io9.com reports on the Watchmen screening.

[thebitterguy]

The news can be considered "not good".

I don't think we had any illusions it would be a great movie. But I think we were all assuming it would be a fairly accurate one. Faithful, as it were, to the source.

This... appears not to be the case.

Comments

Re: To hell with the squid.

[madmanofprague]

I wasn't going to watch the movie before, but now I will probably be as adamant that I not see it as I am with V for Vendetta.

No pirates was bad enough.

[deven_science]

I had already heard that the ending was changed, and I think Snyder was the one who said it. Oh well. I thought the squid was probably the silliest part of the comic.

[granolademonic]

Even if it is loyal, fuck that movie.

[jirris_midvale]

I saw it. I was in the audience at the same showing.

I love that comic; I often refer to it as "(superhero comic here) is to Watchmen as (popular kids book) is to Moby Dick".

The movie was a work of f'ing love.

yes, they changed the ending. Did it end up being better for it? Fuck yes it did. They couldn't pull off giant space squid with the time they had. There were a lot of subplots they couldn't do based on the time they were given or the medium (film does some things that comics can't and vice versa).

You know that iconic scene with Manhattan fifty feet tall and working on the big machine? Spoiler:That's the energy device Ozzy blows things up with. You see it in the first 30 minutes of the film. That is how you slap and audience with shock.

They did a great job on it. The movie is one of the most faithful (both in plot and spirit) adaptions I've seen. It's mean and gritty and uncompromising on being the comic. Those guys complaining about it, they are just looking to fuss and tromp around in their nerd sandbox.