they gave him the full post-burton job

zack snyder protip: no matter the situation, its always better with GRATUITOUS SLOW MOTION

i'm pretty disappointed after seeing those clips..

Yeah, it looks pretty tacky. Worse yet is how they are milking every opportunity they get to use special effects. I don't think this is going to translate well at all.

Or maybe I just hate how they are portraying Jon.

NEXT YEAR SHOCKING EPIC MOVIE

DOOM PATROL THE MOVIE

Fuck Dada it's too complicated a concept, let's just have them fight a bunch of communists in lsow motion ~ The Wachowski brothers

actually doom patrol has been utter shit ever since grant left, fuck. ignore that.

Insert a joke about them making a movie of swamp thing and basically making it similar to the hulk movies but he's slightly damp and covered in weeds.

oh hey guess what else they did to fuck over this movie?

removed the death of the first night owl and the subsequent scene where dan smashes a knot-top's head in as a result

the latter scene was added to the script for drama (in the book, he doesn't discover his death and assumes he dies in the SQUID EXPLOSION) but if they're going to remove his death then they should remove the character completely because his death was basically the lead up to the epic scene where all of the reoccurring side characters gather in a cluster fuck of violence and drama before the end. 

it's basically the spark that ignites everything.

I am so happy this isn't british based. because I still have nightmares about the portrayle of english people in v-for-vendetta.

is that really how america sees us???

is that really how america sees us???

as tea drinking haughty assholes with funny accents and jokes about men in dresses?

yes

(in the book, he doesn't discover his death and assumes he dies in the SQUID EXPLOSION)

what? you even mentioned he beats up a knothead.

also you're full of shit DOOM PATROL.

you're full of shit.

fuck you.

fuck you.

man there are things that just do not need to be remade into movies.

what? you even mentioned he beats up a knothead.

Did he beat up a knot head in the comic I don't remember it's been like 5 years.

Either way, in the movie there's the scene where the old man is beat to death by the knot tops (like in the comic) and a scene where Dan finds out and he and Rorschach kick the shit out of a wandering knot-top. 

For whatever reason, that scene was entirely cut from the movie.  Rumor is, the uncut DVD will be like 3 hours long.

yeah its in the comic. also you dont have to spoil giant squid! that part isn't in the movie anyways.

Don't worry; there's supposedly "blue wang" aplenty Naughty.

There's a review from the screening or something where somebody notes "there's also blue penis; never erect."

it's now a 4chan meme.

And as for the alternate ending: I find it much more appropriate. Dave Gibbon's explanation is sound, and personally I find the original ending absolutely ridiculous.

ARGH but it defeats the point!  the point of the ridiculous squid was to trick the world leader's into thinking they were being attacked by outside forces so they could unite as one whole nation (and then rorschach posthumously fucked it up). 

apparently it's just going to be a generic blue explosion.  there has to be a legitimate reason to make Nixon believe the explosion wasn't caused by Russia or an ally of Russia.  Perhaps they'll say it was caused by "terrorism" but as ridiculous as the squid is, it worked completely in the context of the story.

from what i heard its a laser so maybe space alien laser?

Yes I think GIANT LASER is enough to warrant a fear of aliens but the fact that Dr. Manhattan is supposedly on Mars might make things a little confusing. I'm curious whos idea it really was to change it, hopefully they talk about it on the dvd.

Exactly and Manhattan destroys his space castle before he attack is initiated PLUS it's blue and there's only one blue naked glowing guy walking around.

Pretty much everyone knows the ending but the alluring thing is how the ending will actually work given the complications.  Anyways, the squid was in the original draft (according to some interview with Solid Snake and Snyder) but was removed in filming.  The only person who can make drastic changes mid-filming is the producer so blame it on one of these guys:

Wesley Coller    ....    co-producer
Herb Gains   ....    executive producer
Lawrence Gordon   ....    producer
Lloyd Levin   ....    producer
Deborah Snyder   ....    producer
Thomas Tull   ....    executive producer

I don't know much about the biz and I know the studio has a major say in things but I'm sure it ultimately relies on the exec.

Where does that leave the island then? Didn't it only exist to create the squid and the teleportation device used to transport it? Knowledge of the island was used to facilitate the disappearances and deaths of several characters (which also leads to Rorschach's investigation and how he was framed) so it seems like a pretty important plot piece to simply write off without consequence.