Rate the Actors: Who Did You Enjoy Watching the Most?

[BrollySupersj]

Wilson and Haley were my top two favorites, but...if I had to pick JUST ONE......I'd say Wilson. The way he screamed when Manhattan vaporized you know who, just really got to me.

 

[Doc Samson]

Hands down Dr. Manhattan for me. I think it was brilliant, considering the CGI & also the withdrawn nature of the character, I feel Crudup really shined through all of that. Speaking of the CGI, big props to that as well, the little nuances in his facial expressions were fantastic.

On a side note however, I think the most gratifying performance was Malin because after all the critic bashing, I was pleasantly surprised once I saw it for myself. I also think her scene on Mars was one of the strongest in the whole movie. In the book I found Silk Spectre to be a irritating, grating, complaining, whiny, needy little brat, but in the film, Malin didn't come off nearly as harsh or b*tchy. I also think Carla was good, I don't know what you guys disliked so much, I thought her little speech about how she sees the past & the future was really sweet, you could see the pain & longing in her eyes. She was good at the end as well and besides all that, she's just damn beautiful

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The Comedian was soooo good. It's like he stepped right from the page, and excuse me for saying this, it will sound stupid, but the fact that he used the f-word many times fitted the character perfectly.

Rorschach jumped from the page aswell. Jackie Earle Haley is one of the ugliest dudes I've seen on film (which in this case, is just perfect), especially in his prison scenes and Rorschach's final scene. The voice was awesome. The movements were awesome. It was just brilliant.

Dr Manhattan. So good. Can't find the words anymore.

Don't get me wrong, Veidt and Dreiberg were excellent aswell, I just enjoyed the three I mentioned the most.

 

[shigsy2003]

Good God...

I can't choose one. I loved Wilson, Morgan, Haley and Goode equally. They were brilliant. I know Goode got a lot of critiscism but I thought he was great. Morgan was perfectly unstable as the Comedian, Wilson portrayed Dan as a sensitive very likeable character who could reaslistically turn bad ass when needed and Haley really shone when he was in prison.

 

[Bubastis]

Malin Akerman created a swirling vortex of heart-breaking epic failure. Nothing personal to the girl but she cannot act. Acting classes prior to shooting might have done something. She tries, god love her, but she can't act at all.

Jackie Earle Haley was the film's saving grace. He brings the materiel to life and inhabits the character in a way nobody else really dared to. He made Rorschach a tragic psychopath while still having fun with it.
Billy Crudup brings the right amounts of apathy, removal, and emotion and creates something really impressive. He actually makes you forget that Manhattan is CG.
Patrick Wilson has a very admirable understanding of the fact that Dan is the audience's link to the story, and in an odd way is the heart of Watchmen. He doesn't really hold back in his endeavors to make Dan pathetic, sad, charming, depressed yet hopeful, and even almost-heroic when he tries.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan nails the comedian. Blake ended up being more of a supporting role than I'd expected, but he does it well. He mixes sexual, evil, violent, abusive, sociopathic, truthful, and tragic very well. He kinda reminded me of Jayne from Firefly from time to time, which I quite liked. He didn't do anything oscar-calliber but he did a damn good job. The scene where he cries in front of Moloch comes to mind. I think my favorite thing about him was his voice. ("MEDIC!!")
Ahh, Matthew Goode. The single biggest love-him-or-hate-him actor in the whole thing. He actually put a lot of effort and imagination into Ozymandias, which I completelty appreciated. I think the only reason he catches any **** is because he plays Ozy as id he had as many lines as he did in the comic book, which he doesn't. it's a fantastic performance, it's just not a full one, one that has all its oppurtunities delivered upon.
Matt Frewer is onscreen for about 12 seconds, but he still gives a performance, making Moloch the right blend of tragic, real, and satisfyingly weird.
Carla Gugino is just fine in her scenes as the younger Sally, but is uncomfortably bad in her scenes as an older Sally.
The guy that played Nixon was a cartoon. On a less related note, I wanted to see if his prosthetic nose would "SPROING" back into place if i pulled it back.

 

[bunk]

I went with Wilson but it's a pretty tough choice. Everyone was effective in their roles, some were stellar.

 

[kedrell]

Those that did well:

1.Jackie Earle Haley
2.Jeffrey Dean Morgan
3.Billy Crudup
4.Patrick Wilson

Those that were ok

5.Matthew Goode
6.Carla Gugino
7.Whoever that guy was who played Hollis Mason

Those that were bad:

7.Malin Akerman(but at least she's real hot and can convincingly kick @ss!)
8.The guy who played Nixon
9.The guy who Rorschach killed with a clever.

 

[Voorhees]

I enjoyed watching Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl, and the Comedian the most.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I honestly can say I thought they were all great, every actor in this movie played a part in its amazingness for me, but the ones that really stick out are Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach, a performance that rivals Ledger's Joker for me. I also thought Billy Crudup and Jeffrey Dean Morgan were amazing. Crudup almost had me in tears a few times in the movie, the most prominent being when he described Laurie as a miracle on Mars "Will you smile if I admit I was wrong?" Amazing stuff.

And JDM brought a sympathy and coolness to the Comedian that for me personally was absent in the book, another amazing performance. Again all of them were awesome, but those 3 just really stood out for me.

 

[BestGirl]

Oddly, I think I liked Crudup most. I found DM really fascinating, which is strange since he didn't register with me much in the GN. Maybe it's because DM was always doing these larger-than-life things, like teleporting people and creating building on Mars. Every other character's problems felt insignificant after a DM scene, which was probably the point. He also spoke in a soft, gentle monotone that seemed really hypnotic to me.

 

[laudanum09]

I'm glad Pat Wilson's faring well in the poll. He was definitely my second favorite character to watch. Some may have found him boring (obviously not the people who voted in this poll??) but I gotta say, he really hit Dan on the head.

As much as I thought Cruddup and that amazing voice he did was absolutely perfect as Manhattan, breathing a life into him both fitting and far different then how I always imagined Manhattan being played, Nite Owl and his earthly issues, the fetishism, the impotency hit on the more 'pathetic' aspects of human nature, the weak spots, the obsessions and the lacking we all have to some extent.

For me the most subtly rendered expression of Dan's frailty and 'humanity' came when SSII has the Nite Owl goggles on and says something about how 'this must be how jon sees things' and Dan's big grin dips ever so slightly. Great stuff.

 

[Tighelander]

Patrick Wilson as NiteOwl kept making me think of the "Brad" character from the movie "Shock Treatment".

I always thought Doc's voice was more authoritative, something close to the voice at the beginning of "The Outer Limits", not so harsh though. The voice in the movie was too wimpy for someone that has no doubts.

 

[Raiden]

I found out that Patrick Wilson played Raoul from The Phantom of the Opera. He can sing quite well, like a Broadway actor could.

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With Emmy Rossum in POTO.