There is a S.Q.U.I.D in the Watchmen Movie

Thats cool I guess, but doesn't that mean that the squid just ended up changing another part of the movie, LOL. Its cool I don't care what they changed at this point, as long is it is a kick as movie and stays at least some what close to the Graphic novel I will be happy.

Giant alien squid becomes an acronym for a science project. Totally uncool trade-off... A movie about a bunch of dinky super heroes and you're worried about how a giant squid would affect it?

Actually Dr Manhatten is the only element of Watchmen that is in any way "other worldly" until that [frick]ing phsychic 5th dimenstional phalomod turns up! I always thought it seemed a bit out of place in the book and to be honest im glad they replaced it because it would have been WAAAAAY out of place in a movie..[frick] CALAMARI..now fanboys, commence puffing

"Some fans have been up in arms...."
You know what? What the hell? I'm going to go ahead and get up in arms about this. You wanna see crazy, Devin Faraci? You'll get crazy. You know what movie they kept the ending the same as? The Passion of Christ. Watchmen is my Passion of Christ, and the squid is my Jesus. How the hell're you going to do that movie without Jesus? You don't, do you? No, you don't. You might as well crucify me here and now. Toss me into the sea so I can live with the giant squid. It'd be much more pleasant than listening to dull-witted reviewers and "more reasonable fans."

"More reasonable fans understand that a giant alien squid wouldn't quite work in the movie."
Really now? Because I'm pretty effing sure that I've seen plenty of movies with squids in them. You know, I watched this one movie with this guy in blue tights and a red cape. LOL. HE LIKE... STOPPED A PLANE FROM HITTING THE GROUND AND CHUNKED AWAY A HUGE FORMATION OF A MATERIAL THAT HE WAS WEAK AGAINST. LOL HE FLIES. Hell, I thought you could do anything in a movie. I guess more reasonable fans are lacking an imagination.

"But eagle eyed moviegoers" a.k.a. himself. What a cocky prick.

"SQUID, the logo for which is briefly visible."
Yay, an easter egg instead of the correct ending....

"In the film Adrian Veidt and Dr. Manhattan are working together on a project that will replicate Manhattan's energy, providing free and unlimited power to the world."
Taken from comicvine.com; Dr. Manhattan's powers:
Complete awareness and control of basic atomic particles.
• Size alteration.
• Can change the coloration of his skin, as well as the composition of his clothing.
• Density Control.
• Can reverse entropy.
• Precognition/Post cognition (in terms of his perception of time).
• Can augment his strength to unknown limits.
• Does not appear to age.
• Does not seem to require food, water, or air.
• Immortality.
• Invulnerable.
• Can create copies of himself which act independently of each other, but operate in an intelligent collective fashion.
• Creation of Force Fields.
• Can transmute matter into different states or even different types of matter.
• Can create matter.
• Teleportation.
• Telekinesis.
Now, tell me... WHY would he need Veidt's help? He exerts a pretty amazing amount of skill over his own powers and seems to be aware of the potential and manipulation of them.


Only a couple of weeks until the movie. I stand by my opinion. I hope that this movie is still very satisfying for the majority of you though even if it isn't for me. This will be the last Watchmen article I post on until after I've seen it.

Hyson
I think you need to go see a shrink man.
haha
Are you really calling the squid jesus ?

I mean, I'm just as big of a fan as any of you.
And I don't care what you say about my obsession with watchmen, cause you don't even know me.
So you can't tell me you love it more.
But anyways
I can see why they took the squid out.
It makes more sense without it.
I just don't see it working.

davidzuck, if what he needed was half an hour to get the squid, knowing Snyder and from what we have heard he could have cut his slo-mo effects and he'd probably have had more than his 30 minutes needed to develop whatever he wants.

I feel they pulled a DBE on us, look it is a squid, it just evolved into S.Q.U.I.D. now that's lame.

As for Hyson, well many people could get offended with you comparing Jesus to a squid, but everyone can have their own religion and everyone should be respectful of that.

