A spectacular rise of Dr.Manhattan out of Thames. Well, not really.
Yesterday the news emerged on a twitter about Dr.Manhattan to make a ‘one-off spectacle appearance’ later at night over the river of Thames. Naturally, I was intrigued to come and see it. Never read the graphic novel itself, but the movie trailer looked uber-cool, so for the last 6 months I was eagerly waiting for its opening in the cinemas.
So what was promised? At 8pm sharp a giant 72 feet figure of the blue-skinned man to emerge from the dusky water of the river and some unseen footage from the movie to be shown along with some other spectacular effects. Well ok, let’s go and see. We were in a hurry to arrive before 8pm, so were there probably 5 mins before that fateful hour. The figure was already there projected on the wall of water in the middle of the river.
8pm. Nothing happened. The figure still floating motionless over the water. 8.05. The projection changed to that yellow smiley. Ok…. 8.10. Back to Dr.Manhattan. 8.15 Back to the smiley. Huh? Also not sure about the ‘giant-size’, which was well… overestimated. What happened then? The movie trailer, seen hundreds of time was shown. And then? Then we had left, along with a quarter of other rather disappointed viewers (there were not so many of them anyway). And all this was happening with no sound at all, apart from the street musician playing nearby, but he definitely wasn’t ready to play the movie theme… Probably something really amazing was shown after we had left, but it was quite freezing and we gave up on it.
So, even if the pictures look cool (oh, thank you :), the reality was absolutely dull and I would definitely rate it as a failure. An expensive FAIL. (Should we blame the adverse weather and a wrong type of wind? ) Let’s not associate that with the movie though, which hopefully will be great. Well, we’ll see tomorrow night.