I’m a comic book fan… still read both Iron Man and Capt America actively. The following review is intended as contrast to the graphic novel and attempts to avoid spoilers.
First and foremost, let me say that the movie was an amazing translation of the book to the big screen. Everything looks just the way it should, more or less, and I was amazed they captured it so well. There were some small changes, most notably the costume design for Ozymandias and the design of Dr. Manhattans martian fortress, but both were minor. In fact, I thought the redesigned fortress actually was a good movie because it mimicked Jon Osterman’s watchmaking history, resembling clock cogs.
It was accurate to the point that I felt like I was watching a re-run and actually a little bored. Unlike a traditional novel where your interested in how someone else envisioned the source material, translating a graphic novel is a more straight forward process and they nailed it.
Naturally they chopped a lot of the sub-plots and condensed back stories in interesting ways, but all of them I thought were done in such a way that they didn’t leave the story lacking. The title montage I thought was a very clever way to fill in a lot of back story, or at least glimpses of it, while saving on time.
The big issue was of course the “new ending”. If you hadn’t read the graphic novel it would seem like only a minor detail, but I think it was significant. Frankly I didn’t like the ending of the graphic novel, I thought it was lacking… but the new one was even yet more lacking. Other than that detail it was true to form and all wrapped up in the same way. The ending bummed me out, but I doubt audiences could have handled it.
During the film I was surprised by the audience reaction. The brutality of the violence shocked many people in the theater, although anyone who’s read the graphic novel knows they only showed glipses of the real brutality. More importantly, I didn’t think it really came through that short of Dr. Manhattan no one actually had powers… I think many may just think they had really sucky powers, but powers none the less.
Personally, I think the real theme of the graphic novel was futility and facade. Things aren’t what they seem, people are just trying the best they can but it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. In this, certain characters shine, those who’s either fully embraced the futility (Sally Jupiter, the Comedian, Ozzie, etc.) or more starkly those who reject it entirely (Rorschach). I’m not convinced that those themes came through in the film. Frankly, getting that out of the graphic novel takes some thinking, which is the genius of it, trying to make sense of all this chaos, as a reader. The ends justify the means… even if its morally wrong…. I’m curious how many viewers who’ve not read the graphic novel will catch that. Its still there, although not as pungently.
If you saw it please write a review in your blog or comment here. I’m very curious in the various reactions to it.
I loved the movie and will see it again today with the wife. It was a beautiful translation.
I think more than anything it was Rorschach’s story. The ending is more of a statement that he would rather die than live in a world of peace because he knew that it was a phony state – that we all live in conflict. And he even guaranteed that after he was gone, the peace would be short lived – something that I think was left a little more uncertain in the original story.
Personally, I liked the new ending more because it tied better into the whole of the story rather than coming out of nowhere like the original squid. It touched on another message from the story – our fear of supermen.
I haven’t seen it though they filmed it down the street from me and the facade city they created next to a mall to film it is still standing! I can’t wait to see if now after reading your post!
I thought it was garbage, and definitely a thorough waste of my three hours. If you could stand the awful acting for that long, then at least the herky-jerky pace would make your brain explode, or the blatant inconsistencies throughout the film. Why does Dr. Manhattan sometimes wear “underwear” and other times time? Why do we get the back story of all the other characters, but not Nite Owl?
Even though I had never head of the story before seeing it, and not having read much about it beforehand, and actually been very sceptical of it when I first saw the trailer, I really liked the film.
That is except the ending, or in fact I liked the ending, but despite some good things happening in this alternative history, like winning the Vietnam war so the South Vietnamese would continue to be free (and the Hmong, who are featured in Gran Torino), the end was a really horrible prospect. A unified world, where Nixon is in cooperation with the Soviets, who by the way suriveve as Reagan is marginalized, and the much sought after peace is obviously a triumph of evil over good. Literally a peace through submission to an undemocratic centralization and coopting of the most evil powers in the world. I am on Rorschach side in this.
Thank God this world didn´t come to be, our asses were saved by the three heroes, Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul, and of course the fighting of the people of Afghanistan.
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