Watch The Watchmen

Watchmen is to films, as Brazil is to socioeconomic structures.

Favelas, neighborhoods constructed sometimes literally out of trash, exist directly next to rich neighborhoods. I saw huts built out of old billboards, using the backside of a high class shopping mall as one wall.

That kind of proximate juxtaposition of two diametrically opposed concepts, that is what The Watchmen film is. Great moments of poignancy and beauty, frames away from some truly terrible moments. Words fail to explain how jaw-droppingly bad certain points of this film were. I may never enjoy Leonard Cohen again.

And yet portions of it were truly great. But these things served only to remind that this film could have actually been good.

But that's why it is so worth seeing, because it is such an unbelievably bipolar film, that can really teach you a lot about how to, and most importantly how not to, make a good movie.