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Hall Kogan
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 |  Subject: Is it just me or is the Watchmen movie ending stupider then the GN ending?  Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:58 pm | |
| ok so | Spoiler: | | | in the graphic novel, Veidt secretly has millions of people killed with teleporting exploding mutant squids to distract from a looming nuclear war and force global tolerance via posing as a unified alien threat. The "heroes" ultimately agree to keep this a secret and go on with their private lives. This is basically just Alan Moore hurr durring because, you know, killing millions of people in pseudo-nuclear explosions sure stops millions of people from getting killed in nuclear explosions, and Veidt certainly has the resources to legitimately pose as a vast alien army in the long run.
Whoever wrote the movie tried to make this better, but it just turned out worse imo. Rather than aliens and giant squids, Veidt teleports these giant metal pseudo-nukes on timed charges that emit an Anti-AT Field that greatly resemble Dr. Manhattan's abilities of exploding people on a city-wide scale. Humanity turns their guns from eachother to another unified threat: Dr. Manhattan. Fascinating, except it immediately falls apart after this scene due to the exact resolution being cut and pasted from the graphic novel like absolutely nothing is different. The "heroes" again decide to allow Veidt's atrocities to go in secret, because lying to the world to unify them against Dr. Manhattan somehow guarantees peace while honestly revealing Veidt, who now has the exact same technical ability as Dr. Manhattan, wouldn't create the same unified threat and would just lead to more infighting. |
what.
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Moontoon
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| | Subject: Re: Is it just me or is the Watchmen movie ending stupider then the GN ending? Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:00 pm | |
| I like /tv/'s interpretation of the ending now | Quote: | | Theorizing that one could time travel using his powers, Doctor Manhattan zapped Rorschach and he vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was made through brainwave transmissions, with Owlman, his best friend, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Rorschach could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Rorschach finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next leap will be the leap home. |
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Chosen Zelos
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POOPOO MCBUMFACE
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| | Subject: Re: Is it just me or is the Watchmen movie ending stupider then the GN ending? Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:45 am | |
| I can see it being utterly confusing to anyone who didn't read the comic. It wasn't a very good adaptation. Tried to remain too faithful to the source to give it a life of its own, but could never have captured everything that made the source good. So it ended up just a weird pseudo-superhero movie with big blue dongs. _________________  |
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Chosen Zelos
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| | Subject: Re: Is it just me or is the Watchmen movie ending stupider then the GN ending? Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:31 pm | |
| | Moontoon wrote: | | Yeah you're right. Sorry. Guess it just wasn't my type of movie. |
lol, fair enough. =P
| POO wrote: | | I can see it being utterly confusing to anyone who didn't read the comic. |
Maybe not to me, I saw the movie before reading the comic and i didn't find it too confusing. Then again I watch a lot of weird sh*t so I guess I'm just adaptable that way.
| POO wrote: | | It wasn't a very good adaptation. |
... What?
| MCBUMFACE wrote: | | Tried to remain too faithful to the source to give it a life of its own, but could never have captured everything that made the source good. |
Sigh, first fans complain about comic book movies being not faithful to the source material, then when one is, it's TOO FAITHFUL. At this point, I just don't care. <_< Though I get your argument. If it's a truly dead on word for word adaptation from the book ... why not just read the book?
| Quote: | | So it ended up just a weird pseudo-superhero movie with big blue dongs. |
Eh, I'll give the movie that. I mean, I've seen bigger, but I have yet to see bluer. |
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POOPOO MCBUMFACE
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| | Subject: Re: Is it just me or is the Watchmen movie ending stupider then the GN ending? Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:50 pm | |
| | Chosen Zelos wrote: |
| POO wrote: | | It wasn't a very good adaptation. |
... What? |
Rest of the post was tied to this sentence. Come on, pay attention, you can do this.
| Quote: | | MCBUMFACE wrote: | | Tried to remain too faithful to the source to give it a life of its own, but could never have captured everything that made the source good. |
Sigh, first fans complain about comic book movies being not faithful to the source material, then when one is, it's TOO FAITHFUL. At this point, I just don't care. <_< Though I get your argument. If it's a truly dead on word for word adaptation from the book ... why not just read the book? |
You're right. I complain about things not being faithful to the source material, even if they're good on their own accord, all the time. Especially that one time where... uh...
It's not just "too faithful". It's too faithful to have a life and style of its own, which would be okay, if it ever had a chance of capturing every element that made the original comic great. The Watchmen movie never had that, simply because a movie capturing every element of the comic would necessarily have been about six hours long. Zack Snyder tried his best, ballsed it up, and gave us a movie that was neither a good adaptation or a good movie in its own right.
There's being faithful to the thematic and central points of the source, while adapting it to the strengths and limitations of a totally different medium, and there's making an unimaginative scene-for-scene adaptation without really understanding what it is you're making, and I get the feeling Snyder went with the latter._________________ |
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Chosen Zelos
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| | Subject: Re: Is it just me or is the Watchmen movie ending stupider then the GN ending? Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:23 am | |
| | POOPOO MCBUMFACE wrote: | | Chosen Zelos wrote: |
| POO wrote: | | It wasn't a very good adaptation. |
... What? |
Rest of the post was tied to this sentence. Come on, pay attention, you can do this. |
I know. I just did that for comedic timing cuss ... well, I'm bored.
| Quote: | | You're right. I complain about things not being faithful to the source material, even if they're good on their own accord, all the time. Especially that one time where... uh... |
Were you being sarcastic. I could tell cuss I don't keep track of people's posts that often. Maybe you do. I dunno.
Also I wasn't directing it towards solely you, but the majority of fans and stuff.
I still think it was a pretty good adaption. Not perfect, but enjoyable. It has it's moments that make me not want to hate it. I dunno. |
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