If the ending is EXACTLY the same...

[AutoDecept]

I have a question. Would anyone here mind if the squid was changed into a more menacing and more alien-looking creature for the film if everything else in the ending was left exactly as it was in the novel?

 

[Figs]

Do you think the general public will understand it/appreciate it? Or do you think this movie would end up being one only a select few, comic book fans notwithstanding, could appreciate?

I kind of wonder myself. Alan Moore's Watchman ending is very...complicated...since it relies on a subplot and also is a commentary on comic books in a lot of ways, as is much of the comic. I read Watchmen a long while ago, and have been meaning to reread it, but I remember my friends, that I loaned it to, didn't really "get it". They liked it, some of them, they just...ah...missed the boat.

So, just so we're clear, this is not a debate about how faithful this movie will or won't be, it's a debate about whether being faithful would work for a mass audience.

For the record, I couldn't give a flying f*** what the general audience would think...

I definitely agree with your last line.


Personally, I think most...not all, but most general audience members would get it.

There's way too many fanboys out there that always complain and assume that the GA are mindless morons. A lot of that has to do with the GA being the biggest contributer to mindless summer popcorn films. You know why?? They like those films because it's a nice break from reality and bills and real drama that you face in life and at work when your not on a message board all day.(that rant isn't towards you ShadowBoxing, just in general to all the fanboys who think GA members are incredibly stupid for the movies they see)

Personally, although Watchmen is deep...it's not that deep to where your average non comic reading adult is going to be confused. It's just fanboys have such pride for what they love(which usually is why their made fun of...at least in the younger immature days)that they blow it out of proportion.

Final words...if Snyder keeps the majority of the dialogue close to the graphic novel then it will explain perfectly to the audience what is going on. So no, I don't think most of the GA will have trouble following this film.

 

[CaptainGenerica]

There's way too many fanboys out there that always complain and assume that the GA are mindless morons. A lot of that has to do with the GA being the biggest contributer to mindless summer popcorn films. You know why?? They like those films because it's a nice break from reality and bills and real drama that you face in life and at work when your not on a message board all day.(that rant isn't towards you ShadowBoxing, just in general to all the fanboys who think GA members are incredibly stupid for the movies they see)

Amen to that. We tend to forget that there really is no such thing as a single homogeneous "general audience", and if there is, it includes us too. It's not as though us comic book geeks are specially-equipped to understand the concept of large dangerous squid-beasts, or morally ambiguous plot developments.

 

[Overman27pj]

I think they will love the ending if it is the same.

I read comics for years and years before I heard of Watchmen. Anyone who seriously reads this book will love it, and I'm hoping that will transfer onscreen.

 

[Figs]

I think they will love the ending if it is the same.

I read comics for years and years before I heard of Watchmen. Anyone who seriously reads this book will love it, and I'm hoping that will transfer onscreen.

I keep trying to get my girlfriend to read it just because I'm curious to see what she thinks of it.

No luck though...

 

[Ryudoz]

I keep trying to get my girlfriend to read it just because I'm curious to see what she thinks of it.

No luck though...

I got my wife to read through the first chapter. She thinks Rorschach is crazy nuts, but seems to be enjoying it so far. I wonder what she'll think of the TotBF.

 

[Figs]

I got my wife to read through the first chapter. She thinks Rorschach is crazy nuts, but seems to be enjoying it so far. I wonder what she'll think of the TotBF.

TotBF??

 

[The Battousai]

TotBF??

Tales of the Black Freighter, of course

 

[Figs]

Tales of the Black Freighter, of course

hahaha...I'm dumb.

 

[StillTheKing]

All I know is that if they keep the original ending the general audience wont understand it. And Im cool with that. But if the general audience are like my stupid friends they will hate the movie because of the ending. I can see it now...all my friends will complain that the movie sucked and the ending sucked and they will hate the movie because they dont like the ending. Screw them, keep the original ending, theres no need to change it.

 

[CaptainGenerica]

All I know is that if they keep the original ending the general audience wont understand it. And Im cool with that. But if the general audience are like my stupid friends they will hate the movie because of the ending. I can see it now...all my friends will complain that the movie sucked and the ending sucked and they will hate the movie because they dont like the ending. Screw them, keep the original ending, theres no need to change it.

One might hope that they're more like a friend of mine to whom I recommended Watchmen. He was underwhelemed until the ending, whereupon his opinion of it became "Holy ****, this is awesome".

 

[Katsuro]

One might hope that they're more like a friend of mine to whom I recommended Watchmen. He was underwhelemed until the ending, whereupon his opinion of it became "Holy ****, this is awesome".

I recommended the book to a friend a while back, and he's been slowly reading it for weeks. He's been enjoying it, but I wanted him to hurry and get to the end. He just sent me a text, "finished Watchmen, holy ****".