Spoon366, you tell Hyson to go see a shrink, he can believe whatever he wants, as for you... well not only are you judging Hyson for his beliefs, but you are delusionally sure that it makes more sense without the squid in it and I'm guessing you haven't even seen the movie yet, maybe you should be the one sitting on the shrink's couch.

Ror, you'll regret saying that... you will be drowning in calamari soon enough!

OK. Well, at LEAST it's evolved into something. An homage to the actual squid, which, like Ror, I felt it was always out of place, it seemed too fanciful for the Watchmen series and I was somewhat "meh" about the whole thing. I KNOW it was supposed to be "too fanciful" that was Veidt's whole idea, I got that part, I've read the comics and I own to paperback, I know what it was meant for.

As for equating the squid to Jesus, nice move Hyson. I don't mean that in any condescending way whatsoever, just making a statement that, that is a decent and understandable analogy.

I LOVE CALAMARI! It's the bomb. The 5th dimensional phalamoid probably wouldn't be as tasty. Although it is much more colorful, and color does entice hunger. That's a whole different subject altogether.

I thin the thing was, HE didn't need Veidt's help, Veidt needed his, ALSO, if I can so boldly make this "assumption", if Manhattan were to reproduce his abilities in a machine, he would make it as complex as he. I do believe the collaborative efforts are to dumb it down a little for the rest of humanity in case Manhattan "disappeared" as he did, and was nowhere around to explain to people how this machine worked. So, in all, the collaboration, as I stated would be to make t more user friendly and be able to be utilized by us mere mortals as opposed to the all-powerful Dr. Manhattan.

I'm so tired of hearing "you're not a true fan." that's such a ridiculous line people. SERIOUSLY, who the hell are YOU to judge the level of fandom any one person has? Oh, you're just another fan, or more appropriately titled "fanboy".

You are not one to judge the extent of how much someone is a fan of something, because they don't care to see the freakin' squid, seriously? That's absolutely ignorance there pal. You have no say in how much of a fan someone is, YES, if that person is saying they're a fan, yet don't know the last thing about the history of the comic/graphic novel, then ok, judge their fandom. HOWEVER, if it's someone like ME, who read Watchmen in 89, then read the graphic novel just recently, and can tell you what goes on in the story, who the characters are, what the subtext is, knows what the Black Freighter and Under the Hood are, can tell you where Rorschachs mask came from and WHO was wearing giant fake tits in the book is, then I think that makes me a fan. Since well, I know pretty much all you can know about the book by reading it, and I like it and am anticipating the movie, I think THAT makes me a fan. NOT whether some god-forsaken Phalamoid is in the damn movie.

yeah mativ16...who are you to judge? Did good ol' Alan tell you, "yes, you may judge who is truly a fan of my book."? NO! so shut your mouth.

Fandom can't be measured, I know people who buy tons of toys from a series and they know nothing of it (Transformers comes to mind). Does that make them more or less of a fan than someone who has read and watched everything there is of that series?

Every fan has a different experience from whatever it is they follow, it happens in music, in books, in movies, in comic books. Everyone draws on different aspects of whatever they are fans of, anyway I agree with Ion a bit, but like I said I know people that know nothing of a story yet I wouldn't say they aren't fans of it, just that they have a different relationship to the series. There is no such thing as a true fan.

I think that the whole Squid ending was awesome, but I'm also fine with it not being in the movie. As long as the general motivation of Veidt is the same, that's really all that matters, not the actual instrument he uses to go about doing it. In fact, the whole Squid thing is kind of over drawn-out...aside from the short scenes showing it being created in which you have no idea what's going on, you only see the Squid for like a second in the story. It's just suddenly there and all these people die. But in order to get that, you don't need a giant alien squid, Snyder's ending suffices. I'm just saying that a Squid is not needed to really carry out the message of the story...I think people get caught up in the fantastic image of this Squid creature, but the Squid itself isn't important, its what the Squid represents: uniting the human people, thus bringing peace and ending war. If Snyder's movie ending portrays that very important point, that's all that matters. Someone who really understands the novel will be able to read beyond the colorful picture of a squid and see it not for its literal presence but for its philisophical purpose, which can be carried out in other methods. I guess we'll just have to see how the movie pulls it off...

