remindmeofthe | (no subject)

omg. Watchmen, you guys. Was so pretty.

I've only read the book, like one and a half times, and I don't really remember enough to comment on changes in any depth, but a couple that struck me:

* Rorschach's shifting mask. I am undecided. On one hand, it LOOKED SO COOL. On the other hand, it was clearly done for no reason other than to LOOK SO COOL, which is annoying. But it succeeded so well! I don't know. I stand corrected! Nothing to see here, move along to the next bullet point. (That LOOKED SO COOL.)

* New ending = win. The original involved, like, a tentacle monster, right? I remember going, ". . . okay, then" when I read it. The new ending doesn't have that hokey weirdness factor, and makes sense with the rest of the story - it feels like a logical culmination of Jon's increasing isolation, and is a clever (Veidt's cleverness, to be specific) use of public sentiment turning against him with the cancer set-up. AND, as promised, the messy bleakness is preserved. I approve.

* I also approve of the portrayal of violence. It isn't the clean harmless Comic Book Movie Violence we've gotten used to. Blood is shed, bones break, and worse (I nearly gagged when little Walter bit that kid's ear off, and I've never had my gag reflex almost tripped by movie violence before). It makes sense with the point of the story, the subversion of the superhero fairytale, and while it never occurred to me to think about what the violence in the movie might look like, I realized pretty quickly that anything cleaner would have undermined the story. It's gross and somehow much worse than watching nastier things happen in slasher movies, but nothing else would make any damn sense.

* And a bit that doesn't need to be under a cut - I ♥ Jeffrey Dean Morgan. We all knew that.

(Also, seriously, so pretty. Regardless of what you think of the story, you have to admit it was all fucking gorgeous.)

Then after the movie I stopped off at a bar for a quick beer and ended up listening to part of a live musical set that included two Tenacious D covers. Geek night: complete success.

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I probably shouldn't have read I nearly gagged when little Walter bit that kid's ear off while eating. :P

It's just, the way it was presented (or maybe just the way my brain works), I could feel in my mouth what it would be like to bite someone's ear off and BLEARGH.

Hope you finished eating. :D

Rorschach's mask shifts in the book, though.

I agree, it was very pretty visually. I'm probably gonna hafta go see it again, I think I spent most of the time just going, "Oooooo, lookit that."

Does it? I didn't notice. I am not a visually inclined reader. Which, yes, does make reading comic books occasionally difficult. XD From what I remember of the origin of the mask, it seems unlikely that it could have been the constant liquid shifting that it was in the movie (maybe incidental shifting just from being worn?), but my memory is not what it could be.

It does shift in the book - Walter explains it - there's a black viscous fluid-type thing caught between two layers so the pattern kept changing.

Excellent. I am happily wrong, because I can now revel unreservedly in HOW COOL THAT LOOKED.

:D