Who is excited for "The Watchmen" to come out this Friday? I am.

When I first saw the preview this Summer before watching The Dark Knight, I almost was disappointed that it wasn't the movie I was about to watch. Even though I had not yet read the graphic novel. This weekend, I bought the novel, and I finished reading it today. ...wow. Just for a brief explanation: the novel is about a world in which costumed heros actually existed, and what they might be like.

There have been few forms of media that have gripped me like that over the past few years, from the opening page, reading Rorschach's first journal entry. An amazing read; complicated, deep characters, little tidbits of information in the form of clippings from "news articles" and "autobiographies" and the like at the end of every chapter, gray areas in morality and motive, ambiguous outcomes... I highly recommend you read the graphic novel before seeing the movie, if you have the chance.

That said, watching the trailers, it looks like some things are changed (or I'm just not sure which part of the novel they're interpreting). Still, looks really awesome. I will not read any reviews for this movie until I've seen it. I almost did by looking at the front page of Rotten Tomatoes today and seeing its Tomato Meter, but then I left again. I highly recommend the same; read the novel, then see the movie. Unless they highly deviate from the Alan Moore's story, I promise it will be awesome. ...if you're in to that sort of thing. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom