Why is no one talking about the Watchmen trailer?

Why is the squid unfilmable? Just green screen in the fucking psychic squid. I'm pretty sure the audience can figure out what the hell it does.

 

Methinks you give audiences too much credit

 

I actually think the squid is a weak link in the comic: it's the only time psychic abilities are mentioned in the Watchmen universe and the only instance of "superpowers" of sorts aside from Doc Manhattan's, which seems something of an afterthought to me. Still, it was the way the ending was conceived, and I don't think anyone's entitled to rewrite it. Even a work's creator sometimes fucks it up with revisions - George Lucas and Spielberg with their endless doublethinking of their movies, for an instance. Greedo shot first my ass.

They're ok, nothing exceptional though. Frank Miller has kind of gone batshit insane since his glory days with The Dark Knight Returns (which he soiled with TDK Strikes Again, by the way). Nowadays he seems to only be able to write badass guys being badass and uncompromising. Hell, his upcoming Spirit "adaptation" (an impossibly loose usage of the term here) almost makes me glad they fucked up his 300.

Still, I think it's the best point of comparison, since Robert Rodriguez did exactly what Snyder claims to do; using the comic as a bible for his movie.

Yeah, now that you mention it I recall The Shining having some major changes to the ending, been a long time since I read it though. Still, don't recall any such alterations to the other two, even if A Clockwork Orange followed the american release of the book instead of the original and so cut the ending.

 

I've heard tell that basically the reason the squid won't be in the movie is because they're cutting out the whole island of artists...

Well, fuck.

 

They're not replacing it, though, afaik. They just decided it would take to long and without it the squid wouldn't make sense, so they're just throwing in nuclear lasers or some shit.

While I don't think the artists' island was the greatest part of the story, I really like the idea of Veidt using a group of artists to create his final solution. Juxtaposition of art at odds with Veidt's cold intellect, the little moment on the ship; I mean, while yeah, it's not an essential part of the plot, it still provides a lot of good moments and it does nothing to hinder the storytelling.

 

Cutting stuff out to save time I'm not viscerally opposed to. Tom Bombadil, for an instance, or the painstakingly thorough descriptions of yuppies' clothing that dragged on for pages in American Psycho; the first was very much a side-story to fit an old character, the latter was just characterization that made it pretty intact to the movie. The thing is, the squid is impossible to just cut out without a replacement, and so the rewriting kicks in. Also,

According to the rumours, they are indeed.
[spoiler:18bb1064d4]Veidt builds a machine that simulates Doctor Manhattan's powers and blows up I think a couple of cities around the globe. Dan witnesses Jon killing Rorschach only God knows why, and Jon exiles himself to keep world peace.[/spoiler:18bb1064d4]

 

Watchmen saturday morning cartoon

First of all, don't worry, its a parody.

I couldn't find the Watchmen movie thread so I am making a new one for this.

Just found it on Youtube.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w[/youtube]

Cartoon producers would honestly have done that in the 80's if they had the opportunity.

 

I like how it subtly spoils a major plot point if you just look closely at a certain scene.

 

That is the single funniest thing ever made in the history of things being funny.

Holy.

Shit.

 

i think its a genius juxtaposition of the cheesiness of saturday morning cartoons with the super seriousness of alan moore's work

 

I liked Rorsharch with the dogs .

 

What did they use instead of the squid?

If it was "nuclear beams" or some nonsense, how do they explain that the US would simply have blamed the USSR, thus defeating the entire purpose of Veidt's plan.

 

[spoiler:67ede974a2]If the squid was such a bad idea, couldn't they have made it something from a Lovecraft story, rather than suddenly turn Dr Manhattan into a villain?
And how long would that remain effective, I could see the USSR and other countries blame the US for failing to control him.[/spoiler:67ede974a2]

 

I know Sander.

[spoiler:c8973e138d]The thing I have with it is that people apparently so quickly fall for Veidt's altered scheme to think Dr Manhattan has turned into a destructive monster, instead of the "This Island Earth" in which people thought they were attacked by an alien invader, hence turned aside their conflict with another to unite against any future invasions.[/spoiler:c8973e138d]

 

On the plus side she looks a lot like Laury.

[spoiler:e6312c6af9]The main problem I see is with the writing. For one, they omitted Silk Spectre's antipathy toward her father, making her psychological break down not make any sense.

Then there's fucking Ozymandius. His part is completely f'd in the translation. There is no more ambiguity at all.

I don't want to go on a rant. Long story short, the writing fucked up the dynamic of the characters.

[/spoiler:e6312c6af9]

Arbitrary changes.

If I was Alan Moore I'd be pissed.