We're
not surprised to learn Watchmen took in $55.7 million, falling
short of expectations. After all, it's a graphic novel, not a famous
comic book series people have been reading or hearing about for
decades, such as Spiderman or The X-Men. It has no movie stars (unless
you count an unrecognizable Billy Crudup), a disorienting and
uninvolving trailer, and terrible buzz. It probably doesn't help that
the same douche who directed a dud like 300 helmed this one-- word of
mouth after Friday's opening was abysmal and the movie plummeted in the
charts on Saturday and Sunday.
Even the
film's sex scene has been disparaged. We get the feeling direct Zack
Snyder was trying for laughs here, but this is the same guy that thinks
Gerard Butler is a genius thespian and that wooden, clunky dialogue is
acceptable in any genre. There's also the problem of how this sequence
ends, with the most cliched Freudian moment in cinema...
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