On Watching the Watchmen

So the eagerly awaited March 6th debut of the "most celebrated graphic novels of all time" has come and past, and I was there this past weekend to hopefully enjoy a remarkable story that wasn't destroyed by Hollywood and their (frequently) money grubbing whores.
I do have to say I was mostly pleased with the product as a whole though I have a gripe or two. As I said for the most part the movie was very well done, fluid and well coreographed action sequences, which as in the original telling did not leave very much to the imagination, save for Rorschach's trip to the bathroom on an escape from prison. The story stayed almost perfectly true to form, with a few embellishments here and there but nothing too bad, unless you're a Watchmen fanboy you would hardly notice and or care. Though if you are not a fan of the story you will most likely come out HATING this movie. You'll most likely find it over-violent, with an annoying if not obnoxious at times score and mediocre acting.
That being said the summary of the story is (for those of you who don't know at this point) an alternate history 1985 Nixon is on his 3rd term in office, and the Cold War is even dealier and more serious then it had ever been. The US is busy fighting in Afghanistan, while being threatened each day by the growing nuclear threat of Russia. The Watchmen are a group of former costumed superheroes now being forced to "retire" (night owl/Miss Jupiter) or operate underground (Rorshach). What bring our story into view is a former member of the Watchmen is assaulted in his apartment (in an awesome opening fight sequence) and subsequently tossed out the window, where he then falls about 30+ stories to his death. It goes from there with the ultra violent almost anti-hero Roshach delving into what seems to be an assasin taking out 'masks' which turns out to be much much more.
Now as for me I like the story, its very dark, gritty, not a whole lot of happy Superman boy-scout nonsense to be found in these parts type of story. To me it gives it a true sense of realism, less of a glamorisation of the superhero, and more of a better look at what human nature is really like. My biggest problem with this movie, and I don't know how many times I have said it durin and now even after, was the poor if not horrible at times choice of music. To me the musical chocies weren't exactly horrid, they were cliche and out of place. They instead of helping the mood and subtely accentuating the point of the scene, go out of their way to bludgen you over the head with a "THIS IS SAD SCENE SAD MUSIC PLAY NOW!" type of feel. It begins to get a bit obnoxious after a little bit. For example a funeral scene with the "Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel, if by definition the most cliche placement ever. Followed by a very awkwardly matched up love scene to Lenoard Choen's "Hallelujah," it just doesn't work right and just smashes the tone which needen't be said in your face. There is even a sequence near the end where "All Along the Watchtower" is being played as if it was trying to be 'this is the watchmen' theme song.' It failed.
Other than the my distaste to the music there wasn't a whole lot bad with this movie. It wasn't the greatest movie out there but it also didn't takea Hugo award winner and make it a pile of shit either. So in the end if you want to see a pretty solid superhero movie Watchmen is for you. Just try and spot the fanboys and steer away from them because their smells and babbling about how something is missing from the movie will annoy the shit out of you.

Watchmen gets a small soda and med popcorn from me (also eqiv. to 3.5/5) cuz thats what I had while watching.