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[โ€“] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The good thing about the Watchmen movie was that the ads and hype were the first time I'd heard about it, so it got me to read the Watchmen which is an amazing work.

The bad thing about the Watchmen movie is everything else

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The worst aspect is Zack Snyder seems to think Rorschach is a cool dude with cool ideas. They made him talk normally in the movie, maybe that was so he could be more easily understood, but it didn't feel right. He's supposed to seem deranged. In the comic he talks in squiggly text boxes and in an odd kind of halting, broken English. He's not bad at speaking English, he's become so unstable and antisocial his social skills have atrophied. Jackie Earle Haley came across as too earnest or too confident. Like that scene with the therapist reading the ink blots, Rorschach in the comic comes across as pathetic. He's done, doesn't care, doesn't want to live. He says he sees flowers and trees because he just wants to leave the therapy session. In the movie he comes across as like this snickering badass ready to cause trouble. He's like "heh, you can't handle my twisted mind, doc." I hate it. Synder completely misread the scene.

At least the TV show had the guts to show Rorschach would eventually inspire a white supremacist movement

[โ€“] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

It's weird because Roschach still comes across as a disturbed weirdo, but he definitely ends up being turned into a more murderous version of the fascist interpretation of Batman.

[โ€“] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100-com it wasn't Watchmen it was Rorschach: the Movie.

Considering thr fact that Rorschach is a stand in for the American crypto-fash to straight up fash lines of thinking that inform the superhero genre, its not strange that Snyder would think hes a cool guy with good ideas.