Watchmen.. to see or not to see... now there is the rub

...oh what to do? Should I go and see Watchmen or not? I am sure that it will be a travesty of one of my favorite books. The movie will be Watchmen lite or Watchmen distilled down to it's simplest core for all the stupid people in the world. Books rarely make good movies especially ones as complex as Moore's Watchmen. I know that if looks fantastic with pulls straight from Gibbon's art but looks are not everything. Frak! I am sure the lovely wife wants to go. She has been trying to get through the book.

There is a whole list of movies that I take great pride in not seeing and for having valid reasons for not seeing them. Topgun, Scarface, ..... If I think a movie is going to suck or I think it is going to frak up the source material then don't I have a ethical obligation to skip it (check other post for my concept on source materials). Will Watchman join those movies that I have gladly skipped? Will it join those movies that I saw and hated (or at least dislike) although everyone else seemed to like them? Will it join those movies that I saw and thought were okay but nothing else (Forrest Gump anyone?)? or will I be spitting venom because I saw it and just F@@@ing hated it.

I was all ready to go see Watchmen the movie until I saw the preview where the director says "It is realley a simple story". What? Did he read the book or just look at the pretty pictures.

Hollywood's motto "Distill everything to it's easiest and simplest point"! McBeth is just a story of manic depression. Patton is just a story about mania. Ugh......... Does everything has to be a reduction of intellect?