How many orders of magnitude greater than the recent cinematic attempt?

Many.

chills! stars!

I bet Rorschach is fun at parties

My favorite speech from the whole goddamn thing. I was so *pissed* when I found out they cut the majority of it out of the movie.

Oh well.

Only four stars because they cut the speech in half wtf

A little over-wrought. But he's a dramatic fellow.

What this emphasizes to me was how overdone I felt the movie Rorschach's voice was. It's gravelly. It's not a a fucking consta-growl.

I think someone is mistaken, this isn't Alan Moore doing Rorschach, it's just how Moore usually is.

This is otherwise good text that cannot be read aloud in a non laughable manner.

That voice makes me think we need a kitchen-sink adaptation of Watchmen set in 80's Birmingham and written by Alan Bleasdale.

I'd always imagined Rorschach as having a nasally aspie voice.

Jesus.

I'd been reconsidering my view of the movie's take on Rorschach, which had been wholly positive. Then I started to see that they'd removed a lot of his intensity. In the book, he needs it to explain how a shrimpy, rather ordinary shut-in could be seen as scary and threatening. The movie was like, fuck that shit, let's give him some kung fu.

Now I appreciate that choice much more. They could have played him as an insufferably prattling blowhard with an inflated sense of his own drama. Like they have here.

I always wondered in the end, what they ended up doing with his journal. I guess it will always be open to interpretation. My take was that it got passed around but never taken seriously, except by the conspiracy theory crowd. It would be quite ironic for those people to say "aliens didn't do it!", and maybe in the alternate universe of the Watchmen, people on fark had photoshop contests of his journal with the caption "I want to believe".

Wow.