Fanboys welcome.

Yes, it was!

yeah it was good lol

I am Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Niiice

Are you being snarky?

JOIN MY GAME y'all

I mean except for the poor musical accompaniment, really contrived acting and heavily condensed plot it was alright. I mean, action sequences were nice and it looked pretty good.

Thucy - the best part was really a quotation from somewhere else?

The music was good. Haley deserves an Oscar nod. The plot was hardly condensed. JOIN the GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a difference the word "THE " means in the English language these days. watchman was shit vs watchman was THE shit.

cant wait to see it when it comes out in japan.

Kirk, the music was questionable... I liked the songs, but their appropriateness is doubtful.

No, the plot wasn't condensed, but the character development and mythology certainly was.

It was a decent movie all the same. Saw it in IMAX. Haha, it was hard to read headlines and other texts because I had to read across a gigantic screen.

oh man, I loved the music. With the one exception of "hallelujah" during the sex scene, everything seemed to fit really, really well for me. I mean, that was the music that was around when the comic came out anyways, why not use it?

That said, I've heard people say they love/hate the music about 50/50.

I loved the music, the acting was top-notch, but the omissions from the comic were deplorable.

Having never read the graphic novel but as a fan of comics in general, the movie was great.

The acting was decent...a but campy, but I thought it fit well into the dialogue and the attempt at making it comic-like. In fact, that was one of the best parts...the comicy look and feel.

The music was fine with me.

But my favorite line (and character) of the movie was Rorschach's: "I'm not locked up here with you...you are locked up here with me"

One more comment...again, I haven't read the comic, but one review stated that only Dr. Manhattan had super powers. I mean his are obvious, but while the others weren't as near omniscient as he, did they all not have some sort of super speed or strength?

In theory, no, they had no super speed or strength, just will and training.

I haven't seen the movie yet, so I don't know if they're portrayed as realistically there as in the comic, but that's the theory.

(To be fair, I don't find even the comic's portrayal of Ozymandias entirely realistic. I am thinking of one scene in particular.)

okay, but what about Rorschach's mask? If that's just ordinary cheese cloth, where do I get me one of them?

That wasn't a superpower, just bad-assed-ness.

okay, who sells bad ass cheese cloth?

@Rorschach's mask:

‘1962. Special order dress in new Dr. Manhattan spin-off fabric. Viscous fluids between two layers latex, heat and pressure sensitive.’ —from Rorschach's biography of himself, Chapter VI, page 10, panel 2.

Similarly, the Owlship, while pretty tricked out, is within the range of what was possible for the Manhattan-advanced airship technology. Everything super comes from Dr. Manhattan.

Ahhh...okay, that explains everything. I was just about to ask about the Owlship and it's hovering goodness.

I still say the comedian is my favouorite character.
Question, though: was the smiley-face button his personal thing?

Again, I haven't seen the movie, but the Comedian wears a smiley face throughout all of his costume changes in the comic. (Although it doesn't take on the familiar shape and colour until the '70s, which is when that design became popular in real life.)

I kknew that much, but I was asking if it was unique to him... I suppose my question wasn't clear.

Do you mean, do any of the other vigilantes/superheroes use a smiley-face button? No.

Or do you mean, does anybody in the Watchmen universe use a smiley-face button other than the Comedian? I'm not sure about that.

I hope that they did keep in the movie that some of the action on Mars took place on Galle: http://www.msss.com/education/happy_face/happy_face.html

Ah, I don't know why, but I kept thinking other people used it, especially after that scene on Mars... That face was, in fact, shown.

One that you get a lot of in the comic (and I hope in the movie) is where something in one scene references something in another scene without any deliberate intent on the part of any of the characters. So there ARE lots of hidden smiley faces in the comic, but they're only there for the reader's pleasure, as references to the Comedian. Or in other words, they're part of the artistic work, but not part of the story.

I wasn't thinking of that when I first answered your question.

There were a few in the movie, not as many in the comic, (which I read a little bit of).
I have to say, I was a little disappointed with the lack of the "comic within a comic," which was cut entirely from the movie.

Ozymandias caught a freaking bullet...

I know it's stated he's the smartest man in the world, but he kicks everyone else's ass... it seems he's also the strongest and fastest... he's just the ultimate human... I mean, he's an arrogant dick, but his delusions of grandeur are realities of grandeur. For all of Dr. Manhattan's super powers he was still easily manipulated and outsmarted by Ozymandias. Let's just say that if the Watchmen ever played Diplomacy, I have no doubt that Ozymandias would win.

I suppose that would be a good phpdip name, eh?

Someone will register it (if not already) and we'll see him here...I'm certain. =D

Damn, I would love to be Ozymandias on here....

Ah, well.

From what I've heard, Ozy outsmarted Dr. M even more thoroughly in the movie than in the comic.

Yeah, to the point where Dr. M was the lynchpin in Ozy's plan... (Then again, I don't really know what it was like in the comic...)

Yeah this is true.

And he did catch a bullet.. that's powers if you ask me.

@Chirs & Thucy:
Yeah, that's the scene that I was thinking of.

I think that it's pretty clear from the comic that this power is SUPPOSED to be simply a result of Ozy's highly focused will and the extraordinary training that he put himself through. And that Ozy himself (at least) believes that it is a power within the ability of every ordinary human being to achieve.

To quote Ozymandias from the appendix (which therefore probably didn't make it into the movie) to Chapter XI:
‘The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possible to accomplish almost anything. Possibly for the “ordinary person.” There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.’

I suppose that it's debatable, but I take this at face value. In the Watchmen universe, while there is one person who obtained god-like powers through a freak accident, it's also possible for ANYBODY to obtain übermensch-like powers. As Ozy is the only person to have done this, he is super in a way. But as these powers are available to everybody, in a way he is not super at all.

Or you could argue like this: Ozymandias's superpower is super-strength of will, and everything else comes from that.

@Onar:
In the comic, Ozy had to scheme to get Dr. M out of the way. And he had a back-up plan to keep Jon from ruining things if he came back. As far as those go, they're probably about the same in the movie.

But the linchpin, as you say, is different. It involved Dr. Manhattan only in the sense that it relied partially on advanced technology that he helped make possible. Even correcting for that, it also makes the story less realistic, which may be why they filmmakers, even after undoing most of the changes in earlier draft scripts, still changed the ending.