• @ChicoSuave
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    112 months ago

    As an aside, the one thing the movie did better than the book was Ozymandias’ plan and execution.

    • @waddle_dee
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      82 months ago

      That’s a bold take that I don’t see many people take, who read the comics lol. May I ask why you view that?

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Spoilers yadda yadda

        Is it really controversial to say “framing superman as the threat we need to unite the world against to stop nuclear armageddon” is a better plotline than “I’m going to make it look like aliens attacked us, but in the goofiest way possible, with a plot device necessitating the existence of real psychics in a world that hitherto otherwise seemed to only have Dr. Manhattan as a genuine “otherworldly force””? Reading the graphic novels really threw me for a loop when that scheme was explained, lol.

        • @waddle_dee
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          32 months ago

          You know, I don’t think in all my life, since reading Watchmen multiple times, I made the Dr. Manhattan - Superman connection. In hindsight it is a little silly lol. I think, I always just liked the visceral look of the squid, and didn’t look much further past that. Thanks for opening my mind!

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            Isn’t “The superman is real, and he’s American” a direct quote from the novel? Or at least one of those “additional blurbs” written from the perspective of the first Nightwing, unsure if those were “bonus content” or if there are versions of the novel with just the comics.

            • @waddle_dee
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              12 months ago

              I always remember that as Wally correcting a talk show host saying, “I never said the superman is real and he’s american. I said G-d is real, and he’s american.” So, I guess I never associated it with Superman and more or less as, the super man.