I watch the Watchmen

Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985:
Tonight, a comedian died in New York.

If I may, I'll just cut'n'paste my own review from the forum

Läste ut serien över en veckas tid, gillade den som fasen.
Men att sen se adaptionen till vita duken överträffa det -
ja det var baskemej trevligt. Att slås av den klockrena castingen
(nja ... dvärgen i fängelset var iofs pissdåligt val men kanske dåligt utbud av korta killar)

Vad har vi att göra med? Jo ett comic-epos från mitten 80-tal utgivet av DC-comics
ritad o skrivet av Dave Gibbons o Alan Moore (V for vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

Vi har kallt krig, vi har superhjältar, antihjältar vi har överhängande risk för kärnvapenkrig vi har kommunistskräck, vi har Nixon vid makten för 3e (4e? 5e?) gången i rad.

Vi får flashar av Warhol, Bowie, Kennedy-mordet, vi har underbar musik - Simon & Garfunkel, Dylan, Nena (!), Cohens Hallelujah.

Vi bjuds på (av-)maskerade superhjältar utan mer krafter än sitt civilkurage

Mycket jag kan spåna vidare runt, Rorschach's ständigt skiftande mask. Night Owl's duala natur som ärkemes o atletisk uggle-hjälte.

Ja jag sitter kort och gott igen med känslan efter 2:45 att här har skaparna gjort vad de ska i sina jobb.

10 av 10

What I do miss from the movie though - something that of course might be hard to translate to the screen - is the parallell story going on at the newspaperstand, where a kid reads a comic which is interlaced in the real story. A comic in the comic so to say. The whole story at the newspaperstand is actually left out. As well as the psychiatrists discussions with Rorschach, quite interesting ones in the book but all too short in the film. (Is it just me or does the voice of Rorschach sound hilariously similar to that of Clint Eastwood?)

What I don't really miss but what is a major difference from the paper copy is the ending. In my opinion it gets slightly too simplified - won't spoil it but the paper copy has a more intricate ending.

And as I said, what I really really love is the striking resemblances between the comic version of the characters and the ones on the screen.
Rorschach is brilliant, Nite Owl's glasses as nerdy as expected. Jacobi as sick as one could wish for. Ozymandias as distant and "plastic" as needed.

-We have to compromise! Rorschach
-No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. ...