Never saw that before. How many people died in those buildings, though?

Even a friend of mine born in 1950, who had been reading comic books for decades and selling them for a long time when that story was published, said, “Nope. Imaginary story!” I think it was a hoax or a trick, myself.

One of the greatest moments ever in a superhero movie.

Routh would have been perfect as Captain Marvel, but he’s likely seen as tainted by now having been in four comic book projects, twice as a hero.

The guy on TV is making a damned good effort at it, though.

Maybe the second.

This was basically Matt Murdock in the Daredevil movie. He slept in a deprivation tank because he couldn’t sleep, otherwise. Even so, he knew horrible things were happening that he just couldn’t and wouldn’t hear.

Routh should have been Captain Marvel (Shazam to the heathens). Every bit of his Ray Palmer shines like Billy Batson’s transformed self. Maybe they could have done the movie without the lots of gags mentality.

Thank you. For some reason, I thought you meant slavish to the comic, which didn’t feature Cohen. Sometimes, my brain doesn’t work so well.

Precisely. I tried to explain this to a few people back in 2009, but they wouldn’t listen to the chain of logic people here have laid down. I think it might be communicated better by removing the science-fiction element of Manhattan from the equation. Instead, present it as coming from a real-world source.

In the comic, the aging former heroes play dirty. Laurie grabs somebody’s nuts and yanks. Dan puts fingers in a guy’s nostrils and rips. There isn’t any exaggerated fighting. Snyder’s supposedly faithful movie ignores that.

How is the use of “Hallelujah” slavish? Awful, yes, but slavish? I’ve missed something in your meaning, I guess. Thanks.

The kid says “It’s the Watchmen!” Rorschach, Dreiberg, and Juspeczyk form an out-facing defensive triangle as the crowd and the cops move toward them. Either Dan or Laurie asks whether people will understand what happened to them, in their world, and listen to their warnings. Tight on Rorschach’s mask as he growls,…

According to Goode and Snyder, that somewhat odd accent Goode uses when he’s with trusted people is supposed to be German. Yep! They stuck a Nazi into the movie.

Because that’s not the point of “Watchmen.” Snyder’s movie was to the comic as the Demi Moore “Scarlet Letter” was to Hawthorne. Tonally.

Moore and Gibbons based Veidt on JFK and Robert Redford. He was supposed to be an immensely wealthy, talented, and brilliant man who, nevertheless, was immensely attractive on a personal level to nearly everyone. How the writers and Snyder missed this completely puzzled me from the early trailers.

Because the selection is larger by an order of magnitude, if not two.

While the Jack Palance Jekyll and Hyde TV movie was not particularly good, it did a fine job of distinguishing the two personae without going into pure caricature.

“From Hell” is Moore’s masterwork. It’s not supposed to be pretty. It’s supposed to be as murky and ugly as Whitechapel was physically and the upper-class settings were, morally. The focus is on the behavior of the characters, as it should be.