*spoilers below the fold*
"God help us all."
After viewing the film last week, and experiencing a rush of conflicting visions and portents, I came to the conclusion that I needed to Drink from The Well once again… to re-experience the Moment of Faith under a more analytical eye, before I could… with conviction… proselytize.
Thus, dear readers… my conclusion: The Watchmen is a damn good, if not brilliant, adaptation of the second finest Graphic Novel ever writ and sketched (the first being, IMHO…Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. Deal with it.) and it is a very good movie on it’s own strengths. It is not, however… the best “Superhero genre” movie ever made… and I don’t even consider it in the top 5. (In case you are wondering: The Dark Knight, Spiderman 2, X-men 2, Spiderman 1 and Batman Begins)