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"Watchmen" raises box office hopes

The upcoming movie Watchmen is looking to be one of the top grossing films of the year. With the directing skills of Zack Snyder, it’s hard to believe that Watchmen can bring anything other than enormous crowds to theaters across the nation. It’s been predicted that Snyder, who previously directed the violent adventure flick 300, will use his skill for turning graphic novels into visual masterpieces to create a spectacular experience for moviegoers.

The film has a cast of flashy characters, from Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), a glowing blue nuclear experiment who crowds the screen with his cosmic powers, to Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), a paranoid masked vigilante whose mysterious past leads to his crime fighting ways. The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is an angry cigar-chomping brute of a character who is at the center of many bone-crunching fight scenes.

The Night Owl (Stephen McHattie), cruises about in a hovercraft resembling his owl-themed costume, rescuing helpless residents of a burning apartment complex. Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino), the only female hero in the novel, is a graceful, yet courageous enigma on screen. Finally, Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), uses his powerful mind to destroy evil.

Surprisingly, a week before the movie’s release, it has received many mixed opinions from the top critics in the entertainment industry. What once seemed like the best new superhero movie of our time has been reviewed as nothing more than a linear, one-sided, overly stuffed action movie.

Critic J. Hoberman of the Village Voice says that Snyder’s emphasis on making the action scenes unique and other worldly draws away from the underlying themes. He states that the movie’s narrative and concepts are far too simple. Instead of bringing together the concepts that made the novel so spectacular, Snyder just made the movie into a fist-pounding adrenaline rush with literal dialogue and a weak storyline.

There is only one question that remains for the millions lined up to see Watchmen when it opens this Friday. Will it live up to its expectations? Or will it be the flop that many critics have predicted? March 6 will be judgment day.

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