![]() It just doesn't have the time the graphic novel did, so I guess I don't see a problem with how the film approached that element of the original story. The film has to really pump the gas as far as getting across this conflict between the world as the characters imagine it to be, how they want it to be, and the world as it is. It's supposed to feel like they got what they wanted as "super-heroes" out of the fight, but later, Nite Owl I gets killed as a result. ![]() Nite Owl and Silk Specter basically go looking for a fight, they beat every one up (violently), and they feel pretty great about it. But the film always undercuts these moments later on.Įven the alleyway sequence with all the slow-mo that folks point to. The heroes think they're the heroes, which occasionally bleeds into the narrative. That's a really tough metric for me, because I truly never got the impression that the film was trying to make the violence look cool to the point where it was reveling in it or glorifying it. The fighting could have worked in a wire-fu movie, but here it works directly against the basic theme/concept of the movie itself. The fighting - in a story whose very point is placing "superheroes" in a realistic world - is very different from the comic, much less realistic, much more brutal and gratuitous. In the movie equivalent, I count 43 punches/attacks and lots of 100% successful dodging - making the friends I saw the movie with ask what kind of superpowers they had. In the prison rescue scene, the comic shows Nite Owl and Silk Spectre punching one person, and it's implied that they've hit another. This is pretty typical for how Snyder treats the fighting in Watchmen - what was understated and realistic turns into silly, stylized orgies of violence. In the movie, there's an extended fight with much slow motion where the Comedian throws his cup, then fires a gun, gets slammed into a wall, there's an exchange of 17+ punches, then a brutal knee, then there's more punching including through walls, Comedian gets thrown into a table that shatters, gets thrown around again implausibly far, throws a knife and then another, which is caught and thrown back he picks up a third knife and there's an extended punch/knife-stab fight (from the sound effects, it's another 17 hits or attempts), then the Comedian's hand gets brutally broken(?), he gets slammed through a table, and finally thrown out of the window. In the initial fight with the Comedian, the comic shows a punch and a kick and then the Comedian is thrown out of the window. I'm copying a comment from someone who compared the fight scenes in the comic and the movie:
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