@Thousand:
Wait, so did you like the movie or not?:ermm:
Uhm, no. I liked it visually. It was a miss on pretty much every other level except for the opening. I thought I'd already made that obvious.
However, cutting the squid was one of the few sound editing decisions he made, just due to the level of setup (at least 20 minutes worth) and WTF-ery it involved.
@Hinscher:
I mean there are so many things that are a total mystery. how where they like super strong and fast for one.
In the book they weren't. They were ordinary humans being crimefighters. No super powers or matrix-fu. Just ordinary humans trying to be extraordinary. Thats one of the main crucial themes that Sneider completley missed that cuts into the entire message of the story. That you think they had super powers just shows how much he utterly, utterly failed.
(And the entire point of the sex scene… in costume. Dan couldn't get it up when he was Dan, but as NightOwl he could get laid. Which again, Sneider completley missed the point of. He didn't get the whole potency/fetish/fantasizing thing, instead he tracked it to Hallelujah, one of the most over amv-ed songs there is, turning an intimate important moment into a farce of a nudey scene.)
too many characters and flashbacks to try and explain them all in a short movie. I could go for a while, but i would prefer to not have to think more about that movie than i have to.
Nightowl, Rorscarch, Comedian, Dr. Manhattan and Silk Spectre. And Ozymandias as the villain. Only 6 main characters. He also screwed up the flashbacks. I think it speaks volumes of how much he failed when you feel like 6 characters is too many in a 2 and a half hour movie. And to think, he cut out all the secondary characters.
But yeah. for the sake of the movie it might have worked better to just do it all in sequence chronologically, and just show 30 years of time passing, instead of out of order like the book. It might have flowed better and worked better as its own entity.