Okay, so I just watched “The Watchmen” in IMAX.  Good movie, but missed the great mark by a few choices by the actors, the director, and the music supervisor.

Yes, the Music Supervisor.  Someone needs to tell this guy that just because you can afford “All Along the Watchtower” and it has the word “watch” in it, that it doesn’t necessarily belong in this movie.  Music is a powerful thing in a film – it can support and tweak the meaning of a scene or a film as a whole, and when used poorly, it becomes a clanging gong proclaiming to all the viewers that “This is a movie!  You’re watching a movie that some guys in Hollywood made. . .don’t suspend disbelief!!!”

And it wasn’t just that one song. . .Ride of the Valkyries was misused as well. . .the Sound of Silence was pretty cliche and Hallelujah, while getting credit for using the Leonard Cohen original rather than the Buckley version, was just odd. . .

I might write more about other misses, but this one just got under my skin. . .

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