"Hallelujah"...as a soundtrack choice, it must be earned

Brandon Kim at IFC.com makes an excellent point about this overused Leonard Cohen classic...Watchmen, we're looking at you.


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"The latest "Hallelujah" shame (and mockery of that once magical evening) is the excruciating moment in which Cohen's original version of the song scores a sex scene in Zack Snyder's recent "Watchmen," which plays out like a bad joke told by a sad clown. Worse, you have to sit there while the sad clown painfully explains the punch line to you when you don't laugh. I also have to mention the completely unearned "The Sounds of Silence" travesty -- Snyder, man, you have to earn Simon & Garfunkel."



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Emmi

Sadly I agree - interesting characters have been sacrificed for military-style action and latex clown suits.

Ex Ferens
Actually, I liked the movie. I thought it was ridiculously close to the book, Keep in mind that even 10 years ago getting some thing this faithful to the source material would have been completely impossible. I mean, think of the 1st Captain America movie. He had to fight for 3 glowing penises to appear repeatedly on the screen, and they let it in.

Still, there were parts that...hmmm..let's say didn't fit. The fight scenes were too superheroy. Part of the point of the whoel story is that these are real people in costumes, NOT superheroes, and the fight scenes should have reflected that.

I read an interviewwith Zack Snyder, saying that the sex scene in the Owl ship was intentionally absurd. That explains alot, but I still don't see how he thought an intentionally absurd scene would work there.
Emmi

Well yes I shouldn't judge the movie, haven't seen it. Just reminded me of how Men in Black ruined so many good movies by setting a standard of silly self-important high-tech effects and military uniforms that have nothing to do with plot and everything to do with "look at what I can do" nonsense. But Watchmen...the trailer looked quite interesting.

I can't think of many graphic novel-based movies I like, wish they could have done something with Sandman or Shade. I like Lexx because the actors don't take themselves too seriously and it makes the characters much more believeable. As an example I liked the movie Saw, it was creative and the effects actually related to the plot and not much overacting or melodramatic scenes.

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