{"id":2236,"date":"2009-03-07T13:26:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2009-03-07T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:26:25","slug":"critic_at_large_44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Critic At Large: Watchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in an alternate 1985 where Richard Nixon is still president, the United States emerged victorious in Vietnam, and &#8220;costumed adventurers&#8221; are part of the fabric of everyday society, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0409459\/\"><i>Watchmen<\/i><\/a> examines the lives of several deeply flawed characters who have hung up their Spandex after a federal law banning masked vigilantes forced them to retire. The movie is largely faithful to the comic book, with the exception of a significantly altered ending. <\/p>\n<p>The movie gets a lot of things right. The ambiance of a slightly warped 80s America, Jackie Earle Haley as the sociopath Rorschach, the omnipotent Dr. Manhattan&#8217;s skewed sense of time. But some of a acting felt stilted, although that might be a function of the source material. Comic book dialogue can have a certain exaggerated style that can sound a little silly when spoken aloud. And I&#8217;m still waiting for the day when we get a comic book movie with a strong female lead, a female lead who can do more than kick a little ass and give one of the male leads a good lay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in an alternate 1985 where Richard Nixon is still president, the United States emerged victorious in Vietnam, and &#8220;costumed adventurers&#8221; are part of the fabric of everyday society, Watchmen examines the lives of several deeply flawed characters who have hung up their Spandex after a federal law banning masked vigilantes forced them to retire. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2236' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-A4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}