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# watchmen was overblown, self indulgent toss
Snyder has a habit of making 2 hour long Pop Videos
/recently suffered 'Sucker Punch'
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:12, archived)
# The transition from page to screen will never be equalled.
It's a moving comic, and a pretty exact replica of its original visual source.
The film itself comes apart by being far too slavish in its devotion, and is guilty of some of the clunkiest musical inserts, ever.
The fact it ever got made at all, and that it came out with an 18 rating, is a feat that nobody before Zack Snyder was able to achieve.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:27, archived)
# It is utterly fantastic
as long as you switch off before the FUCKING STUPID CHANGE at the end

I don't get it, they spent a fucking fortune on the film and made even more back, why the fuckety fucking fuck did they change it

fucking idiots
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:30, archived)
# Needed more giant space squid.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:35, archived)
# Perhaps...
...because a giant psychic squid was a bit off the mainstream (And lets be honest, the novel is fecking brilliant until the last 2 chapters when it suddenly goes a bit batshit mental (with the giant psychic squid))

Although I do think they somewhat missed the point by changing it.
(El Burro, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:35, archived)
# Any less mainstream that a 50ft blue man with a 7ft penis?
The whole aspect of the space squid storyline was to highlight the fact that, (because it was so outrageous a plan), nobody would ever suspect it was anything less than a genuine attack by a monster from another dimension.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:45, archived)
# Just another day in Camden...
;-)
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:58, archived)
# Ha-ha!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:05, archived)
# No it wasn't.
The whole point was that the entire story is a deconstruction of comic books themselves. It starts with the up-to-date (for the time) angsty story-telling, goes back through detective investigation, invincible super-powers, nuclear paranoia, and ends up with early Lovecraftian horror illustrations. The film ending makes a lot more sense, and actually gave you something to watch if you knew the book.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:41, archived)
# Yes...
...but its still fairly retarded. And I suspect that the general populace would have less trouble with a giant blue man who can control physics than a giant psychic squid.

But I do agree about the attack needing to be like it was in the novel - it changes Manhattan's departure from being voluntary to being exiled, thereby changing a positive ending into a negative one, which is something of a shame.
(El Burro, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:58, archived)
# I think we should settle this
by asking happytoast to draw a giant psychic squid battling a 50ft blue man with a 7ft penis. Only solution.
(El Burro, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:01, archived)
# Zack Snyder buttfucking Alan Moore would be more apt
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:10, archived)
# True Enough
I saw Alan Moore at a science / standup gig. He was quite odd...
(El Burro, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 15:18, archived)
# I don't speak as a previous reader of the Comic,
I hadn't read it before watching the movie.
It was just so... Dull. A whole lotta 'style' over substance.
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:33, archived)
# You can probably pick up the graphic novel for £10-15 on eBay.
Don't let the film put you off - it's on Time's '100 Greatest Novels of All Time' list for good reason.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:20, archived)
# I have read it since, I should add
it was a more rounded story, and enjoyable enough hokum
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:22, archived)
# Ever tried 'The Sandman'?
Another worthy addition to anyone's bookshelves.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:29, archived)
# it's on the bookshelf, funnily enough
yet to be read though :)
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:35, archived)