Watchmen Review

FYI: contains some spoilers, for anyone not familiar with the plot! So, as I mentioned, I saw Watchmen yesterday afternoon and it definitely left me feeling disturbed. The drive-in would have been the ideal venue to view the film, with the great outdoors providing distraction to all the violence. I was prepared for a certain amount of gore, but it was the extreme, repeated harm women suffered that was too over the top for me. Beatings, rape, child murder and a pregnant lady shot in the head were just a few of the "stand-out" moments during the nearly 3 hour flick. As promised, Dr. Manhattan does wander around nude in most of his scenes and it felt that seeing a penis on the big screen caused a lot more discomfort for most viewers than all the pain the female characters endured. Not that I conducted a poll or anything, I just used my super-feminine powers of gut instinct to feel the vibe in the theater. It brings me, once again, to Kirby Dick's incredible documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated. One of Kirby's main points is the ratings board, and thusly the public, are a lot more comfortable seeing women beaten than they are seeing a female orgasm. One is called Watchmen and the other is called porn. I'm not for censorship, but I'm just saying...