I didn't like it, to be honest. The opening scene was great, as was the Bob Dylan montage over the opening credits, but I thought it went downhill from there. The sex scene was utterly cringe inducing, and a few of the characters depressingly two dimensional.
Not a big fan of this supposed alternate ending either: the whole idea of the squid was that it was so random, so unexpected, and so "WTH?!" was that it would cow mankind into banding together to face this "outside threat". Manhattan isn't an outside threat, despite his superhuman-ness. He was once American, the US had laid claim to him half-mascot half-ultimate weapon, so I can't help but feel that no matter what he did, even if he were to lay waste to American and Soviet cities alike, there would still be those in the Soviet Union who'd either believe he still had some ultimate US agenda in mind, or simply blame the US for letting him off the leash. But perhaps my view is coloured slightly, as I'm such a huge devotee of the original graphic novel upon which it was based.
sgt.johnkeel wrote:Rorschach is by far my favourite character
Rorschach is the favorite of most people - he has, despite being seriously messed up and probably a fascist at heart, the guy has unwavering principles, some of them ones anyone could agree with and appreciate and he's willing to do just about anything in service to these principles - go to any length. Sometimes that can be a good thing, sometimes bad - but it's hard not to (at least sometimes) admire him for this. Also, the fact that he comes from such a victimized upbringing yet refuses to play the victim is attractive about him, too.
Ozymandias is my favourite, though. With him, you basically have to put together Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and just about every other economic and technological powerhouse you can think of and wrap it in a blond, blue-eyed Aryan superman package. Veidt's businesses are pervasive -- his company has, it seems, dozens of subsidiaries. He has revolutioned auto technology, the energy industry, and who knows what else.
When you basically have a real live superman walking around who is not big, blue, and naked, it doesn't really matter if he dresses in a silly costume to perform feats of inhuman acrobatics for charity, or that he writes best-selling self-help books putting forward techniques to achieve a better life, or has a weird genetically-engineered cat. I think you'd listen to what he has to say. He's another one of the tragically right/damned characters from culture to which I am so often drawn.
