Should've been done thirty-five minutes ago ... *ba-dum-tish!*

[mononoke_007]

My mouse scroller thing is stuffing around again. Ugh. Add that to my phone, which has gone completely bonkers, and my headphones, which keep breaking. Technology doesn't like me.

Anyway! Watchmen. :D

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[tahu]

I think you hit the nail on the head with a lot of the comparisons, especially considering the differences between the ending. gembat and I both agree that the squid is the only way the book could have ended--showing all of those panels in complete and utter silence, it's like a dead weight on your shoulders and it fills the reader with immense dread and sadness because of all that silence that is just there. You can't imagine how all that death would feel, and I always equate it to sound because that's just how I read (I imagine sounds); you don't know what all that death would sound like.
They couldn't have carried that over in the movie. Since you're in an audience with a lot of people, if anyone moved or made a sound it would take away from the illusion that the world as we (or, they, the chaacters) knew it was completely and utterly gone and we would realize it's all fake, it's just a movieThe Manhattan Bomb ending suited the movie because it was stimulating and energized and got you caught up in the moment of it just as well as the

[mononoke_007]

Icon love! xD

That's actually a really profound way of looking at the topic, through the use of sound, and I hadn't actually consciously considered it. That's what makes the comic ending so affecting, having so much death and devastation happen in those panels and having no sound to kind of distract you from it. You get the full force of it all. You're absolutely right - an ending like that would have lost its impact in a cinema full of people.

True. I guess it just gets to me because I love thinking of Rorschach and Dan back in their kickarse crime fighting days, before the Roche case completely messed Rorschach up (and I know there never really was any indication that they were ever really close friends, but in my head I just see them being awesome together and actually caring about each other >.>;;), so when I think about Dan not being there when he dies ... guh. >.< This is what happens when personal canon collides with actual canon, I guess

[tahu]

Yay! I'm such a film nerd. XD
I once read a camera movement breakdown of one of the scenes in The Dark Knight and I got all pissed 'cause they guy pointed out two reasons for a circling movement but failed to recognize the obvious. Fuffufufufuu.

Citing the "sound factor" is about the only way I can describe to fans how it works and have them understand, including myself. I liked the movie ending for the movie, but I couldn't figure out why it couldn't have worked for the book until I figured that out. Once you get it figured out, it makes a hella lot of sense.

Hmmm. Going from book to movie, there wasn't much I would change, actually. They did a great job in keeping almost everything. I did hate that they didn't show Hollis's death scene, though, since he just kind of becomes a loose end and that's something no movie wants.

So yeah. :>

Omg I love talking about movies. I'm such a neeeerrrrrddd. xD

[mononoke_007]

Hooray for film nerds! 8D
That's the good thing about reading those kinds of breakdowns and articles, though - you can find things to call them out on. xD

I'm very much with you regarding Hollis's death. I was sitting there at the end of the film wondering, did he die in the bombs, or did something else happen to him? But in one of the B-Rolls you see them filming the scene where Dan beats up the knot-top who tells him about Hollis's death ... so it might still turn up on the DVD/s somewhere. Hopefully.

Talking about movies is just so much fun. So many different interpretations and opinions to consider. =D