Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan's backstory 

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yup

was just about to post that, one of my favorite quotes

Goes hard

Music is perfectly fitted too.

Wally looked more like he was looking at an inevitable car crash, rather than giving farewell to his friend

@@pablofernandezcasas2973 I mean he wanted to be around people before he died, that's why he screamed "don't leave me" when Jani left

one in a lifetime opportunity, hes a scientist after all

@@feYslYa That's more acting like a psychopath, not like a scientist.

@@eccentriconyt only if he set it up

I just now realized , this is suspiciously similar to the Philadelphia experiment , I learned about as a kid, wow....I wonder ? if this was inspired by that ? ...it just occurred to me.

This has had me wondering if a human could do something like that after death since I was introduced to this story

That he partially reassembled by the fence, then second floor then cafeteria shows that he wasn't reappearing in the same spot...

Imagine how long or short it felt for him. Or it didn't feel like time existed at all. Like how when you're so focused you look up and realize "Holy crap, it's time to go home from work." Except he never has that realization.

@@jasoncalvetti1983 it just shows his immense intelligence as well. If this option is available to other humans after death which I imagine it is, my guess as to why nobody else had done or been able to do it in all that time is because you would need to have a complete knowledge of the human genome/DNA sequence and the ability to actually reassemble an entire being from the ground up once again with nothing but your mind. So a lot of human consciousnesses have probably tried but due to not having the knowledge needed or the ability to reconstruct themselves perfectly they're eventually just like "ah screw this" and move on the afterlife. So the fact that Osterman was able to do it alone shows how smart he is

I mean, it's not exactly "oh she abandoned him", more like "ok, i don't want to see my husband fucking die without being able to do shit!" but still, i get the joge.

@@leonardocamilio1206 Osterman literally said “don’t leave me” or something along those lines. She basically ignored his last wishes

@@bryantan4228 i mean, yeah he did that, but in this situation it's just too complicated and you just don't know what to do and what you are doing, you either leave crying, stay watching without saying a word or doing anything or you just get completely insane and emotional, or something else. When you *know* the person you love/like/are a friend will die in seconds in a terrible and unexpected way, shit is just complicated

@@leonardocamilio1206 Which is why he picked Silk Spectre. When Dr Manhattan had a crisis, Silk Spectre could have run away and curled into a ball and started crying. Dr Manhattan understands that he might be immune to all physical harm, he needs someone by his side when he has a psychological crisis. Even if he’s not fully conscious of this weakness, this is something he gets at a subconscious level: that underneath the god he’s just a man

@@leonardocamilio1206 That's just an explanation for why she abandoned him.

It's deeply disturbing, but not because of how it's delivered, but instead the wider context behind it

@@starhalv2427 That's why its so good.

later he said, that he said god exists and he is American

@@DiaJasin I mean that in the context of Cold War, it sound a lot like a threat directed towards the Soviet Union.

It's even better when the person who supposedly said it reveals he was misquoted. What he actually said was "God exists, and He is American."

USA#1!

It was the height of the cold war. Guess you weren't paying attention to the movie.

Actually Superman is Kryptian. He just landed in Kansas for some reason.

@@icytea5 at school shootings it's is #1

@@HybridSpektar I believe it is referencing the Superman in German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche’s book “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, with the superman being the next stage in human evolution, not the Superman from comics.

he is now. He never used to be

@@23bobjr yes he did

@@standarduser7105 Zack Snyder had a hand in Princess Mononoke?? There is no way

Till this day I still wonder why people hate him

@@standarduser7105 What ?

Everything was literally right out of the comic book minus the ending. Which even then using Doctor Manhattan’s power instead of faking the whole alien attack makes more sense

​@@rusty7984 The main thing Snyder got wrong was having Laurie and Dan kill the knotheads in the alley, etc. Doesn't differentiate them from Rorschach. He also got their tone wrong - Dan in particular isn't supposed to come across as cool. But generally I agree that it's a quality adaptation.

