You are given a directive by WB to take out the squid but keep the plot of the comic together as much as possible

You are given a directive by WB to take out the squid but keep the plot of the comic together as much as possible.

What do you do, assuming you have no choice?

replace the squid with a lizard based monster

cuck

Make Rorscharch and Oz into more rounded characters. Remove the slow mo action and sex scenes.

blow up the city with an atomic blast and project a hologram of dr. manhattan super large right after.

jews

I carefully explain why within the context of the 50's the Squid was the only thing possible to achieve the resolution and there are no substitutes.

The same thing Snyder did.

It's not like it's possible to do any better.

You have been killed by a WB hitman.

Continue?

I agree, the only problem with the movie is that almost everything that made Watchmen amazing just doesn't translate to film.

Maybe recreate a few more panels? Did the movie have Ozy throw his arms up in the same way as the comic?

There were definitely a few things that could have done better. They should have toned down the gore, like way down. The comics were not about the gore. And they made every single character into a super strength kung fu shitter, when in the comics there was barely any at all. Also Ozy stupid looking armor in the movie was just horrible. Simply awful. And he looked dumb and acted like he didn't actually care while in the comics he looked like he actually did care.

I do what Snyder did, but have the machines send out psychic waves instead of leaving a crater so there can be a pan over the dead normie characters in a silent Times Square

Look, squid is literally the least of the movie's problem.
The real problem is the movie's weird aesthetic that can't decide if it wants to be dreary or colorful; lack of impact in emotional scenes; and pointlessly added and drawn-out fight scenes.

Example - they replaced iconic introduction that cuts between cops investigating the scene and flashbacks of the murder and ends with the line "ground floor, coming up" with a pointless superhero fight scene.

Also, Manhattan's MAGNUM DONG.

>lack of impact in emotional scenes;
Disagree desu.
Nite Owl being present for Rorschach's death was a huge improvement in the book where it seems like Dan could give a fuck.

*over the book

Most of us can figure out what you meant through context, but if you have to be autistic about correcting yourself, either learn to proofread, or delete your original post to be replaced with the corrected one, you stupid fuck.

It's a giant octopus now.

It's a kid now

It wasn't just that. The thing that got me is how he's constantly sneering and looking over confident and full of himself in the movie. In the comic, Ozy constantly had a very blank, glum, thoughtful face. It makes him seem more intelligent and in control, instead of some rich playboy with a huge ego...

I would have changed the squid to aliens. Which were exactly what the squid was in the original. During the movie I'd have various sci-fi shows in the background, Lost in Space, ET, War of the worlds, Battlestar galactica, etc. Maybe change the pirate cartoon to a Sci-Fi cartoon.


The aliens would be vaguely human-like but also alien. In the end it wouldn't matter, because they're not real, just something Ozymandious did.

I'd also make Ozymandious much more pure. In Watchman, Ozymandious was the Captain America character, he was the good guy of the group who could actually do stuff. Then the twist comes at the end that he was doing bad stuff (for good!). Movie Watchman made Ozy sinister from the start, of course he's the bad guy when Ozy should be the best guy of the movie.

Make it an octopus