Glad to hear it.

Though admittedly, it would be a wee bit weird.

Totally not accurate to the movie, but would be funny nonetheless.

It's compounded by the fact that Snyder has made an adaption that is far, far, closer to the book than ANYBODY would have aniticipated. The squid is really all the haters have to cling to, and so they are desperately, loudly, clinging.

However.. IF you add to this the Intrinsic Field subtractor as a secondary desctructive "fallout" of the "Bombs", that exterminates any lifeform within it's "ground zero" with a similar horrific effect to that which tore Osterman to pieces, on a grand scale, then that might just push it into the realm of shock and horror needed.

We'll need to wait and see of course.

So we get to Antarctica and Veidt's all "we need a common threat blah blah blah" and we learn that he was working on creating an alien to attack New York to unite the world and then Dan is all "We'll stop you" and Veidt is like "you don't have to because in the end I realised that the whole Squid idea was pretty lame"

And Rorschach is all "didn't go through with it. Saw sense."

And Veidt is like "no I just had Jon here nuke the place...20 minutes ago...even though he was on Mars"

And Jon is like "technically I was on Mars, here and New York at the same time"

And Dan is like "Dude that's some twilight zone shit right there."

And Rorshack is all "Those missing people. The lab here. Killed for nothing. No squid. Entire journal useless."

And so the final scene is Rorschach sneaking into to the newspaper office to make some quick changes to the journal

"Must change. Otherwise plot incoherent."

He looks over to see a fat guy eating a donut, dripping down onto his smiley face t-shirt.

"Could try New York Times instead."

Rorschach leaves with the journal.

Fade to black. End Credits.

So if he is responsible and then he leaves...what's the world united against? Yes, with the Squid there is no actual threat beyond the initial attack since the Squid was man made, but in the minds of world leaders it could be a vanguard for an all out invasion.

I suppose it could be a case of the world uniting to prepare in case Jon ever comes back but it seems hollow.

The advertisers have done their jobs well. The only thing these "updates" are doing is reminding me that it is, in fact, not March 6th yet.

The problem though is that a change like that has repercussions for the entire story. Everything from the Comedians death to Rorschach's journal is affected by that change. Plus, does Manhattan care enough to help Ozy create the new generator? I mean he fucks off to Mars pretty quickly and before that he is just going through the motions with no real connection to humanity anymore.

Frankly I'm not a massive fan of Watchmen, I actually think the novel is good but overrated and for the movie I'm looking to be entertaineed even if it's not completely faithful. But I can understand why so many people are pissed.

However, guys thrown out windows to their deaths and brutal cleaver murder of pedophile is probably no problem for mommy.

Anyone know if any of the fast food chains are doing tie-ins with Watchmen?

Bush and Clinton decide to team-up and get revenge. Being ex-presidents they know where there are a bunch of nukes hidden away. They take the nukes and use them to blow up a whole bunch of U.S. cities and cities around the world.

Of course the rest of the world would not be mad at/suspicious of the U.S. if two ex U.S. presidents nuked the planet. The whole world would unite to fight Bush/Clinton. Uh yea right.

There used to be a real cool haunted house that was run in my city for charity every Holloween. It was great, scary as hell.

I saw a mother, granted she was in her late teens or early twenties take a child that could not have been more than two years old into that thing.

The security guys at the door spent several minutes trying to talk her out of it. She would not listen to them. Personally if I was the security guy I would not have even let her in. About 90 seconds after our group got inside the haunted house the kid starts screaming like it had just been knifed. The poor little thing was terrified. The staff at the haunted house finally got their shit together and escorted her out. But I think that kid is still probably a bit fucked up by that experience to this day.

Umm... care to qualify that? I wish Devin (or anyone else) could explain why this is presumed to be a non-starter for a comic book movie?

Screw geeks for demanding adherence to the source material?

No subjects in my posts until the squid is back in!

Spoiler. Even now, spoiler.

It's not the squid that's important. It's the massacre. Why it needs to be a got-dang squid is irrelevant. Anything that could destroy the city and have the blame put elsewhere is the point of the sequence. Right now, I simply don't understand why, other than simply having a workman-like attachment to the graphic novel, the squid is the thing that people need. But I'd like to understand.

(ahem)nobody(ahem)

Doc: Fear. The "God hates us!" factor.

Both work.

jeez, some of you are really anal at times.

Or any actual failsquid.

I had a suspicion Snyder wouldn't be able to handle this but I still gave him the benefit of the doubt that he might pull something out of the bag. Looks like Alan Moore was right after all: it isn't possible to translate the comic into a film - as the comic itself was designed to tell a story in a way a movie can't.

And before you fanboys plunge into mass-depression, suicide pacts etc, remember this: just because the movie's a dud doesn't mean the comic has been 'ruined'. The comic is still there, and is still as good as it's always been.

PS. The Squid sucks ass.