Leper Messiah TR said:
with some creative editing it might ;-)

because Moore wrote it that way - blaming Manhattan screws up several characters AND the whole story completely, and as long as that idiocy stays this movie will always be a 1/10 for me

even though the squid thing is possibly a weak point of the graphic novel, but any other solution would be an improvement to Snyder´s ending (even a simple insert saying "missing reel"!)

I'm not faulting the ending in the original comics at all. But it just could not work on film. Film audiences would not accept it, and it wouldn't look good even to those of us who read the comics.

I also don't see how the Manhattan ending screws any characters up. It slightly changes Doc's motivation for leaving Earth, and removes part of the significance of Tales of the Black Freighter, but other than that, what's the big deal?