I just saw this on Sunday and I want to talk about it so I don't forget anything, so for those of you that haven't seen it yet there are probably gonna be spoilers. First off I didn't think it was as great as it was made out to be. I read about it so much (Wikipedia) and watched a lot of stuff on TV about it (G4 special) and it was hyped up to be suck a kick ass movie. I was expecting to come out the theater feeling the same way I did when I saw Lord of the Rings (like I was going to go home and eat cold beans and kill dogs or something). Don't get me wrong, it was a really good movie, but there was just too much coverage of it. I sort of felt neutral after I saw it. I don't know, maybe I should give it another day or so to sink in. I think what mostly made me feel underwhelmed was that they put so much work into recreating sets straight out of the book, and they put an amazing amount of detail into everything (most of it wasn't even seen in the movie), but in the end you really didn't notice it. I also thought some of the CGI was terrible, particularly Bubastis. She looked absolutely horrible and unrealistic. The only other CGI part I didn't like was the beginning where the smiley button is being swallowed up by the pool of blood, but that isn't really a big deal. Everything big like Dr. Manhattan and the Owl ship looked good so no complaints there. I thought the actors did a really good job for the most part. Jackie Earl Haley did a great job as Rorschach. When I first saw he was going to be playing the part I thought he didn't have the right look, but they really made him look great and he was great and it was all great. The guy who did Nite Owl II was also good and I thought he really got the character down. Silk Spectre was okay, she didn't blow me away or anything but I imagined her about the same in the book. All the parts with the Comedian were awesome. Dr. Manhattan was good too, he was pretty interesting in the book but he sort of annoyed me in the movie. His voice didn't seem right to me, I was expecting more of an echoy godlike voice. However, I thought the parts showing his past as Osterman were done superbly. I think they character they improved the most on was Adrian/Ozymadias. In the book he was my least favorite, but he was really improved upon in the movie. He was made into a more villainous character and I think the book/movie really needed someone like that. His costume was darker and the tone surrounding his character was sort of dark which really added to his whole persona. Steering away from the characters for a moment I'd like to say that I think it would be very difficult to see this movie without having some sort of background with the book. You could probably get the basic story down, but there are so many things thrown in for the fans that a casual viewer just wouldn't notice. I've heard from a few people who hadn't read the book that they got what was going on so maybe I'm completely wrong there. I just think that you can appreciate the movie more if you've read the book, and that if I hadn't read the book, I wouldn't have liked the movie as much. It's not really important but the scene right before New York gets blown up that shows the kid reading Tales of the Black Freighter with the news vendor would have gone over most people's heads, but to me it was pretty cool to see them in there.

Sheesh, that's not even the tip of the iceberg. There's so much more I can say that I just can't think of, but I'm gonna have to stop. Sorry if there are any typos (which I'm sure there are).

TL;DR I like the movie, thought it was as good as it could be but it just didn't blow me away like I thought it would. The characters were faithful to their comic book counter parts and everything was awesome, but I just see the move as an addition to go along with the comic book.