AV Club has a thoughtful side-by-side comparison of the book vs. movie.

Heh. Patton Oswalt tells you what to watch.

(He's got good taste: BSG, FNL, Burn Notice, Dollhouse....)

You've got to respect the specificity of his comparisons:

Or Sunday night, for that matter? This Sunday is the Season 2 premiere of BREAKING BAD, the best show you weren't watching last year. Bryan Cranston won a much-deserved Emmy, and that was for a truncated, 7-episode first season. How did you guys miss a show about a trampled, neglected genius, who turns his skill at chemistry into a fledgling meth empire, all the while battling cancer -- a cancer which, when undergoing chemotherapy, turns Cranston into a bald, black-clad arch-villain? And, of course, he's forced into an alliance with (as his dopey, meth-head partner puts it) "a psychotic clown" drug dealer named Tuco. Lex Luthor and The Joker, roaming the New Mexico desert, with no World's FInest in sight. The 6th episode of Season One -- "Crazy Handful of Nothin'", is one of the best hours of TV I've ever seen -- up there with "Every Mother's Son" and "The Subway" from HOMICIDE, "Old Cases" from THE WIRE, and "The Pine Barrens" from The Sopranos. BREAKING BAD is compromised villains who create their own false good, played out in a forest of food clubs, strip malls and bland, sinister architecture. A must-see.

I actually prefer the "College" episode of Sopranos but "Pine Barrens" is a worthy little mini-movie in its own right.

AV Club has a thoughtful side-by-side comparison of the book vs. movie.

I pretty much agree with everything she says. Except she concludes the book and movie are somewhat different, but perhaps equally good - I'd rank the book much higher than the movie.

but perhaps equally good

I didn't get that impression from her critiques, specifically of the acting, Snyder's ultraviolence, wrong-headed missing of bigger themes etc.

From the article:

in a scene that seems like it was stolen from Oldboy.

DH made the exact same comment about that scene.

Completely agree with this:

I get why Snyder did it. It just makes me tired, like all his super-slo-mo sequences. It’s so easy, making superhero characters who casually take mere mortals apart with their bare hands. What’s hard is making them human.

Super cool and fascinating Cindy Sherman film short from 1975 Doll Clothes. (Not exactly safe for work, though she is dressed in her underwear.)

I get why Snyder did it. It just makes me tired, like all his super-slo-mo sequences.

I'd add, I found Rorshach to be much more believably dangerous when he won his prison fights through, as he put it, 'his perspective' than through simply being a harder hitter. It fits his character much better.

answering the questions above re: watchmen

yes I think #2 was somewhat lost on me. I didn't think it was a Weekly World News, but I didn't think it was a legit news organization either running out of a storefront. I didn't know what it was.

#1: I'm not sure what the name of the Act was, but Nite Owl repeatedly talked about being arrested when he was in his mask and suit with Laurie, so it was pretty damn clear that superhero actions in capes and masks were outlawed.

I wouldn't read too much into walk outs. People walk out of Slumdog Millionaire all the time.

edit: OK, not 25% of the audience. We haven't had anybody walk out of Watchmen yet (that I'm aware of.)