These were posted elsewhere by me but I'll throw them over here for a different discussion, I liked the movie a lot, but had a few issues.
In the comics, one of the main themes is that these are regular people in costumes, Doc Manhattan is the only one with real powers and everyone else is a guy in a mask, a regular guy who made a decision to do something different. In the movie they are not regular guys in costumes, they have super powers. Regular guys don't punch through walls, get slammed THROUGH a table and a granite bar and then keep fighting like it didn't happen. Regular guys don't turn people's arms inside out with a single punch. Regular guys don't make five foot vertical leaps onto a fire escape.
It was what made Ozy's bullet catch so awesome in the comic and so blase in the movie. In the movie, of course he could do that, all the masks were super-human, unimpressive.
Another issue was peripheral to the violence, in the comic, these regular guys were reluctant to use violence, especially Dan, in the movie, they seemed eager.
And the third and last one, Ozy. He came off as more of a super villain than as the hero who sacrificed his humanity for the greater good. In the comic we saw him uncertain at the end, he asked Doc Manhattan if he did the right thing.. I would have liked to see that in the movie more than smugness.
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Date: 2009-03-12 06:48 pm (UTC)In the comics, one of the main themes is that these are regular people in costumes, Doc Manhattan is the only one with real powers and everyone else is a guy in a mask, a regular guy who made a decision to do something different. In the movie they are not regular guys in costumes, they have super powers. Regular guys don't punch through walls, get slammed THROUGH a table and a granite bar and then keep fighting like it didn't happen. Regular guys don't turn people's arms inside out with a single punch. Regular guys don't make five foot vertical leaps onto a fire escape.
It was what made Ozy's bullet catch so awesome in the comic and so blase in the movie. In the movie, of course he could do that, all the masks were super-human, unimpressive.
Another issue was peripheral to the violence, in the comic, these regular guys were reluctant to use violence, especially Dan, in the movie, they seemed eager.
And the third and last one, Ozy. He came off as more of a super villain than as the hero who sacrificed his humanity for the greater good. In the comic we saw him uncertain at the end, he asked Doc Manhattan if he did the right thing.. I would have liked to see that in the movie more than smugness.
I still liked the movie though