The graphic novel is unfilmable, IMO. Having said that, there were some incredibly well-realised scenes in that film.

 

that's more like it

 

watched it once and loved it now on my hd box recorded


great film

 

The opening scenes are a very good homage to the graphic novel.

However, I don't like the film making Dr Manhatten appear to be the one to be behind the bomb. I see why they excluded alien but don't like Dr M being thought of as this all powerful god that punished the human race.

I also think the story of Dr M was rushed - its my favorite part. I would have prefered a few minutes less of the bonking and some more of his story.

 

There really is a lot to like in that film, but a lot to dislike. I don't like the way they treated the back story of Rorschach - the genesis of his character when he simply butchered the child murderer with a cleaver instead of the ingenious and sadistic way he dealt with him in the novel. I hear the idea had already been nicked by a different horror film. I don't like the bad sex scene where Silk Spectre sits on a button and sets off the flamethrower in the Owl Ship. Much funnier in the novel where she thinks the button's for a *** lighter! I hated the way they blamed it all on Dr M in the end -that was pathetic. And the Veidt/Ozymandias character was far too physically slight and ghey looking to be remotely convincing as a terrifyingly intelligent "superman".

More later.