Alan Moore was referencing the original Charleton Comics character Captain Atom, who got his powers when he was accidentally trapped in a nuclear missile he was doing last minute repairs on and atomized, and then reassembled himself by force of will back on Earth. Moore's original plan was to use Charleton characters that DC had acquired to tell his story, mainly the Blue Beetle, Nightshade, Captain Atom, and The Question. When DC vetoed the idea (already having other plans for some of the characters), Moore created Night Owl, Silk Specter, Doctor Manhattan, and Rorschach to replace those characters. But, yeah, lots of accidental power-gaining circumstances seemed distinctly unpleasant. Barry Allen: struck by lightning and hurled into a shelf full of forensics-related chemicals, becomes The Flash. Jim Corrigan (easily one of the worst ones): shot by gangsters, stuffed in a barrel that is then filled with cement and dropped into a river, actually dies, is sent back to Earth bound to the archangel Raguel "unto whom is given the Wrath of God" and becomes The Spectre (basically the single most powerful superbeing in DC comics that regularly interacts with Earth, but also plagued by the Wrath constantly urging him to use that power to wreak vengeance for crimes great and small). Carter and Sheira Hall discover they're the reincarnation of two beings fated to be reborn, find each other, fall in love, and be murdered, endlessly, throughout history: become Hawkman and Hawkwoman (using scientific and alchemical knowledge gleaned from remembering thousands of past lives). The list goes on. Even a number of origins that don't give powers (only motivation to become a hero) really suck. Obvious first choice: Bruce Wayne sees his parents murdered in front of him at the age of eight, leading eventually to him becoming Batman.

I'd rather be the Hulk though.

@@soklot so u wont be completely op

@doesitmatter itdoesntmatter Because he's not really main stream like Superman or Iron Man, would love to see a movie on him though.

@@shmodayoda7836 Green PP Vs Chrome PP

This whole movie is, one of my all-time favorites. So many great scenes.

@@danovichi It's one of my all-time favorites, too.

Lol when Zack did it or when Moore and Dave Gibbons did it originally?

@@LordMoebius Art doesn't equal originality. You'd know that if you knew a slightest thing about human history.

I have no clue how anyone can hate this masterpiece.

To consider it the best comic book adaptation you have to had read the comic book that "adapts" first.

@Rollz but to call it a "good" or "bad" adaptation, you need to have read the source material. Without it, you can only call it a good or bad movie, but not judge the quality of the adaptation itseld

People hate it maybe because the ending has plot hole

@@49Shadow please explain

@@stickybruh_vfx2425 If i am not wrong the explaination that i read might be like this, Dr. Manhattan is or like American property right? the ending shows us that Dr. Manhattan is blamed to blow up every entire important city in the world like Moskow and NYC, If Dr. Manhattan is American Property doesn't mean The US Gov. Should responsible for the Dr. Manhattan action too? Instead we got that every leaders of the world agree to blame Dr. Manhattan for the action. CMIIW.

Congrats, you can read a basic scene. Why do you think we see her crying in the hallway, because she missed the discount on the Deluxe Toaster ?

​@@devilsadvocate2643theyre not mainly talking about her smartass theyre talkiny about the effect her leaving had on manhattan permanently

Funny that you mentioned that because in the story arc Dark Knights: Death Metal, there’s actually an Batman from the dark multiverse that became Dr. Manhattan.

Until their universes crossed over in the comics.

Not...too funny, actually. Watchmen has about as much to do with those as Spider-Man has to do with Mickey Mouse. Please don't get crossover desires in your head; it would dilute the quality of the better work.

I thought Dr Manhattan became the creator of this universe with superman and Co.

@@wj3186 they arealdy had some.

@@wj3186 They already crossed over in the comics.... You mad bro?

Zack Snyder’s Justice League was great.

Won't work. The characters don't translate well to live action because they are too basic. They have too few flaws and vices by which any story can progress (their problems typically being external threats they face). That's the difference between the characters that are entertaining and the ones who are not. There is some socio-political relevance to that too, I have noticed.

@@MrImastinker Not really. In my opinion, it was bad to mediocre at best. I really don't understand the hype for it.

