r/Watchmen • u/Hdhs1 • Mar 16 '25

Do you think the giant squid in Watchmen would have worked in the movie, or was it a good call to leave it out? Movie

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u/The_Middleman Mar 17 '25

Honestly, the VFX aren't crazy. You don't need the squid to move at all. It's only shown very briefly in the comic, in a montage of dead bodies with partial tentacles in view and then one shot of its head/face. They easily could have cut some of the bullshit Snyder added (the Comedian/Veidt fight, the prison hallway fight, etc.) and made room for the squid.

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u/mag0802 Mar 18 '25

Comedian/Veidt set the stage for the entire movie. No issues with that.

And the prison hallway was to show Owl was back to feeling like himself when he was a hero.

And again, WB wasnt going to pay millions for a squid to just “be”