paul_zap and I decided to see Watchmen tonight, since it had just come in with our Netflix shipment, and I'd been hearing good things about it for quite some while. I'm really not sure how this got as much acclaim as it did, because I absolutely loathed it. I have never, ever seen a movie with so much rampant misogyny and accepted violence towards women.

First up. I have not read the books that it is based upon. I actually don't really give a rat's ass if the movie is true to the books or not, because either way, this shit is seriously fucked up. Whether it's the movie makers getting it wrong or the books being that way to begin with, I don't care.

(I am also not paying exact attention to movie timeline here. I'm writing as I remember shit that really bothered me.)

( Behind a cut because some of this may be triggering, as the movie does deal with rape/etc... and not in any fair or reasonable manner. )

There is a lot of misogyny in the comic book industry, but I have not seen anything like this level. This is misogyny on fucking steroids. This movie has been recommended to me as a great "dark" superhero movie. This is not "dark." This is a fucking study of psychopathy. These are fucking irredeemable characters. This is a fucking movie that says thematically that beating, raping, and murdering women is OK if you are technically a "good guy." But aren't they all the "good guys"?

I can say quite seriously I have never seen a movie that has pissed me off this much. And I cannot for the life of me understand why the hell so many of the self-proclaimed feminist women I know have told me that this is a great movie and a must-see.

It is six in the fucking morning, and I cannot sleep because I'm so fucking pissed over this. Argh.