Ailleann, so you would have preferred the exploding psychic space squid? Why? (I'm just curious; haven't seen the movie yet.)

I think it isn't so much she wanted that entity, but that there was no action necessitating cooperation given the way the movie resolved this issue. Terrorism acts were done, and I guess we are to infer that people saw the devastation and decided by themselves that war was futile and they should cooperate? The connection between A and B wasn't made well.

I'm not sure what the graphic novel says about this, but if Ozymandias had such a low opinion of humanity, why would he assume that this new level of cooperation would stick for more than 10 years?

it probably could have been longer

speaking on behalf of the exhibition industry, might I suggest two movies? Either that or we need to start charging more for the longer ones. Most movies we can show five times a day. The three hour beasties we can only show four times.

MM I beg you on behalf of all iphone users please use the quick edit for spoilers!

Signed, Stuck in the park until D wakes up from his stroller nap with only the interwebs for company.

please use the quick edit for spoilers!

Or, if you don't want to use the quickedit, DON'T use <font color="white">. Use <span class="spoiler">.

I still haven't seen it, but I am not bothered by reading all the spoilers (it's not like I don't know what happens).

It sounds like, as I feared, Zack Snyder is very capable of framing and digitally color timing every shot so it looks just like the comic.

But the story? He didn't get it. That, or somehow he thinks Alan Moore is exactly the same person as Frank Miller, and that they tell basically identical stories.

Sean, that was my feeling exactly. Alieann's forest/trees analogy is pretty much dead on.

(Oh and my complaint to MM is that I can't read his whitefont because I can't highlight text on my phone. My personal css displays the spoiler class as grey. )

I wonder if I loved it mostly because it could have been so much worse. Way back when MM was dream casting Gibson as The Comedian I was casting Tim Robbins as Night Owl.

Okay, I apologize for the old skool spoiler font.

You kids today and your newfangled css and autogyros. Back in my day we threw carved tablets at each others faces and called *that* the Interwhatevers.

Okay, back on my computer with the magical power of copy-paste.

The build up to the novel's moment of [spoiler] had me going "GUHWHAAAAHHH JESUS!" the first time I read it and still leaves me a little kind of breathless with every re-read, whereas in the movie it was "Heh."

So very much THIS. Also the movie version had me going, No Adrien, you must have launched AN HOUR AGO BECAUSE THAT'S HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN FUCKING STANDING HERE TALKING.

And it was annoying to me how every hero was [spoiler]

This too. It worked in 300 because that was the entire movie and those guys were legendary warriors. These guys are not. (Which was just one of the many points from the book that apparently went right over Snyder's head in a fucking awesome slo-mo arc and then splattered gloriously onto the wall.)

Speaking of splatters, that was another thing that bugged. I always envisioned Dr Manhattan's "you die now" power as a wave of his hand and, poof, your particles cease to exist. Maybe there's a little boom from the spatial displacement of removing you from the universe, maybe there's a big explosion because explosions are cool, but the splatter porn we saw here was Right Out.)