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    See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    I loved the movie as-is. Any extra scenes will just make it better.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    1-I don't remember if the comic did it exactly like this, but it was perfect; he went down fighting, and I LOVE how they intercut it with him remembering past fights he had in the golden age



    2-Rorschach should have butchered them all
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    Image of Asen Asen
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    How is anyone comparing that to the original scene in the novel? Sure, it's not god-awful, but there's just something off-pitch about it. Still soulless, if you ask me. The music almost ruined it.



    We'll see how it fits with the rest of the film, but I'm not really impressed.
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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    07/13/09

    @Asen: I am with you - the music, the slow-mo, everything adds up to make it overly sentimental and manipulative, something the graphic novel certainly was not.
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    Image of Malfunktion v2 Malfunktion v2
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    Beautiful scene. I can't wait to watch this again next week.
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    Image of Dirk Dirk
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    I think the movie could have been a whole lot better if they had done a better job casting all the supporting characters. So many of them were absolutely terrible actors. Case in point... the Top Knots in this scene. Jesus, did they just get out of acting school?
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    07/13/09

    @Dirk: Probably never been. May have been stuntmen for all we know.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    I didn't miss this scene, to be honest.



    But then, old people murder never did much for me, entertainment wise.
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    Image of Cupajo Cupajo
    07/13/09

    @Cash907Censored: "But then, old people murder never did much for me, entertainment wise"





    Maybe you were just doing it wrong.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    07/13/09

    @Cupajo:

    LOL! Nice.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    That was terribly sad and moving. This one scene captured much of the essence of the original. For those who thought that the film was terrible from beginning to end, it will not save anything. For people like me who thought that it was good but not quite great, this scene is a real improvement.



    I really missed having more of Hollis in the film. The excerpts from his book defined the way the heroes were in the old days.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    It never makes any sense to me when they cut good scenes out of a movie just for time, especially when it is a very long movie.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/13/09

    @reddingofish: As Inigo Montoya said:

    "Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up:"



    $$$ (more showings = more moolah)
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    Wow. That was actually pretty damn heart-wrenching. Seeing him remember fighting actual villains and not just petty thugs... For all the crap that that movie turned out to be, Snyder nailed this scene for what it needed to be.



    See, kids, this is why ROACH exists. Superheroes deserve to be taken out heroically, not years later by random thugs. There's no glory in that.
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    Image of ElimGarak ElimGarak
    07/13/09

    @Smeagol92055: R.O.A.C.H.: Bah! ROACH is nothing besides the Guild of Calamitous Intent! There is a reason by GCI has been the recognized leader in organized havoc for over 90 years.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    07/13/09

    @ElimGarak: Recognized by whom? Before your comment, I'd never heard of them.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    Wow. That was hard to watch. That should have been in the original.
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    Image of NotArthurPDragon NotArthurPDragon
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    And this makes the ending less stupid how? This makes dragging out the death of The Comedian---like all the other "Synder-ized action sequences---no longer a mistake in what way? And I'm pretty sure it doesn't make the script or Malin Ackerman's performance any better, so no, a single scene cannot save a film. That's like saying the proper deck chair arrangement could have saved the Titantic.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    07/13/09

    @NotArthurPDragon: i said it helped. You read my watchmen rants. You know how I feel, don't troll with me today.
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    Meredith Woerner was starred Meredith Woerner was unstarred
    Image of TehLastTimeLord TehLastTimeLord
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    Wow. That was beautiful and brilliant....
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    Image of nekoama nekoama
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    I can't bring myself to watch this. Hollis' death in the book upset me so badly I had to stop reading and couldn't pick it back up in nearly a month. I was actually relieved when I heard it'd been cut.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the director's cut will be the version we all wanted it to be, anyway. I blame studio meddling to cram in more showings.



    Still, I'll be waiting until x-mas to get the sooper-ultra-mega-deluxe edition.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    07/13/09

    @TemporalSword: ha ha sadly I wouldn't go that far. Unless the DVD rewrites the end.
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    Image of JimKakalios JimKakalios
    07/13/09

    @TemporalSword: Actually, the running time was cut to fit IMAX constraints. An IMAX film can not run longer than 2 hrs 38 min. or so. This is what set Dark Knight's running time, and all other films than wish to have an IMAX showing.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/13/09

    @Meredith Woerner: See, now, having a giant, dead squid pop up in Manhattan would have totally taken me out of the moment and made me giggle. I thought the re-worked ending was fine for the medium.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/13/09

    @JimKakalios: Ah, yeah, I forgot about that. And I suppose it's too much effort then to have a different cut for non-IMAX theaters.
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    Image of Stephen Goldmeier Stephen Goldmeier
    07/13/09

    @TemporalSword: I felt the reworked ending could have been fine, but we needed to get a better sense of the carnage and loss. Without the fight near the climax between all those characters we've come to know, without the newsstand man hugging the comic reading boy, without Laurie's line about tandoori to go... you pretty much need all that for the destruction to mean anything, squid or no squid.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    07/13/09

    @TemporalSword: I'm anti squid. Always have been. In all my past posts I always talk about the real problem was the hole in the ground. Not the squid.
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    Meredith Woerner was starred Meredith Woerner was unstarred
    Image of ElimGarak ElimGarak
    07/13/09

    @TemporalSword: Totally - the squid ending would have been too freaky and out of left field. It was too freaky even for the comic book. I liked this ending much more - it was more logical and sane.
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    Image of JimKakalios JimKakalios
    07/13/09

    @TemporalSword: Definitely too much effort. Moreover, if you have a longer film in non-IMAX theaters, it undercuts some, though not all, of the motivation to see the film on an IMAx screen (which has a higher ticket price and presumably a higher cut ot the studio). It is money that drives the running time - though lately with the IMAX constraint, it is no longer the need to get more showings per evening in a regular theater.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    07/13/09

    In reply to See The Moment That Should Have Been In Zack Snyder's Watchmen
    yeah that part made me tear up in the comic. I wish he would have left it in the movie.
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