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Ozymandias:
The movie achieved more than I could've hoped for, to be honest.

I feel like it was more than an adaptation of the book. Snyder used the medium he had to supplant the medium he lost in really excellent ways.

It wasn't flawless. The acting was pretty bad in parts. The soundtrack sometimes intrusive.

But...

It was good? If it could be done better, I don't know who would possibly manage.

KvP:
The AV Club has a relatively extensive comparison of the film to the book and makes some pretty unassailable points about how Snyder changed the characters in rather important ways (namely, making them superhuman and adding to them an ecstatic enjoyment of violence almost completely missing in the comic)

Lines:
I am seeing this tonight and I am excited. I only just got the book last week, so it's still fresh. This could be either a good or bad thing (I have problems with books to movies as of late), so I will give opinions on it later.

ImRonBurgundy?:
Best part of the night: right after Rorschach poured the deep fryer all over the black prisoner who was about to shank him, most of the audience applauded and cheered (I did not, because I am classy and understand that Alan Moore did not intend for Rorschach's actions to be seen as laudable), and then a black guy piped up from the back, "None of ya'll were applaudin' when he beat anyone else up!"

He was wrong, however, because earlier in the movie there was one guy who was really into Rorschach setting the cops on fire.

Aside: Carla Gugino in her old lady makeup just made me think of Amy Sedaris, and Malin Akerman ranks a Cameron Diaz on the tone-deaf line readings scale.

JediBendu:
I'm fairly certain I went into the movie not really predicting how much I would enjoy it too much.

That being said, I thought it was one of the worst comic book movies I've ever seen and I'm fairly certain I won't be watching it again. Everything was right and the story was pretty much all there. But it was just not a good movie. The action and effects were correcly not made to be the most important part of the film, but there was almost zero emotional resonance to fill the void (even for someone who's read the comic multiple times and loves the characters.) I chalk it up to bad casting, terrible acting, and a bad director.

Billy Crudup and Jackie Earle Haley were both good though. They were the only ones.

Honestly by the time Dan and Laurie were having dinner I was already checking the time. It wasn't all that bad, but far too much of it was.

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