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The average person can spend thousands of hours watching television and movies throughout their lifetime. We talk about movies with our friends, on the internet, and when getting to know someone for the first time. Movie critics make a living out of having an opinion on the movies they watch and we trust them (or rather, some of us do) to tell us whether or not a movie is worth paying ten dollars to go see in the theater during opening week. With how involved movies are in our relationships and daily lives, its no wonder that being a movie character for Halloween would be a great way to impress friends. A few things to consider before choosing which movie to be a character from; do your friends watch the same kind of films as you, and would they recognize this character if he/she did not have a recognizable outfit? There’s really no fun in being a movie character that dresses like any old joe off the street, because what that really says is that you didn’t want to bother with a Halloween costume that year, and pulled some clothes out of your closet. (If you feel that you have to go this route, at least where a “hello my name is…” nametag) But the most fun comes from picking a recognizable character and acting a little like them while at the party.

One costume I would love to see is Nosferatu from the silent film by the same name. I don’t care that that film was made in in the 1920s, that creature is terrifying, moreso than a lot of current movie monsters that rely on gore to do the scaring.

Of course there are plenty of superhero movies out there and plenty of superheroes to be. You don’t even have to worry about making the costumes, as most of these are available to purchase.

Who watches the watchmen?

The Watchmen is a comic book series created in the nineteen eighties that was recently adapted into a fantastic motion picture. It takes place during an alternate earth time line in which the existence of superheroes is a very real thing. The first batch of heroes saw that villains were beginning to rob, steal, and overrun the cities anonymously by wearing disguises to hide their identities, so they thought ’why not do the same’. They donned costumes and began fighting back as vigilantes. Eventually they grew unpopular with citizens and police because like they people they were fighting, they seemed to operate outside the law under the cover of anonymity. A law was passed that outlawed what they did, and the ones that hadn’t been killed, or taken away to the funny farm retired and carried on normal lives. The majority of the storyline does not focus on them however, it focuses on the second generation of costumed heroes that come after them.

The Watchmen

Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt), Doctor Manhattan (Dr. Jon Osterman), Rorschach (Walter Kovacs), The Comedian (Edward Morgan Blake), The Nite Owl II (Daniel Dreiberg), and The Silk Spectre II (Laurie Juspeczyk) make up this second generation, and did fight crime in the footsteps of the first before the law was passed. After the violent death of one of the members and the subsequent tireless investigation of that death by another, they are all thrown back into the roles they played years ago as vigilantes. Though some have different thoughts on the subject than they did back then. Their lives are sent into chaos as the threat of nuclear war looms close and the end of the world become a very real threat. People they once trusted can be trusted no longer, and situations have changed.

Though Doctor Manhattan is they only true superhero (having been caught in a an “Intrinsic Field subtractor”, disintegrated and reassembled through his own force of will) all of the characters are heroes for a reason, and kick some serious a**. What I think is most interesting about The Watchmen though, is that the characters are no different from you or I. None are entirely good, none are entirely bad, none are fully sane, none are fully insane, and they do only what they can, based on what they believe is best.

May we reconvene under the blood red moon,
-Black Widow