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Unedited thoughts from a Facebook message to Seventy:

so i liked it too and recognized all the problems that everyone else had.  most of them i was able to explain to myself even though they didn’t feel right (bloody action scenes, veidt’s arc, malin akerman, the music).  my biggest issues is the ending.  i don’t necessarily think that the squid should have been there, but the shock of seeing the carnage after it attacks is totally gone.  all the action scenes are over the top bloody but this wasn’t shocking at all.  i’m not sure if it was intentional but it made me remember this movie Fail Safe from the 50s (the president drops a bomb on new york to keep the russians from attacking everwhere).  plus they showed the explosion in the trailer, which took away any shock value.

overall, he had a pretty impossible task.  but i dont agree the book is unfilmable, its all there… more than most adaptations of books.  the thing that could never be replicated was the impact it had on comics.  how could that possibly translate, since comics have been building off of watchmen for years, and there’s nothing in book that would revolutionize movies the way the comic changed comics.  if citizen kane were made into a comic, the story would be there but the importance could never make that transition.
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