Just came back from seeing it.
I'm gonna put a spoiler alert right here. Not gonna pay attention to make sure it's spoiler free, so I might as well.
Vagabond pretty much replicates my feelings.
Everything I have to say about the movie comes from a perspective of someone who has read the novel, so the fact that it was sometimes faithful to the point of reproducing frame for frame was a good thing. I have no idea how someone not familiar with the novel will take the narrative. Even died down as it was, it's a pretty complex story and there are a shit load of themes floating arround.
Absolutely loved the fact that they decided to keep most of the dialog. It was well written and some parts were simply too brilliant to be changed.
Manhattan was the best casting choice of the whole movie, followed by Rorschach and Dan (Nite Owl). Nixon gets a special mention, cause of absolutely hillarious nose.
Loved the new ending, even more than the original. Made a lot more sense.
A few nitpics follow:
The Blake killing JFK thing was absolute bullshit and completely unnecessary;
The thing when Dan was all moved by Rorschach's death although it made sense in the movie, I felt the Dan from the novel wouldn't care so much. It kind of felt like they were all so crazy, they were trying to make Dan "the straight guy", which I felt was untrue to his character;
Rorschach was too emotional. In the novel he was creepy as hell, showing hardly any emotions through the whole course of the novel. As the movie was condensed to only show key aspects of his personality, he was portrayed as a very angry guy. The fact that he hardly (graphically) kicked any ass during the movie didn't help either. If you're gonna have that much violence in the movie, save most of it for Rorscach to help the viewer understand just how fucked up he is.
Hollis Mason suddenly shriveled or something?
Can't think of anything, edit post later.
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