I love this! The graphic novel (most likely the greatest graphic novel of all time) and Zack Snyder's (who also directed 300, Legend of the Guardians, and Sucker Punch) R-rated film (released July 2009) were a masterpiece! These are real superheroes! BTW Alan Moore is the England-born author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta with an exceptional writing talent. Rorschach, Dr.Manhattan, Silk Spectre II, Nite Owl II, and Ozymandias! 5 stars!
@frankrizzo51 cheap?! The movie was a like million million bucks production. Even if they had no connection between the two they couldn't expect to use one man for a mans and woman's voice!
I think this is a much better ending. i hate when the hero has to make the world think they are bad to keep some secret. ( the second batman with the gross joker). the girl should have shot him twice, or once in the head when he was down. the ozymondo guy should not have been allowed to live on.
i dont get alot of bitching and whining on how the ending of the film was too different from the comic, the ending is virtually the same, personally, makes better sense.
3:55 steam from the splatter and the handelbars of that scooter, in front of circular entrance to Veidt base, looks just like hands of doomsday clock that's counting down minutes, to the end of human kind
@pealand I agree with that and it does make prefect sense. But my thing is that because it was Rorschach who was killed, it was more tragic and affecting than if any of the other characters would have been killed (except Dr. Manhattan who can't be killed of course).
Of all of them, Rorschach was oddly enough the most human and honest despite being a "paranoid, obsessive psycho". What's your opinion of that point?
Wow! This ending is so morally complex that there are literally dozens of legitimate ways to view it....
Having said that, I agree with several people before me who side with Rorschach. While all of the characters are well written and developed, Rorschach was by far the best.
It's almost funny, his death, the death of a single person, was just as affecting as the deaths of 3 million.
@1215ra Stalin was quoted as saying "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic". In some ways it seems Moore used the death of Rorschach, (as well as focusing on the deaths of all the established 'civilian' characters) to make the tragedy more powerful.
Laurie is SO ANNOYING!!! Her powers are limited to being super irrational, complaining all the time, and is just an overall bitch.
Night owl is a nice guy, but has no balls and is pretty much just a follower, never taking charge himself. He has even less personality than the brain-dead, emotion driven Laurie, following her around, asking HER "what do we do now?".
Dr. Manhattan is an A. Hole. He kills the only human worth anything in this whole comic book, then leaves for another galaxy.
Rorschach, a paranoid, obsessive psycho is the only human being worth anything in the whole story. The ink blots are objectively meaningless, it's the observer that gives them meaning. Rorschach saw the world a certain way, gave it its meaning and never doubted it. Humanity might be meaningless to the Universe, but it is everything to us. Rorchach never abandoned his humanity.
Joke's on you, the hobo won in the end...
DoomDingo 1 month ago
...so after all that, the fate of the world rests not on the heroes but on some dopey slob, an everyman.
smokingm0nkeys 4 months ago
@smokingm0nkeys Not bad, didn't think of it that way,
DimmedDiamond 4 days ago
I love this! The graphic novel (most likely the greatest graphic novel of all time) and Zack Snyder's (who also directed 300, Legend of the Guardians, and Sucker Punch) R-rated film (released July 2009) were a masterpiece! These are real superheroes! BTW Alan Moore is the England-born author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta with an exceptional writing talent. Rorschach, Dr.Manhattan, Silk Spectre II, Nite Owl II, and Ozymandias! 5 stars!
Osher621 4 months ago
@frankrizzo51 cheap?! The movie was a like million million bucks production. Even if they had no connection between the two they couldn't expect to use one man for a mans and woman's voice!
SuperDarkserpent 5 months ago
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TheVoiceOfReason93 5 months ago 12
I think this is a much better ending. i hate when the hero has to make the world think they are bad to keep some secret. ( the second batman with the gross joker). the girl should have shot him twice, or once in the head when he was down. the ozymondo guy should not have been allowed to live on.
TEAMSZABO 6 months ago
i dont get alot of bitching and whining on how the ending of the film was too different from the comic, the ending is virtually the same, personally, makes better sense.
theXramoneXpistolsXP 6 months ago
Why did they only use one voice actor?
SuperDarkserpent 7 months ago
@SuperDarkserpent Most likely they went on the cheap. This series was a literal translation of the books.
frankrizzo51 6 months ago
3:55 steam from the splatter and the handelbars of that scooter, in front of circular entrance to Veidt base, looks just like hands of doomsday clock that's counting down minutes, to the end of human kind
Luqash 8 months ago 7
@pealand I agree with that and it does make prefect sense. But my thing is that because it was Rorschach who was killed, it was more tragic and affecting than if any of the other characters would have been killed (except Dr. Manhattan who can't be killed of course).
Of all of them, Rorschach was oddly enough the most human and honest despite being a "paranoid, obsessive psycho". What's your opinion of that point?
1215ra 8 months ago 2
I love the way the story could tilt either way based on of Seymour picked up the journal or not.
TheSmaych 9 months ago 2
Wow! This ending is so morally complex that there are literally dozens of legitimate ways to view it....
Having said that, I agree with several people before me who side with Rorschach. While all of the characters are well written and developed, Rorschach was by far the best.
It's almost funny, his death, the death of a single person, was just as affecting as the deaths of 3 million.
1215ra 9 months ago 2
@1215ra Stalin was quoted as saying "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic". In some ways it seems Moore used the death of Rorschach, (as well as focusing on the deaths of all the established 'civilian' characters) to make the tragedy more powerful.
pealand 8 months ago
Laurie is SO ANNOYING!!! Her powers are limited to being super irrational, complaining all the time, and is just an overall bitch.
Night owl is a nice guy, but has no balls and is pretty much just a follower, never taking charge himself. He has even less personality than the brain-dead, emotion driven Laurie, following her around, asking HER "what do we do now?".
Dr. Manhattan is an A. Hole. He kills the only human worth anything in this whole comic book, then leaves for another galaxy.
QU37Z41 10 months ago 2
@QU37Z41
Allan Moore's whole purpose was to tug on all our emotions... I disagree with u, but at the same time I totally understand.
JDezi4BVlog 10 months ago
Rorschach, a paranoid, obsessive psycho is the only human being worth anything in the whole story. The ink blots are objectively meaningless, it's the observer that gives them meaning. Rorschach saw the world a certain way, gave it its meaning and never doubted it. Humanity might be meaningless to the Universe, but it is everything to us. Rorchach never abandoned his humanity.
AWESOME COMIC, THANKS FOR THE UP!!
QU37Z41 10 months ago 4
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QU37Z41 10 months ago
it was better in the movie when he blew up and made a rorchach ink blot
wallace0120 10 months ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Gaaaaboooo 10 months ago
Dr.Manhattan
You bastard you bastard damn you to hell
Optimist117 10 months ago