>>Snyder’s decision to forego the squid makes it more likely >>that audiences will be able to identify, understand and >>hopefully open up a discussion about the moral dilemma Alan >>Moore presents in “Watchmen” — and not just write it off as >>“that superhero movie with the big squid.” > >Certain things work well in comics, but don't in movies. >
I think the argument is "why wouldn't it work". You can't blame an outsider audience because Watchmen is the book that acted as a gateway to hundreds of thousands of people who never read comics.
>I don't see how suddenly the whole idea of the world coming >together is lost because a space squid is taken out. >
People unify against the "other". That's what the monster represented.
>If 10 of the worlds cities got Hiroshima'ed, especially in a >post 2001 world, your trying to tell me the audience wouldn't >get it? Or feel why the would would come together? >
Dude's plan was to prevent the nukes from flying. Nuking everything himself kinda...doesn't make sense.
And everything we've seen post 2001 actually shows that the world definitely wouldn't get unite. > >But a giant purple alien squid would? LOL >