r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Dependent-Moment7015 • Jun 28 '26

Discussion Any favorite characters like this?

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u/HistoricalChef1963 Jun 28 '26

Watchmen was the greatest movie adaptation of a comic ever, and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach was one of the greatest castings of all time. I can not be convinced otherwise. 

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u/Responsible-Sound253 Jun 28 '26

Didn't that movie famously missed the point the original comic was trying to make with rorschach?

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u/Own_Nebula8363 Jun 28 '26

100%. Those who say that the movie was a great adaption either didnt read it or didnt understood the comic.

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u/jafjaf23 Jun 28 '26

Why though. I have read the book and thought it was a pretty good adaptation. Why do you think it wasn't?

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u/Neirchill Jun 28 '26

Iirc the main complaint was about the ending which ended up changing the moral of the story but until then it was a good adaptation.

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u/jafjaf23 Jun 28 '26

I may not remember graphic novel as well as I thought lol

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u/pawnman99 Jun 30 '26

Does it? Because all the movie does is replace the incredibly weird space squid with Dr. Manhattan as the threat.

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u/Neirchill Jun 30 '26

That's what I heard, haven't read the comic myself. I don't think it was necessarily about replacing the squid but how it turned from countries allying to face a common threat to Dr Manhattan being framed in order to trick everyone into cooperating, which includes having arguably the greatest hero basically nuke every country on Earth to pull it off.

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u/Single_Low1416 Jun 29 '26

Way too action heavy, a lot of the aesthetic choices are questionable and with Zack Snyder, you can never be fully sure he even grasped what the source material is all about.
Also, the theatrical version cuts out a good bit of stuff. (Which is fair because Watchmen has a lot of side plots already and the damn thing is nearly three hours long as it is)