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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4720979" data-attributes="member: 8158">Saw it on IMAX yesterday. Pretty much what I expected of Snyder based on the 300: lots of gratuitous slow motion, a soundtrack alternating between guitar riffs and morose overtures, and an overemphasis on exposed flesh.I enjoyed it, but I can see where someone who hadn't read the series wouldn't make a lot of connections. For instance, the revelation that the Comedian is Laurie's father is supposedly devastating, but the movie really doesn't set that up. We don't get to see the altercation between the two of them at the state party (where she throws her drink in his face), we don't get her haranguing Rorschach for describing him as a fallen hero, and we dont' even get the info that Laurie doesn't really know who her father is (she thought it might have been Hooded Justice). Someone not familiar with series doesn't know about any of that. They get the impression that they worked together (the Watchmen are portrayed as a team, rather than the one-time failed assembly of the Crimebusters) and that she thought he was pretty cool when she was younger. The only other connection between the two of them prior to that is a few off-hand comments early on between Laurie and her mom.OTOH, the movie fixes a lot of the contrivances of the book, chiefly the ending, plus stuff like the nonsensicality of [spoiler]hiring an assassin to kill you when you could just hire him to shoot whomever you're with (you're going to kill him afterwards anyway)[/spoiler]. Also, the characters are a bit more even in terms of their strength of character. You don't have lots of dumb, simpering character portrayals (particulary Drierberg). Dan is actually the leading man of the movie, whereas the comic is all shared billing.</blockquote>

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