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Blue Kitty:
I loved this movie and think they did a really good job.  The different time periods were compressed well, the ultra violence seemed necessary, and I loved the way they changed the ending.

The one thing I hated was the sex scene, it went on for way to long and I may never be able to listen to Hallelujah the same again.

Johnny C:
The ultra-violence was way unnecessary but at least, unlike in 300, it wasn't celebratory.

Movie was alright. The new ending actually works, almost. Nite Owl was good, Comedian was good, Rorschach was good. The music was hilariously bad, not just the soundtracking but stuff like the godawful Law & Order music that played when Rorschach walks away from Nite Owl and tells him, "You quit." The woman who played Sally Jupiter played her in old age like a MADTV character. The sex scene goes on too long and is kind of baffling. Rorschach's last scene is really powerful and then instantly gets deflated which kinda sucks. A good chunk of it was kinda ham handed ("The Comedian... is your father"). Some of the audience didn't seem to get at first that the violence is supposed to make you kind of uncomfortable but I think they got it by the end. Still didn't justify a bunch of scenes where they BEAT UP THUGS except Snyder actually managed to include a subtext (!) that suggests that the heroes kind of got off on the violence and the idea of vigilante justice which isn't morally vindicated at any point and in fact gets morally muddled when Silk Spectre knocks out a cop. Nixon's nose was dumb as hell.

But aside from that it was fun and not actually that bad and they managed to get some of the tone and themes right.

KvP:
No that's the thing, I really don't believe the violence was intended to make the audience uncomfortable. At least, as in every action movie there's violence that is perpetrated against good people, which is bad, and violence perpetrated against ethnic minorities gang bangers and terrorists, which is so awesome. How can you be uncomfortable when the characters are having such fun? The Comedian is an exception because he's set up to be this guy who harms good people as well as bad people. Rorschach is an exception because he's, well, never having fun. But Nite Owl and Silk Spectre both kill numerous people without batting an eye. When Manhattan implodes people it's basically gross-out comedy. In the comic the alleyway confrontation is set up as this tense thing, the heroes don't want to come to blows. In the movie they're fucking Bruce Willis, smirking and removing their glasses so they don't get brains on them. And after that they decide to don the costumes again, apparently because of the violence more than anything.

Which is the main thing I'd cite when talking about differences between the source material and the adaptation - the source material isn't a hollywood testosterone exhibition. the adaptation is, but it effectively takes on the airs of the comic without really embracing it outright. I've heard a lot of people say that the action scenes were "necessary". They were only necessary in that nobody would bother to see a straight adaptation of Watchmen. That would just be depressing, right?

Johnny C:
It's not like that goes unremarked though. When Silk Spectre rams the knife into the dude's throat it's juxtaposed with Manhattan talking about how dead and living humans are basically the same. The fact that the heroes seem to treat the violence as playtime muddles their morality and that of the criminals. The heroes don't seem to be in it entirely for the justice. And that makes sense, kind of – there are plenty of ways to enact justice that don't involve dressing up and beating on people, yet Laurie and Dan do that.

I don't agree with the hyperviolence or the way it's handled, but I admire the fact that the film backs it up.

JD:
I skimmed over the book after watching the movie and noticed how many details they got. Little thing like the outfits, they nailed em perfectly.



Best thing abut watching this movie: A kid went eww early in the movie and got STFU from another guy

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