So, yeah, I saw it too.
Rorshach's Diary: The Early Years.
"Coach showed up drunk today. Obvious signs of moral weakness. He lives with another man, very fastidious. Possibly homosexual. Must investigate further."
A lot of people have talked about the film, and opinions range from the Very enthusiastic to the slightly less so.
Visually, I think they did a bang up job recreating the book's look, which is I suppose one of the advantages of adapting a hyper-detailled graphic novel. Much like a fantasy epic that's been envisioned by the Brothers Hildebrandt.
Narratively there were a number of issues. A lot of them have been talked about to various degrees, but the one that just got under my skin was the way Night Owl's arc was handled. In the original graphic novel, as things progress, he decides to spring Rorschach from prison, and the result of this is he ends up nearly destroying his life. His secret id is compromised, and his mentor is murdered as a direct result of him and Silk Spectre freeing Rorschach from jail.
Sure, in the end him and SS make a place for themselves in the Brave New World, but only at the cost of their old ones.
As for the sex scene, well, they just showed the guy was impotent. Snyder needed to make sure we knew he wasn't just turned into a premature ejaculator instead.
Take that last bit as serious as you want.
"Coach showed up drunk today. Obvious signs of moral weakness. He lives with another man, very fastidious. Possibly homosexual. Must investigate further."
A lot of people have talked about the film, and opinions range from the Very enthusiastic to the slightly less so.
Visually, I think they did a bang up job recreating the book's look, which is I suppose one of the advantages of adapting a hyper-detailled graphic novel. Much like a fantasy epic that's been envisioned by the Brothers Hildebrandt.
Narratively there were a number of issues. A lot of them have been talked about to various degrees, but the one that just got under my skin was the way Night Owl's arc was handled. In the original graphic novel, as things progress, he decides to spring Rorschach from prison, and the result of this is he ends up nearly destroying his life. His secret id is compromised, and his mentor is murdered as a direct result of him and Silk Spectre freeing Rorschach from jail.
Sure, in the end him and SS make a place for themselves in the Brave New World, but only at the cost of their old ones.
As for the sex scene, well, they just showed the guy was impotent. Snyder needed to make sure we knew he wasn't just turned into a premature ejaculator instead.
Take that last bit as serious as you want.