ChainsawAsh said:
Some of the non-original music (Ride of the Valkyries, Sounds of Silence and Halelujah mainly) just didn't work for me
That was another thing I thought about listing among my dislikes, but decided to let go of. A lot of it just felt out of place, didn't work so well, and in the case of Ride of the Valkyries and Halelujah, it actually turned the scenes into almost a bit of a parody of themselves. I appreciate a sense of humor on behalf of the film makers, but in these cases I think it detracted from the film.
Taolar said:Last night it felt a little too graphically violent, but when I flipped through the graphic novel today I remembered how violent the comic really was. It's funny how getting a little older can make me more sensitive to this stuff. Also the sex scene is probably a little too explicit, since it is definitely tamer in the comic. And while I really applaud the studios for not changing Dr. Manhattan's image, there is at times a distracting amount of blue dong. This is without a doubt an R-rated movie.
Yeah, the book was violent, so I certainly expected the film to be. I went to see this at an afternoon showing, so the theater was pretty sparsly filled. As I mentioned before, mostly young white guys, but there were a few women in the theater. After some of the especially violent scenes with Rorschach, I heard quite a bit of nervous laughter and giggles in the room, especially from the women in the room. Even with such a small population in the theater, I noticed three people or so get up and leave the theater right after Rorschach's meat cleaver scene and never come back.
I liked the scene from the book where Rorschach cuffs the guy up, sets his place ablaze with him in it, and cooly walks away, better than the more graphic scene in the film. Leaving the guy to burn to death was more cruel, and almost more shocking than the meat cleaver.
I'd also have to agree with Taolar about the sex scene in Archie, it goes on forever, and is a bit too much. I am not really a prude, it is just I don't feel the need for long winded sex scenes slowing down story for the sake of showing a bit of boobage. Boobage is cheap, and in this day and age, anyone who feels the need for it knows where to find it.
And finally, I agree on the blue dong as well. I feel no need for staring at another man's bits. I too am glad they stayed true to the book, but in the book it was nowhere near as distracting as it is in the film, usually it was just a tiny blue silhouette and in a small panel of the pages of a comic book. In the film, it is a big blue penis flashing around on giant screen. I wouldn't have faulted them if they had felt like changing that bit. I am still grateful they put pants on the Spartans in the film adaption of 300 though.