@@wj3186 It isn't even that, it's that Snyder and co.'s solution to the fact most DC characters were virtually templates you can give any number of additional traits to as needed was to make them as edgy as they could without nudity and excessive cursing. Look at the DC Animated Universe, with JLU, the superman series, the batman one, they can clearly make complex characters from these templates. The solution, though, is not to do everything in your power to make Batman the Punisher, and give Superman a God Complex.

@@theendersmirk5851 Snyder’s Superman does *not* have a god complex. People in the DCEU push that image onto him, while he’s just an insecure farm boy trying to do the right thing. As for Batman, Snyder had the balls to ask, “What if Batman started to lose his way?” He tried something different with the character. And of course the whole point of said arc was Batman realizing he’s losing it, and mending his ways by the time JL comes along. And I mean the *real* JL, movie, from this year. Not that botched, studio-mandated abortion from 2017.

Wtf bruh 😂

😂

Oh my god THAT'S IT. 15 years have been since I asked myself for the first time, 'how does she know?'

Somebody had to comment about the wiener ....everybody is looking for that scene...not Mr, I was commenting bout a friend

It's honest and true.

Yes I don't get why people hated it! Only a 6.9 on IMDb! It is on the same level as DARK KNIGHT

@@user-jn7bq8wh1e Its a way better than a Dark Knight

@@user-jn7bq8wh1e bro what?💀

@@user-jn7bq8wh1e I wouldn't go THAT far lol... But it's still really good

@@user-jn7bq8wh1e they're both good

None like him? You should be more open minded.

@@ForwardTu he is, there is nobody like anybody

It's not real

@@netcurtains dawg he knows

@@netcurtains it must really suck to be utterly unable to suspend disbelief

@@netcurtains learn to enjoy life a little

@@TacNuke951 balderdash

Most of the dialogue is ripped straight from the graphic novel though

@@masonlund8715 lmao straight up, everyone praising Zack as if any of the good parts of this movie were his original idea

@@gaborikrules so you saying that everyone would have come with the same vision and felling as Zack in this scene just because it was from the comics? cuz yeah,they should have hired a random guy to direct the movie them, i mean,hell yeah, like everybody could transmitter the same exactly feeling that this scene had in the comics right? you are a genius

@@gaborikrules a good percentage of films are from books. Frankenstein, grims book, etc.

@@masonlund8715and? Is that the filmmakers’ fault?

This scene should play the Joker.

Now now let's not get ahead of ourselves...

Also the fluffer for Dr. Manhattan needs some kind of award too.

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Yup

If you don't understand yet, you will one day. There's a place where you can stand and you will see it. It's waiting in front of you.

It is also a reference to the doomsday clock, implying that humanity is about to annihilate itself as the climax of the cold war, which is the point of the movie: how much impact can superheroes really have, and is it worth it? Read the comic and Moore's commentary on it, the movie is very faithful to it and it is amazing how many details and references there are in both.

I think he’s more anti hero than hero. But basically neutral in most cases

@@karolbonner6937 I agree. He can be both if he wants, he can do whatever he wants he is freaking Dr. Manhattan.

He's over powered but I don't think he's the most over powered hero ever created simply because Franklin Richards exists

​@@nicholaskhanyola989 Ok Franklin Richards is powerfull but Dr Manhattan omg this guy is beyond powerful, he created an entirely new DC universe, It exists in the past, present and future, and can create an infinite number of copies of itself, each of which has the same power

@@homer700 The entire current Marvel Multiverse was created by Franklin Richards and he was a kid when he did that. Not to discount Dr Manhattan because he's ridiculously powerful but idk if he's as powerful as a fully powered Franklin Richards.

dork

Zack didn't write the script, nor did he act it out. He put people in stupid situations and jump cut until the audience was nauseated. The writers and actors deserve the praise, it's like praising the conductor of a 100-person orchestra instead of the actual artists; it's giving all credit to the talentless while ignoring the talent.

watch it again

@@xelgodis80085 Does its occur to you that Directors work with the script writers?

Read the original comic.

