| The_vagabond7 said: I actually thought the same thing for the first bit of the movie, that for somebody that didn't read the comic book this might seem confusing. Namely the opening as it's quickly running through history without ever telling you that it's running through history, or what that history is entailing. And just as a side note, I think it's interesting you found rorschach the only one that was empathizable. Not saying you're wrong or anything like that, I just think it's interesting. Dreiberg (Nite Owl) is meant to be the only semi-sane reasonable person of the bunch that is a genuinely heroic good guy with some sexual issues. And Rorshach is meant to be a crazy murderous right wing psychopath. But even in the book I did empathize a bit because of the occasions where he did exibit some kind of emotion. But I just thought that was interesting is all.
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Well the Ending thing was that unlike in the comic book, Dr. Manhatten destroyed cities all over the world in the movie. In the comic book it was just new york being destroyed and blamed on Aliens. In the Movie numerous cities around the world were destroyed, Tokyo was mentioned but I can't remember the others.
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I think the thing about Rorshach is that he wants to avenge his team mate, which I'm sure most people can identify with (heck, we go to war most of the time because of that). You also feel sorry for him, his situation wasn't his doing and he's just making the best of what he can (which, is being a masked vigilante). I think the end bit was really what made this character great (and easily the best in the movie). It's similar to why I like Batman as a character so much (which is why Rorshachs killings in the movie, whilst semi-understandable, is the only part of the character I found iffy).
Also, the movie portrayed (in my opinion) Rorshach to be a much more stable character then the Comedian (minus the bit about the missing girl of course), so he felt more stable then he actually was next to the Comedian.
The thing about Night Owl is, there's not enough detailing about who he is and what's going on through his head. For me, the only admirable quality he had in the movie was that he understood why things had to happen the way they did. Aside from that, he felt like a character that follows what others do (i.e Rorshach brings him into the investigation, Spectre pushes him to spring Rorshach from prison and he follows Rorshach to antartica), it didn't feel like he had any intiative as a superhero. On top of that, he stole Dr. Manhattan's girl, which is a dog act in most peoples books.
Yeah I'm still not sure how I felt about the cat, its so random that he/she pops up in one scene right at the end like we were supposed to know she was meant to be there the whole time. But I guess the same criticism can be made of the Transformers movie with the cheesy one liners ("You're more than meets the eye").
