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7. WORST: Almost Every Fight Scene in Watchmen
(Watchmen)
HOLD ON, HEAR ME OUT ON THIS ONE. Let me actually explain.
So the fight scenes in Watchmen are slick and pretty and cool looking"¦and that's the problem.
The Watchmen comic is a story that has multiple overlying themes, but one of them is that if superheroes existed in the real world, they wouldn't be cool. They'd be frightening and unhinged, or dorky and awkward. And an across-the-board problem that the Watchmen film has is completely missing that point.
Hell, just look at Nite Owl for that. The tubby loser became a Hollywood hot "awkward" guy. As such, most of the film's fight scenes are flashy and pretty and all full of slow motion. And by making them "better" than the books, they ruined the point. It's a rare case where a solution that would work in a different film (make the fight scenes "cool") was completely mis-applied to a film that didn't need it.
As a result, the film comes off as an overly glossy work that loses the grit and realism – and moreover, the point - of the original.
