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[talkingsoup]

Watchmen.

Holy shit, guys.

I finally read it, yeah, yeah, in anticipation of the movie, I know. Bandwagoner here. In any case, regardless of the movie, I'm glad I read it because it is a damn fine example of a comic book, and at the same time is a damn fine piece of literature. And I mean that quite literally. The amount of thought and detail that went into it, the content, the characters, it deserves the title of "literature."

I'm still not sure what I think about the ending, but...well, I won't go into that.

Apparently the movie makes a few changes, probably the most notable of which is that there are no squid bombs. Which makes sense, honestly. UNEXPECTED CTHULHU BOMB WAS UNEXPECTED. Seriously, where the hell did that come from? Still, doesn't get much more awesome than squid bombs. Except maybe dinosaur bombs :Oa (Highlight for spoilers, hooray, I figured out the html!)

Everyone's going nuts over this movie, and yeah, I'm excited for it. Glad I read the book, certainly. In any case, it'll be a good way to kick off Spring break :)

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[notlynn.livejournal.com]

HELLO PEN. I'm lurking your LJ because I've added you (this is Lynn / forkedelement / Edgar's player) and allow me to say that the movie is decent, even though this post is a thousand years old so you might have seen it already anyway. But, anyway, it's kind of just like watching the key plot scenes of the comic realized in 3D, with a few subtle nods to the things they left out (which only comic readers will catch). The only major changes come in the last third or quarter or something (like you said, no squidbomb). BUT that's really all it is. It doesn't do the magical tingly things the comic does... or, er, not on its own. It gives ME a boner, but without the comic behind it I can't imagine I would have appreciated it half as much.

[talkingsoup]

Oh definitely. I loved the movie, but I don't think I would have liked it as much if I hadn't read the book first. ALSO, I actually liked this ending better--not necessarily because of what Adrian did instead, but mostly because of subtler things, like the fact that Dan actually reacted to Ror's death. Frankly I thought the ending in the book was a little rushed and, even putting the squidbombs aside, very WTF. Everyone just seemed really...OOC, I dunno.

BUT, it was okay because the book was brilliant as a whole, and so was the movie.