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• Brainspore commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  And one of the most important plot points of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is that the main character transforms into a small angry man (not a supernatural beast) who dies in the course of the story. But Alan Moore didn't have any problem playing with that source material (among dozens of others) to pen League of Extraordinary Gentlemen....
• Takuan commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  "just lazy and disrespectful to the material." it's Hollywood, Jake....
• winstonian commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  @ brainspore the difference is that moore made his own original work using the source material. shakespeare stole the king lear myths and transmuted them as well. the difference between shax and moore on one end and hollywood on the other is that shax/moore both had the creative genius to ensure their changes would be alchemy, not butchery. moore's mr. hyde is based on stevenson's, but he is powerfully his own character, and in my opinion the best one in the league. i don't trust hollywood to be able to pull off the same stuff, and would appreciate it if...
• Brainspore commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  I saw the movie last night, and I think they actually did a pretty good job. The new ending makes more sense and kept the story's logic internally consistent. The one change that DID bother me wasn't that they ditched the squid, it was that Nite Owl didn't have a beer gut. But they hit pretty much all the other story elements dead on....
• Tenn commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  Nite Owl didn't have a beer gut Right! Nite Owl was almost hardcore. I didn't much like the new ending- it makes 'more sense' if you're just following the story in a... regular sort of way. But I agree with the squid/foil absurd fear of the unknown etc. I loved the man they chose for Rorshach- when he unmasked I was stunned by how close they got him to the novel version. Except, of course, he's not nearly as reprehensible in the movie as he is in the book- in the book he's got piss-poor hygeine and he's just... more...