Diabolical wrote:You guys haven't really mentioned the new ending. Does it work?
the movie version of the ending works because it still does the same thing without throwing you a complete curveball (space squid). it utilizes the already-established suspension of disbelief fostered in the audience as opposed to them trying to buy another whole level of oddity.
Senor JabbaJohnL wrote:As I wrote elsewhere, I saw it and liked it but didn't love it. It seems like one of the great things about the graphic novel (which I haven't read) was the depth, and it seemed like they tried to cram too much stuff into the movie and couldn't give it all justice. A friend I saw it with (this was her second time) loves it but loved the book, so who knows.
i'm not sure that there's all that much more
depth in the book... just a lot more
weight. the movie was perfectly distilled, forming all the correct points but cutting the wheat from the chaff.
For the whole "transcending the genre" thing, Dark Knight did it a whole lot better.
but it wasn't
supposed to 'transcend the genre' - it's a commentary
on the genre. unfortunately, the book was taken seriously and along with 'DKR' (the comic, not the movie) partially ushered in the mid-80's era of 'grim and gritty' comics which basically led to movies about batman that take themselves a little bit too seriously.
anarky wrote:I was wondering why the one commercial that intersperses his interview with the shrink only had "butterflies" and the other cutesy stuff he said. I thought it would've been a much better commercial if it had that, and, at the last shot of the ad, it had him saying, "I see a dog with its head smashed in."
Wonder no more: he only says cutesy stuff there. After each one, it cuts to a part of his past.[/quote]
which, once again, was a perfect way to distill the multiple sessions with the doctor into a manageable amount of time. in an example of not enough time, they hit all the points they needed and got rid of extraneous stuff.
And was it just me, or were the effects kind of shitty?
which effects? the only complaints i've heard were for dr. manhattan, which i didn't agree with. the mars scenes were incredible, the owlship was awesome, rorschach's mask was great...