re: Movie That Had Great Trailers to movies that ended up as bad flicks.

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Manhattan was the more realistic fill in for the plot device used in the graphic novel

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It's just so dumb to me. What are they going to do? Everyone, but especially the Americans, knows that Dr Manhattan exists outside of space and time. That his godlike powers would allow him to incinerate entire armies with a mere thought. There is no plan of attack or defense. There is no plan of escape. If he is targeting humans, humans are extinct.

The threat had to be something humans could conceivably defend themselves against or, with persuasion, escape to the stars and avoid. It's only important that the world knows Manhattan won't be there to do it for them.

I thought the sex scene in the comic worked because it was 2 pathetic people reaching out in a desperate moment for connection. The movie read as 2 noble but damaged people reaching out, pathetically, for connection. The song was ridiculous.

As for Adrian, it shouldn't be a surprise that Veidt is the villain, it's that his plan succeeds without interruption. But I think it's crucial that we see his machinations all along, that we see the ads for Nostalgia vs Millennium (that get referenced by characters), and that layer was missing from the film - he wasn't *present* when he was offscreen.