Watchmen: the Hype backlash

Has the movie hype jumped the shark?

First, gripes that clips that were released aren’t made of awesome, that the last viral video sucked and that Doctor Manhattan’s Wandg is not true to the comic Then silly tie-in merchandise where the real items are indistinguishable from the spoof ones. I mean, really:

Anti-movie sentiment is not always as well reasoned as this, but if you block it all out, you might just miss the greatest Watchmen revisionist ending ever made.

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Published:: 24.02.09 / 6pm

Category:: Blather
Tags:: take my name off it and give all my money to the artist

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