This gives me mixed emotions...

On one side, it means the movie is done by a person who respects the source and recognizes what something like the squid means to a lot of the fans.

However, it also means he knows what the squid means, yet he chose to appeal to the general audience.

Of course the movie does still have to make money, so the general audience is very important...

I guess really all this proves is that I would be a terrible director.

"No falconX2, your conclusion is based on an assumption"

Well duh... :P
I've never had to make a movie, or a movie adaptation.

You think I would hang out on sites like this for movie news if I was involved in the business?...

Jeezus, if any of the movie makers read the posts on here there would be constant news of Hollywood suicides, we put them through the F'n ringer.

Though I am flattered that you apparently think I could be a director... ;)

RE: falconX2

I don't have any particular knowledge of you that you could or couldn't be a director other than your claim that you couldn't be, since that's my only info to go on I'll differ to your conclusion for now.

RE: Quagmire

I'm quite happy the site does so since I'm rather obsessed with this movie (moreso than I have been for anything since LOTR)

Awwww whats the matter fanboys? did the bad snydey widey not put your ickle squiddy widdy in his big movie? Its ok, pick your toys up and put them back in your pram..iv told you time and time again now that he wasnt making this film just for you..."WAAAAAAAA"..now now thats very selfish and unreasonable "WAAAAAAAAAAA"...oh cmon now hes not burning every copy of the book, you still have "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"...ok take your dody now, good boy..its just a little drop of cyanide...

This editorializing really pisses me off. "More reasonable fans understand that a giant alien squid wouldn't quite work in the movie". What an arrogant and condescending thing to say! I was under the mistaken belief that this is SUPPOSED to be a news site reporting straight stories about things related to movies about comic books and their characters, not what some arrogant little fanboy thinks from the depths of his mother's basement. Opinions belong in the comments section following the articles, unless the article is labeled as being an opinion piece.

The correct wording here would be more along the lines of "some fans believe that a giant alien squid just wouldn't quite work in the movie". That is much more truthful and is not condescending towards those of opposing viewpoints.

Anyway, I'm quite reasonable, and I see no good reason why the squid would NOT work in the movie. Why is it "good enough" for a story that has been universally acclaimed since its release 20 years ago but it's not "good enough" for a movie based upon it? It's cute that Snyder called the project Veidt and Manhattan are working on "Project SQUID", but it's not the same thing.

Mmmm...I could argue over the internet...but I have a brain...so, No. Let's stick to commentin on the article

As long as it ends with Rorschach's Journal being at the New Frontiesmen office, then all is well for me.

Shaman, I don't know if you picked up on it, but Snyder didn't say the, "less reasonable fans," bit. That was a comment from some silly reporter at CHUD. Though, I would agree, that is quite the condescending comment. Also, even though we would like to give the general movie-going audience the benefit of the doubt (that they are not dense), I have a hard time doing so. Maybe we live in such different parts of the world that the people surrounding your daily activities aren't 99% idiotic. And personally, I hope the action-movie junkies come out to see Watchmen, because one of a few things will happen. They will either love it for what is, love it for the cool effects (which we know will be there), or hate it because they don't like to think during movies (I HATE WHEN PEOPLE SAY THAT...). Either way, if they go see it, it will help the comic receive more exposure from an audience it would have likely never reached. Meh... Rant over.

This isnt a bid deal. I think the coolest part is how Snyder has supposedly nailed almost every shot, panel for panel from the book. I'll be honest, I wasnt a huge fan of this story, but i never in a million years thought i would see it on the big screen. It always seemed too involved. I'm going to see how he did it. That is what i think will be the most amazing part. Thats just me.