Why didn't the movie include this scene?

>>92199202
Because the movie was a brushstroke version of the story that foreshadowed Zack Snyder's brutish sense of story as applied to the DCCU.

There's a reason the opening is the best part of the movie. Zack didn't direct it.

>>92199259
Fuck, I wish they adapted David Hayter's script. It was good enough that even Alan Moore clenched his teeth and admitted it wasn't bad.

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I'm more disappointed about this one not being included.

>>92199296
> Instead of the 1985 setting used in the comics, the script takes place in 2004. Whereas The Comedian had fought in World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam, Hayter has it stated that Blake fought in the last days of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and Iraq. The United States' conflict with Russia is changed to one with Afghanistan, and all references to the Communists are replaced with Middle Eastern terrorists.
This makes Veidt's plan a thousand times more retarded.

>>92199558
Is it really? All the paranoia over the Middle East crisis leading to World War III was a big thing back in 2004. And unlike the Soviet Union, the crisis is still a thing so you can tap into that and modern audiences will still be unnerved.

>>92199202
Because the movie was already 3hrs long.
Hell the ultimate edition added like another hour and it still wasn't everything.

I mean it's a nice moment, but just some we're more priority.

>>92199636
Yeah but every complaint about Watchmen (and most comicbook movies) is it being innacurate in adaptation.
People have spent over half a decade bitching cause it used Manhattan bombs instead of spacesquid and you think they'd be fine with a movie setting being decades different?

>>92199636
Creating a false flag terrorist attack to unite the world and prevent nuclear war is something that has the possibility of working. Creating a false flag terrorist attack to unite the world and prevent terrorism is retarded on every level.
>>92199655
Yeah, adding a minute to a 3 hour long movie would just be too much. Also if you don't understand the importance of the scene you really shouldn't be posting in this thread.
>>92199719
People don't bitch about the movie changes because they're inaccurate, they bitch because the changes were stupid. The spacesquid is a OCP, humanity doesn't know if more are coming or what the capabilities of the squid are. Humanity unites because they don't know what the fuck is going on and so long as Ozy remains alive he can keep throwing 'aliens' at them and giving them a reason to stay united. Doctor Manhattan is a know threat, the world has had decades to understand that Dr. M is a god and there is fuck-all they can do against him, if he's lost his mind and is blowing up cities then there is no reason for humanity to unite because we're all fucked anyway, may as well just nuke everything.

>>92200415
The squid monster is fucking stupid. The entire cold-war ending false flag plan is obviously really stupid in hindsight given what we know now, but the squid itself is a special kind of Moore-brand retarded. His entire plan disintegrates as soon as DNA testing is introduced and people realize the Squid is just a chimera made from Earth animals. He's gonna have a hard time explaining why the squid''s brain is genetically identical to human brain tissues and the rest of its body shares as much DNA with people as the rest of the animal kingdom does given it'd "alien" origins. Or the fact that a boat full of scifi writers and artists told they were designing a creature for a "movie" mysteriously explodes killing all of them, not a single one of those artists or producers or writers called home or told anyone what they were working on, only for a giant squid matching their work''s description to mysteriously appear following their sudden death?

Ozymandias being the """"SMARTEST MAN ALIVE"""" could have just engineered the economic collapse of the Soviet Union if he wanted to prevent WW3 with significantly less effort and loss of life.

Rorshach''s testimony itself is spurious but Ozy left a massive trail of bodies that, combined with the testimony, makes it pretty easy to pin on him.

Alan Moore is a crazy, volatile English hack whose recent works such as Neonomicon ( HORKKKKKKKKKK) and Jerusalem point to Watchmen being so profoundly successful more as an accident than anything else.

Ozymandias is the single biggest reason in comics why authors need to stop writing "super-genius" characters. A dumb person can write a guy who''s really strong or can fly, a dumb guy can't write someone who''s supposed to be a genius- let alone the smartest human to have ever lived- without it looking fucking stupid.

Watchmen is a """"deconstruction"""" that falls prey to all the lame shit Moore was trying to mock because he realized he couldn't do any better himself

>>92200941
Dude, you don't realize that the squid thing was silly on purpose? The fucking book is about showing how stupid and psychotic people would have to be to be "superheroes" in the real world, and Ozymandias is no exception.
It was a silver age-esque evil plan. Watchmen is a meta-comic. You're not supposed to take stuff simply on a surface level.