I came looking for any comment that would properly acknowledge the music. And yes, the way the ominous serenity of "Prophesies" moves into the magnificence and dread of "Pruitt Igoe" is just an inspired choice.

extremely well spotted. What a cool detail.

Its a comic book buddy

Series was way too woke for how beautiful this universe was supposed to be. Hopefully, it will be forgotten. Not canon.

@@Alnivol666 wasnt the whole point of the graphic novel to deconstruct super heroes and make them look ugly? You might wanna read up again, you are spouting nonsense :D

@@ich3730 Huh? What the hell are you on about? GTFO. I am taking about how shit the HBO series is. So have no idea what you are talking about.

Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass

​@@JamesEvans97I've still have the original film on DVD awesome!!! 💯👍

Except this is Billy Crudup narrating. You fail.

Same man. This movie is a gem. And the 001 reveal was insane.

@@dirt_xo So true. His story goes back to 1959, and he has involvement in the 80s. Is that a coincidence with Stranger Things?

@@quinzerrak4975 Just a coincidence.

watch the movie

@@Bsantana1989 thank you Capt Obvious. You saved the city! This isn’t what I want. I’m talking about the events from his return in the cafeteria to the day he became a superhero.

@@Legba85 Watch the movie.

@@dropkickirish4449 you too huh? I have watched it. I’ve watched it multiple times! I’ve read the graphic novel too!! While both were satisfying, it didn’t answer my question.

watch the movie

He's Saitama and strongest Goku combined in one body

He would tear Superman to atoms in a split second

@@EkardRimidalv anyone not only superman

@@nishan2184 I know

@@nishan2184 That's why I said Superman, since Superman is basically a God

That's all you got from this? lol wow

She didn't have the strength to watch the love of her life die. We never know what we're capable of until the situation arises.

@@lavinder11 Simp

@@codybaggett5329 Simp

@@codybaggett5329 imagine if she stayed. Watching such a horrible tragedy would've given her a lifetime of nightmares.

A right-wing director adapted a very very very very leftist author, it's why the movie seems conflicted, for example by kind of gloryfying Rorshach which is not the point of the comic book. I also find the imagery way too clean, for example every women in every scenes are very strongly made up, I mean, I have nothing against a made up woman, but a perfect make up each time a woman is on screen ? Feels unnatural, the movie looks like a porno.

​@@Pordrackthe movie is badass and it's fun to watch. no, I'm not missing the point of the original comic by saying that.

How so?

LUCIFER>

True

this movie shits on the source material, snyder fucked up the only thing the novel was about.

@@ich3730 It's called an adaptation, uneducated villager.

@@ich3730 a movie doesn't always have to be the exact same as the movie, usually with superheros it never is, because telling the same story people have already seen would be boring as hell

@@ich3730 And that is?...

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@Nirbhay Sarvahi bruh it's an adaptation of a comic book that was a critique on superhero tropes 🤦

@Nirbhay Sarvahi Yes, but are also permanently saddled with "blue balls" so it seems.

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Eh, he’s good at copying and pasting existing works while making minor tweaks to them. But tell him to make something original and he sharts out a violent, dark, disgusting mass of fecal matter.

@@MrPjw5 exactly. This is essentially just making as exact of a copy of the original chapter in the comics down to the words and visuals. Snyder just didn't have such an exact and marvelous source material to work with on his other, lesser movies.

@@alucard347 THANK YOU 🙌 It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who realizes this about Snyder. He’s a great visual stylist, for sure, which has served him well for films like Watchmen and 300. I doubt anyone else in Hollywood could make adaptations of them as well as he did. But give him the opportunity to do something original and he produces subpar films like Sucker Punch and (dare I say it) Man of Steel. A big reason why Watchmen is as well received a film as it is has to do with the fact that Snyder changed very little of its main story. He literally used the comic panels as a storyboard in pre-production. Again, not hating on the guy; he clearly has talent. Writing just doesn’t happen to be one of them.

@@MrPjw5 He is the only man i'd trust to do a book adaption of a series, he is really good at adapting stuff.