Who’s Watched The Watchmen?

Watchmen finally debuted in theaters across the country (and maybe the world?) last night at midnight, but due to some unforeseen circumstances The Blot won’t be able to see it until Sunday at the earliest. So, who out there has seen it and what did you think!?! Whether you’re seeing it tonight, tomorrow or whenever, come back afterwards to The Blot Says… and leave a comment to this post with your review of the movie!


Reviews of Watchmen are so mixed I have no idea what to expect. It’s weird, many of the websites I follow on a daily basis have all given it good to glowing reviews, but the more traditional news outlets seem to be grading it much lower. I think Time’s Richard Corliss has the best explanation for this. He reasons that “maybe Watchmen is one of those cult films that doesn't expand beyond the true believers. It probably won't make even alternative movie history.” (link)

I don’t know if that last part is a fair critique or not, but I’m really interested in finding out what people who were not already fans of the Watchmen graphic novel think of the movie. I guess we’ll get a better idea of the movie’s appeal to the country’s movie going public when its opening weekend numbers are finally tallied.

Watchmen opens in theaters today, Friday, March 06, 2009.

AMC's Breaking Bad Returns Sunday

Did anyone else watch Season 1 of AMC’s Breaking Bad? It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea and honestly, it can be difficult to watch at certain points. Aly watched the first two episodes and gave it up. Shows this dark aren’t entertainment for her, but The Blot couldn’t turn away. I think the most difficult part was seeing Malcolm in the Middle’s Bryan Cranston in a whole new light. But once I was able to do that, Breaking Bad’s dark comedy became addictive!

The End Justifies The Extreme

Cranston won the 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and it was definitely well deserved. He plays Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico and was recently diagnosed with Stage III cancer. With a prognosis of only two years left to live, he begins to panic about the thought of dying and leaving his family penniless. So Walt devises a plan to set his family up financially for life, he uses his knowledge as a chemistry teacher to start making and dealing Meth.


Breaking Bad “explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.” (link) Needless to say, Breaking Bad Season 2 is sure to even more intense and shocking as the show begins to explore Walt and his partner Jesse Pinkman’s (Big Love’s Aaron Paul) newly created drug empire that was established at the end of Season 1.

Breaking Bad Season 2 premieres on AMC Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 10/9c. After that, you can catch all new episodes of Breaking Bad every Sunday on AMC on 10/9c.