who watches the watchmen?

I do! More specifically, I watched it at the midnight showing at the Lumina tonight, since Chapel Hill Comics was having an event there. I'm tired, so I'll jsut note a few general impressions and minor gripes:

--Minor gripe: The movie kept calling the group of heroes "The Watchmen", whcih they were never really called in the book--the book's title is metaphorical. Or am I misremembering? (A friend has my copy.)

--Minor gripe: The soundtrack was AWFUL. Erin said it sound like they compiled it a week ago. Like a cemetery scene has "Sound of Silence" playing. And an 80s scene has "99 Luftballoons". Most egregious was Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"--a very unsexy song--playing over a VERY VERY graphic sex scene. Yikes. On several levels.

--The movie was a lot gorier than I like--I hid my eyes a lot but the sounds were just as yucky.

--I liked it well enough. The consensus at the end seemed to be "It was good" with a shrug. Does that average out to a B? No idea if people who haven't read it will enjoy it--I think it was fairly coherent, especially compared to the source, but of course I was filling in all the holes as it went along. I should note that I'm not a die-hard fan of the book--I get why it was so ground-breaking, but I'm not bummed about changes the movie made or things it left out. If you're interested in spoiler-ridden comparisons, here's a handy guide.