Short Attention Span Review: "Watchmen"

Overall, this was a good movie. Like the graphic novel, it's got some points where it gets dragged down by too much of the talky-talky, but the visuals were great. The movie's not without other faults, though. Some of the actors weren't up to their tasks (Silk Specter and Ozymandius, I'm looking at you) and the gore and violence were so over the top that the fight scenes lost a lot of their visceral potential. (In Dark Knight, you don't actually SEE the pencil go into the guy's eye - the suggestion that it just happened is plenty to make an audience squirm.) Anyway, worth watching on the big screen, but be sure to take plenty of snacks.