watchmen

i know this movie gets a lot of hate from people, but i really liked it.  i had read the comic book many years ago and was very excited about it being turned into a movie. i saw it in the theater when it first came out and enjoyed it.  when it came out on dvd with this ultimate cut i was really looking forward to it, this special edition comes with the full comic book transformed in to a 'motion comic', which means that the panels from the book are given a little bit of movement as a narrator reads out the whole story.  its kind of weird at first to watch because the male narrator also does the women voices, but the strangeness of that soon fades and you get drawn in to the story very quickly.  i watched the motion comic and then went back to watch the full ultimate cut which includes a lot of scenes not in the theatrical cut as well as the pirate story from the comic.  the whole thing is pretty impressive for its scope and dedication to the source material.  i understand the concern that many people have with it being a little too slavish to the original and yes, it does leave the whole thing a bit lifeless and hollow, but its still a cool live action version of one of the best comic books ever written.