Watchmen: Downfall

9:29 pm EST March 4th, 2009 | Comic Books, Movies | 14 Comments

If you haven’t read Watchmen there are spoilers, but if you’re a Watchmen fan, this is pretty funny.

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14 Responses to “Watchmen: Downfall”

  1. Scott Ricketts says:
    March 4, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    This was funnier when it was about the Cowboys losing.

  2. D.R.Scott says:
    March 5, 2009 at 12:02 am

    Raymond Chandler was once asked by a friend, “Doesn’t it make you feel bad when Hollywood does such a lousy job of adapting your novels?”

    “No,” Chandler replied, pointing to the bookshelves in the room. “All of my books are out there. Anybody that wants to see what I really meant to say can read them. I don’t care how bad the movies are because they have nothing to do with what I wrote.”

    After the clumsy failures of From Hell, V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hollywood just can’t figure Moore out. It lobotomizes the work of one of the most intelligent and literate writers in the history of comics.

    So why should Watchmen be any different? In spite of myself, I’m going to see the movie, but thank God the brilliant, Hugo-winning graphic novel will be waiting for me when I get home. After all, the movie’s got nothing to do with what Moore wrote.

  3. Michael Over Here says:
    March 5, 2009 at 4:56 am

    I’ve read the comic book, although I wouldn’t count myself a fan boy. I just got back from the movie and thought the framing Dr. Manhattan thing was a much better choice than some Deus Ex Machina squid. Does anyone have an argument why the squid was better besides that it was in the graphic novel?

  4. ArC says:
    March 5, 2009 at 4:58 am

    Way to spoil the _movie_ ending without remotely hinting that’s what you were doing. Even the YT video itself, on the YT page, at least says what it’s about.

  5. soullites says:
    March 5, 2009 at 8:18 am

    I could really see making a more… photogenic fake alien. But framing Dr. Manhattan? WTF?

    Wouldn’t that basically mean they’d have to use the same plot point twice?

  6. arbitrista says:
    March 5, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Thanks Oliver. You made me spew coffee all over my laptop and now I have to clean it up. Jerk.

  7. Dave says:
    March 5, 2009 at 9:17 am

    Yeah, what ArC says. You should have indicated that there are MOVIE spoilers. I see you on the street, I’m giving you a cockpunching, and I’m gonna do it while wearing a Rorschach mask.

  8. Sean D, Martin says:
    March 5, 2009 at 10:43 am

    ArC: Way to spoil the _movie_ ending

    In a posting that starts with “If you haven’t read Watchmen there are spoilers” I think it’s reasonable to expect there may also be some in the comments.

  9. dr4lom says:
    March 5, 2009 at 11:32 am

    Hilarious… Salon has an article today interviewing Alan Moore. It’s a good read.
    Alan Moore Interview

    I also just want to say I agree with Hitler

    Never thought I’d say that.

  10. Oliver Willis says:
    March 5, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    What part of “there are spoilers” wasn’t clear enough?

  11. Dave says:
    March 5, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    The difference is between between ‘read’ and ‘seen’. I read the comics. I haven’t seen the movie. The video you posted gave no indication that it would reveal the ending of the FILM, which is different from the BOOK. I did not know there was a different ending to the film up until I watched this. I’ve avoided all reviews, and stopped watching the video once I hit the first spoiler.

  12. ArC says:
    March 5, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    What part of “there are spoilers” wasn’t clear enough?

    The part where the spoilers were about THE MOVIE! Did you not read what you just wrote? Where you said “if you haven’t read Watchmen?” Who do you know who “reads” a movie?

  13. Duski Hughes says:
    March 5, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    As funny as that was, it will never defeat ‘Hillary’s Downfall’.

  14. soullite says:
    March 5, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Michael, I wouldn’t argue FOR the giant squid, although it does make a lot of sense. An extra-dimensional alien threat gives you an enemy. If Dr. Manhattan really WERE the enemy, Humanity would have no hope. The man’s all but a god. He makes Superman look underpowered and lame. An extra-dimensional being? there might be hope there. Against Dr. Manhattan, it’s hard to believe that humanity would do anything but shit it’s pants and riot.

    My main problem with it, though, is that it essentially uses the ‘frame Dr. Manhattan’ plotpoint twice. Once to get him off the earth, and again for the catastrophe at the end. That’s just sloppy story-telling. They could have just used a more movie-friendly looking alien.