in treating anyone like a god-like Henry Cavill’s pensive Superman in Man of Steel and Batman v. Yes, some of the performances are terrible-apologies to Malin Akerman.
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(“This awful city, it screams like an abattoir full of retarded children” is doing the Absolute Most, and obviously not in a good way.) Yes, Doctor Manhattan’s blue CGI penis is distracting and has nearly as much screen time as Ozymandias. Yes, the grim musings of the masked sociopathic investigator Rorschach sometimes border on self-parody. Granted, every “ Watchmen is actually very good” take requires some hedging and listing some of the film’s inescapable flaws. Watchmen isn’t quite a masterpiece, but because it brought out the best of his dour sensibilities, it’s easily Snyder’s best film. (And with one of the story’s main characters being a blue, godlike figure who briefly emigrates to Mars, a movie couldn’t exactly be made with chump change.) It is those same qualities, however, that made Snyder the ideal shepherd to finally guide Watchmen to the big screen-a perfect pairing of art and artist that precipitated the bleak (and since recalibrated) foundation of the DC Extended Universe. (A TV-series sequel from Damon Lindelof arrives Sunday on HBO, exploring the Watchmen universe in the present day.) Watchmen was long considered unadaptable it was too sprawling, philosophical, nihilistic, and gruesome to be commercially viable. He had only two feature films to his name-a kinetic Dawn of the Dead remake and the shredded display of Hellenic abs known as 300-when he came out with Watchmen: the highly anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s comic series. The Never-Ending Challenge of Adapting ‘Watchmen’īut back in 2009, Snyder wasn’t yet a polarizing superhero auteur.
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