‘Superman & Batman’ movie will follow ‘Man of Steel’

[Mudd]

Snyder captured Watchmen as perfectly as would be possible in a commercial movie. I mean, fuck the squid monster.

 

[ITL]

Snyder captured Watchmen as perfectly as would be possible in a commercial movie. I mean, fuck the squid monster.

Yep, and yep. I'm no big Snyder fan, but I do like this movie. I can watch that title sequence all day...

 

[Mr Light]

I missed the giant squid

 

[Tyberius]

I thought the changes from the comic to the film were good. Doc Manhattan was a better deterrent. The parking power stations were better as an epilogue (why was there a crisis in the comic anyway?)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I always thought the biggest problem with Watchmen, like all Snyder movies, was Snyder. For example, you know from the first moment you see Ozymandius he's the bad guy. Lost is any mystery.

I've never read the book, and I didn't get that impression at all. He was a cool, ambivalent character, but by no means an obvious villain.

I'll stick up for M'rk here. I don't think it's quite that obvious in the movie, but the movie has a distinct lack of credible suspects for the "mask killer." What Roger Ebert termed "The Law of Economy of Characters" -- movie budgets and story demands mean that no character is extraneous -- really makes Ozymandias stand out as more significant that he appears to be.

I think the book almost gets away with its lack of red herring suspects, because that plot gets pushed to the background and simmers for a while. It's a bit more foregrounded in the film.