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[knightofbob]

So, I did read Watchmen, and I really have to say it, I liked the movie better. Further, and I knew this from the beginning, most of the people who claim to have loved the book more are hipsters. They're easy to spot. If they're too young to remember the Cold War, they're a poseur. If they like Watchmen, but have disparaging comments about Ayn

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[sataniscooler]

The movie was really, really faithful to the novel, honestly, and I was mostly happy with it. Two things about it irritated me:

1) Chick who played oh, what's the damn name... well, the main girl, Dr. Manhattan's woman. Anyway, that chick can't fucking act, and I could deal with that if she weren't basically the focus of the movie, but she is, so it was very distracting.

2) The sex scene. Overlong and overdone. I get what they were trying to illustrate, but it could've been done with a bit more subtlety.

All in all, I felt the novel took itself more seriously and thus had more of an impact. It's not an enormous difference, but for me, it is there, at least to the point where if asked whether I'd rather reread it or rewatch it, I'd go with reread.

[knightofbob]

The more I think about the differences, few as there may have been, I think the changes tended toward the better. And the movie's ending made a hell of a lot more sense than the book.

Basically all the casting left something to be desired. Most of the actors did well enough, but they were obviously chosen based on appearance rather than ability. Zack Snyder is apparently not much of a director.

The sex scene was too long in the book, too. I'm convinced that Alan Moore just wrote in the script "Our audience consists almost entirely of teenage boys. Better work some tits in there if we want to keep their attention after all this blue wang."