Steph Dunn- In Class #4 Watchmen

Like many of the movies we watch in class I was sceptical of Watchmen. I had heard it was a cult classic among those who like superhero's, and I am not quite into that. I was very surprised at how interesting this movie actually was. It takes place in an alternate timeline and follows a vigilante group called the Watchmen. They formed themselves off of the previous group from the 30's and 40's called the Minutemen. They were said to have a hand in many big events in the world such as JFK's assassination and the Vietnam world, they were subsequently banned from America. It was so interesting to me to see the problems that these superhero's had. Comparing this film to batman or spiderman the only problems that they seemed to have was with a girl. A very crazy twist that I didn't see coming was when Ozymandias, a member of the Watchmen decided that he was going to play God and recreate the world. He wants to end the feud that is going on between the Soviet Union and the United States. This is different from many of the super hero movies we see today also because they are willing to kill millions of people just to unite the world. I feel as though this movie is supposed to portray the superhero's as God figures but doesn't exactly capture it in the right way. Our God is good and has our best intentions in mind. This movie portrays God as a selfish overpowering being that doesn't care about his people, which he is not.