Watchmen review (spoiler)

[[AK]Nuts]

No Squid.
Changed Rorschach's dog/child killer story
No Arctic scooters for Dan and Rorschach.
No Squid

I bought the graphic novel when it was released and still have my 1st edition at home. I've read it about three times in the past 19 years and know the story well. Thus, Synder's dedication to accurately recreated the comic resulted in a rather flat movie for me. I knew every line. I knew every scene. There was no build up... no anticipation. I could have just sat at home and re-read the comic.

Unlike a film adaptation of a novel in which the Director may the present the audience his interpretation of the book or maybe his vision of events differ from those in your mind's eye. A shot-by-shot or actually panel-by-panel remake of a comic leaves nothing for the directoryto surprise the audience with. They know what's coming and that kills something special in a movie.

But I must admit that Synder held true and did one hell of a job ensuring that every single shot was done with perfect homage to the comic. He took few liberties (dog & squid).

I look forward to a review from one of you that hasn't read the comic.

[[AK]Bribo]

I'm no fanboy. I recently read the graphic novel for the first time. I wanted to read it before the movie came out.

I like the movie. I really liked the movie. I thought the movie was excellent. Was it perfect? No. But then a film adaptation of a classic novel never is. But I thought Snyder did a fantastic job and hit all the right notes.

Squid: No big deal for me that they changed this part. To be honest I thought the ending in the movie was actually better and made more sense than the squid.

Rorschach's dog/child killer story: This was changed because they thought the whole "saw" thing was already done in the Saw movie and that people would claim that they were just copying Saw. Pretty lame. I think they should have stuck to the story here. Minor quibble though.

Arctic scooters: Very minor. I didn't even notice/remember.

Nite Owl/Silk Specter II encounter in Archie: YOWZA!

BTW, the wife never read the book and loved the movie (although thought it was a bit long.)

[[AK]StitchJones]

Loved the movie, I'm fine with it's running time.

It's a very amazing visual movie that is worth seeing it on the big screen. Or in my case IMAX :-)

[[AK]Bribo]

It's a very amazing visual movie that is worth seeing it on the big screen. Or in my case IMAX :-)

Or in your case... IMAX Lite as Crossgates doesn't have real IMAX.