He knows his time is coming to an end, and accepts it just as quickly as the news is delivered to him.

Yeah, I’ve already read this story done right...

Is it just me, or does sound an awful lot like Death and Return of Superman and Reign of the Supermen?

Someone at DC actually had to stand up and propose that they kill Superman, give him multiple Superman replacements and add an energy Superman into the mix. And nobody said anything...

That’s definitely a solid interpretation. No apologies necessary. Like I said, you completed the thought. Which considering what we are saying, is sort of meta-hilarious.

Yes, that’s kind of what I was trying to say but you’ve crystallized it. He can see there’s something there, but he doesn’t understand what he’s seeing.

wb.

original script idea WAS for superman, batman, etc.. WB changed the plans, first to captain atom and co, and then moore just made his own versions.

saying Snyder has more ‘balls’ than moore, considering their careers, is both uniformed and frankly dumb

You make that comparison with the implication that Alan Moore and Zack Snyder were both trying to say the same things with their respective works (Watchmen in the former case, and Batman v. Superman in the latter). I think you’re giving Snyder a lot more credit than he deserves. I see no evidence that he has a deeper…

Alan Moore wanted to use DC characters, but the editors didn’t want him killing off their characters, so he had to change it to original characters. (Pretty sure they aren’t in the public domain though.) So... it’s more a case of who had the tighter editorial control.

Of course, to borrow a phrase that makes no sense…

It’s not supposed to sit right. It’s a big dumb monster, juxtaposed next to horrific images of civilian casualties. Does the dichotomy of fantastic imagery with the gritty unpleasantness of life remind you of any other aspects of Watchmen?

He also generally fails to actually ask the big questions coherently.

I feel like this praise is fairly damning, really. It hits exactly on Snyder’s biggest flaw as a filmmaker: He is apparently capable of seeing deeper than the surface, but incapable of bringing his films there. Everything he does is beautiful to look at but ultimately superficial bullshit.

The framing-Manhattan ending makes no sense to me. The whole point of the giant alien squid plan was that humanity would have to put their differences aside and unite in the face of a terrifying external threat; whereas the movie ending leaves the world trying to figure out how to respond to the apparent actions of…

The comic’s giant squid monster was silly as hell (Ozy kidnapped every artist in the world and they collectively came up with THAT?) but the movie’s version makes even less sense. So Doc Manhattan (the public is led to believe) has gone crazy, and this is supposed to end the Cold War and unite the world? The US spent…

The comic ending was a tad hokey, and I can see why they changed it on film... but the solution they came up with (‘Dr. Manhattan’ destroying the world) was terrible and doesn’t hold up to the idea of “logic”.. If America’s living super weapon went on a rampage, the rest of the world wouldn’t be all “oh America, we’ve…

The opening sequence to Watchmen (set to “The Times They Are a Changing”) still stands as one best opening sequences to a movie ever. Snyder manages to squeeze so much backstory into that song montage, going from scene to scene to scene, bringing to life panels, showing us bits and pieces, that’s it’s just beautiful.

Public Domain?

Watchmen the film is Watchmen the comic as read and understood by a 13-year old boy whose only takeaway was the sex and violence.

No, it does not because it was never good to begin with. Not that anyone could have done it as it’s a near unfilmable work. It’d need to be a 12 episode series on HBO to even come close, but even then you’d need the light, patient touch of an artist, not the slamfisted approach of a style merchant like Snyder. The…

While I haven’t watched it in a while, my thought at the time was that it was probably as good an adaptation of the comic as we were likely to get. I didn’t think it was perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but it did do several things well, and some things near perfectly. If Ozymandias had been cast a bit…